RE: Does Steem Suck? Let Me Tell You How I Really Feel...
While probably many other people really quit Steemit.
I also thought about it, because I I am on Steemit for more than a year (since 2017.05.17) and almost no one (only a few people) cares about my posts and I rarely get comments. Especially real, good, meaningful comments. Most of the comments are spam or spam-like. And most of my posts are only making a few cents, no matter what I do, what I post, what I write about, how much time, work and effort I put into the posts.
So yeah, Steemit is suck. Or at least the community. But not Steem itself. That's just a cryptocurrency. And a very good and fast one, actually (no transaction fees, 3 seconds transaction time).
Yesterday I changed my mind about quitting. At least temporarily. I decided to give more time to Steemit and I also decided to be more consistent/active by trying to write daily blog posts.
How easy would it be to gather readers if you'd setup blog on some more traditional site? Honest question that I'm interested to hear answer to. When everyone tries to be a blogger here, there's just not enough readers and even if there were, not all bloggers will make the cut anyway, it's just the harsh truth.
But we do need to improve our efficiency on finding new and promising bloggers, that's for certain, it just isn't worth it for smaller SP holders as curation rewards are really low for them and bigger ones are too few and they can just choose to sell their votes for bigger return on investment. So if there were one problem I'd fix is the distribution. Too few hold too much and the power within the platform isn't utilized thanks to it and it is very sad to see.
"How easy would it be to gather readers if you'd setup blog on some more traditional site?"
Honestly? It depends on the site, but I wrote a blog about Ubuntu on the Hungarian Ubuntu website and I had readers and people commented on my posts. Nowadays I am not so active on it (I wrote my last blog post on that site on 2018.03.22).
Okay, I didn't earned a single cent with it (directly from it), but I had readers and real good, meaningful comments and since that's a community site, there are several bloggers on the website and they also have community activity on their blogs.
I also wrote a blog on Blogger, where Adsense can be used and I used it.
I was not so active on that blog, but I earned a few cents with it. Most of the readers came from the above mentioned Ubuntu website, because I mentioned my blog there.
There are other sites, where you can write a blog and get readers relatively easily.
For example HUP (Hungarian Unix Portal) or WSPRnet.
These are just two examples and the statement about the community are also true for these sites. You just have to find the proper websites.
I'd guess it would be a lot easier to find audience, when you're writing about certain topic, on a website where people interested about it gather around
Steem ecosystem is small, certain tags do better, but it requires either connections or truly interesting content for wide audience to garner good traction just like in any other place.
Somebody could build or link websites with specific interest to Steem reward system, then it will make it easier for writers from that group to gain readers and meaningful interaction but now it's hard when everyone is competing with everyone else for attention.
It is extremely difficult and usually takes financial investment.
I think that is the most anyone can do. I know that I don't have any real influence here. We can't really effect the price on our own but we can control what content we produce. If we all try to make good content and help each other when we can, we might give some more people a reason to keep coming back.
That being said, I am no expert and I could just be thinking these things because I want them to be true lol.
It is extremely difficult and usually takes financial investment.
Well i'll read your posts and you can read mine and together we who feel stranded as lonely islands can at least send smoke signals between!
Ideally
After Hardfork 20, we will be able to sign more people up. While I still think we will lose a lot of them, every round of new users we get, we get a few that see the long term and they stay.
Ideally