RE: Steemit Proves: Friendship Is More Important Than Money! And there IS Intelligent Life Out There!!!
Thank you again for this great article. It's always wonderful to refresh the feed and see a new @brainnipper post.
Your first steps described very well how I felt when I started here. "Bitcoin? Yeah, I heard about that. How that works? No clue...".
I simply liked the idea when I heard about steemit. The platform where creators and curators are being rewarded for their content. Sounded too good to be true but hey, why not give a try?
I already started a blog years ago but quit because of a lack of interest. And my time was too valuable for also getting nothing back.
Don't get me wrong I didn't want to become rich but just like the steemit slogan says "my word was worth something". What ever that amount would be.
In fact the whole crypto and blockchain "thing" was a bit scary to me at the beginning because I didn't know anything about it. And that's why it's also hard for me to motivate friends to join the community. When they start asking details and I explain some of them they are like "Oh dear, this sounds very complicated. That's nothing for me".
I can understand the feeling being frustrated when a very high quality post gets a few cents and a trash post a 100$ upvote but even if I earn a few dollars I think about it this way.
On one side I'm still new here. A month is nothing. And on the other side if I would have started a blog like I did and a YouTube channel guess how much I would have earned there? Right, nothing.
The community itself, the people I'm talking to every day have become the most valuable thing for me and I'm so happy I joined them.
"Thank you again for this great article. It's always wonderful to refresh the feed and see a new @brainnipper post."... My face is getting a bit red right now! ^^
Somehow this "friendship/money thing" with Steemit is hard to grab. But my conclusion is, it is difficult here to earn something without making friends. So in some way it is mainly about community. When I see stupid posts earning lots of money, I think: okay there are also communities inside of the community and there are some I don't want to belong to. ^^
Awe how cute^^ Yes that is definitely correct that even trash content needs its community. I see here a lot of spammers and people plagiarizing stuff. And that is something you will definitely make no friends with and also won't earn money with.
In fact the chances are even higher being reported / flagged and then even the two cents self upvote are gone.
I guess we have to build our own little eco-system inside of this bigger eco-system. (I love this term, thanks @surfermarly!^^) Of corse we will build a good one! :-)