RE: Steemit is all about the Money!
Dear sir! Your post is full of wisdom and I am proud of you! Thank you for blessing us.
but really.
I totally know where you're coming from. Especially when I started, it was a confusing time of everyone being positive, but only a few being authentic. Over the months, I've slowly curated my own users that I follow, and now interact with most of them (obviously some more than others). As with any social media, there are people who honestly use it and others who abuse it. Unfortunately it can take some time to weed out the chaff, but once you do (or at least once I did) it is a great and interactive site. Steemit definitely has its downfalls, but it also has great potential. I know there are a lot of things that need to change before it's widely adopted, but here's to hoping there is a way to somehow clean up the content.
P.S. Always love seeing your work, even if you frickin' clickbait me.
Great reply. My sentiments exactly. We forget that this is all one big experiment. At the moment, I think Steemit is going to reflect human tendencies we also elsewhere in the market. Have you ever been to a market in the third wold? It's busy. People are talking, bargaining, even yelling. In short, it's a noisy, dynamic environment. I like to think of Steemit as a marketplace of ideas and content. How your content performs on the market (i.e. financially) is not only dependent on the artist, but the marketing, business and technological acumen of the artist. I think we see the same tendencies with Instagram, which is 95% filled with selfies and bad photos of food. Eventually Steemit, or something that succeeds it, will hopefully have a better list of features or rewards that promote more genuine use. Otherwise, I worry about the same things you do...
Very thoughtful response. I love your analogy of Steemit like being like a busy marketplace. Makes the negative aspects seem much less obtrusive or annoying, and puts emphasis on the eventual value underneath the entire thing. Good thoughts! I wish somehow more people could read these comments. I think the conversation is a valuable and insightful one.
Thanks! Glad to see you got some of my sarcasm. I think it will take a bit of time as I curate the writers and content creators that I follow. I'm not leaving anytime soon, but have had a bit of a harder time finding content that I really can connect with, compared to other social media platforms that I've used.
Pretty much was gonna say exactly this, so I'll just ditto @aweber! I love your content, but can totally relate with pretty much all your sentiments. Hope you stay round a while!
The one thing I have felt is missing is a messaging platform like Instagram has. Quite often I have a conversations on Instagram messages with people who have question, or have answers to my questions. I feel like there is no good way of having a normal conversation with anyone on here. Do you guys all have Discord groups where those conversations happen, or are you just reverting back to the mainstream platforms for that? (Adding @aweber to this.)
Yeah, that is currently one of the downsides. We all do have discord, and can connect on there for DM purposes (or even Facebook). But as of now, I'm unaware of a direct messaging function on Steemit, which kind of sucks. I just love sliding in to those DM's, ya know?
Thanks! Planning to stick around, but have felt slightly disillusioned a few times. Figuring out how the different communities operate here on Steemit has taken some time. I'm curious too how, if Appics takes off in the coming months, it will affect photograph community on here. Just lots of questions lately, but always eager to learn.