I don't have any definitive answers and whatever I got is hard to articulate. Personally I've been feeling somewhat like an old turd surfing the toilet flush. Or like I was cursed with mental constipation and a bad case of hemorrhoids (maybe even a fissure). Either or, I've been sitting on that toilet for far too long and keep pressing and pressing, but I keep pushing air. As a matter of fact my digestive system has grinded to a halt. Granted, something will happen eventually, it always does, nonetheless I'm postive I'll be wiping blood. So I'm anxiously reaching for the toilet paper and hope at least it's going to be fresh.
Sorry for being heavy on the scatalogical analogies, but now the damage is done and I'm not able to unflush that toilet. In all seriousness though, I think the lack of engagement is just part of the general psychosphere. War, famine, pestilence, death. Not necessarily in that order and more like a general vibe. That and the ever decreasing attention span of the digitally demented, scrolling headlines on their smartphones without ever reading the articles. I don't blame them either. Heard somewhere insanity is really just a natural response to an unnatural situation. Like being bombarded with endless amounts of information, on top of just living regular life. More or less. More less in my case, which is why I'm writing long wided replies in the first place.
In terms of technical issue I'd say steemit tends to be a little too complicated. Or at least there aspects that aren't exactly newcomer friendly. imho one way to do it would be to make commenting free of charge, but that's just be me spitballing. Generally speaking though most people wouldn't even know how to buy crypto in the first place and they're making it harder each day. I was converting some of my steem the other day and it took me like half an hour and I had to use like 10 different passwords and keys. I'm probably doing it wrong, but then that would underline the point. I don't know how to do it right.
And if you did not smile this is an eyeopener for the Steemit Team
Thanks!
I was looking into Blurt on the side a while ago and concluded it's even worse, as an example of on what not do. Turned out that everything costs money, even looking at your wallet it seems. I made a few cents with some comments but then realized I couldn't even claim my own rewards because I was out of juice. This might keep the bots out, maybe, but you also limit your user base. For me that fruit isn't worth the sequeeze. Like you can't make everything about money and then wonder why everybody is just treating it like that. Not talking about you Kitty, I mean those kind of sites.
I starte at weku. No idea if they still exist it was the same abracadabra as here although easier to post and comment but no way to lay hand on the weku (they didn't pay out back then).
There are more platforms working this way but I have strong doubts if it fights bots. Steemit had an easier way to buy/exchange but those ways are gone. I used blocktrades.us but it gave up because of all those rules. There was also one before that (I forgot) but I believe I had to swap twice as well. It was the first time I tried with the help of a Dutch lady explaining to me how or what and she was surprised that I asked and didn't know after more than a year (perhaps longer) on this platform.
I never was active on Blurt only heard people talk and praise it into heaven (or perhaps they got paid for it if I joined) and next I heard they didn't do well. It sounds more like a short program like noise.cash once was which I joined for a blue Monday but it brought me nothing. Kind of fake X idea
I remember that as I started here I could:
and that was it. If it comes to it its enough to start with and prepare for the next post (I always write offline) and think about what to answer. What I was warned for was to only redeem the rewards once per week or month because that takes SP so setting it immediately is a waste of SP so is editing content (takes SP as well).
This is how I worked (see above) and still work (except I post in the end which isn't a good idea) and it did give me time to find the right people to engage with.
you can't make everything about money and then wonder why everybody is is a good one to remember (don't worry I wasn't thinking you meant me) but here we also see the other side: even if money is offered people don't show up so what is left is your other options.
Constipation issues:https://www.natuurlijkvoordeel.nl/wapiti-darmfunctie-complex?manufacturer_id=30
flushing the toilet is hard?
boiling water in the pot for 15 minutes
1 cup baking soda
1 cup (just hoppa in the toilet) vinegar
You talked about bitvavo in the other post. The german domain was taken down a while ago. To their credit they handled it like gentlemen, but it still illustrates a general vibe of uncertainty. Fair enough I guess, it's crypto. Then again that's why I'm pessimistic about it going mainstream, because it's a pain in the ass (the kind not even baking soda and vinegar will fix). Like those mandatory hostage videos meant to validate withdrawals, just to receive a snotty response inquiring your financial intentions. Is this a prank? No, that's just how "licensed" exchange operate now apparently.
On a happy note, bitvavo got reinstituted eventually under the hype umbrella and gave their old userbase a bonus, but the future remains uncertain. Nobody knows what kind of 1984 wannabe Brazil horseshit might be legislated tomorrow, and so it goes. Just waiting for a spit sample and that pubic hair super magnification validation app. But I'm rambling.
I'm using mexc.com to sell steem. Basically you're just exchanging it into USDC but german exchanges don't like it so you've got to exchange that into something else, too. At least it works. For now.
PS: The thing about using a handler. Fuck that! Maybe those were well intentioned offers, but that's setting yourself up to get scammed. A while ago you mentioned the rights issue regarding sub ownerships, I think context of creating one. The original creator goes away, you take over and invest a lot of time, then the guy comes back and just claims it. Someting like that, right? That's what this reminds me of.