RE: Falling In Love With Steem All Over Again...And this time...It's Personal! AKA The Perils And Sad Cost Of Under-Engaging
See now here was your first mistake.
My decisions are all based on reasoning, rational thought, facts, stats and in short, my opinions are all formed deliberately.
Trying to be a reasonable, approachable and sensible human being just isn't going to get you very far in this world. Bu on the plus side you have managed to stumble across one of the truths of the universe in your post. If you make it a good place to be then people will come. If it's popular then other people will follow them.
The best thing to do if you see that the blockchain is getting a bit quiet, ( and it is) would be to pump it full of life again. We need more activity, more posting and certainly more commenting to get it going again. I browse my feed everyday and the struggle to find good posts is real. I want to read and vote but the site is letting me down. So now to find good content takes 4 times longer as i have to wade through a river of shit to get to the grass on the other side.
From my point I've tried to step up my posting even more as now is a better time to earn STEEM and get noticed by active accounts as so many others have faded away. It can get disheartening though when you post and post without reply nor vote to show for it. It's not about the earning it's more about just people showing that they are out there and want to see what you are putting out into the world.
Don't get me wrong I'm here until we manage to kill off facebook, twitter and reddit but to do so it's going to take a lot more. So lets see it from everybody that we make that extra post every week and that extra comment every day until people feel appreciated and uplifted again. People want to log in and see whats happening or what their favorite blogger has written. The apps will still do there thing but to keep and grow the communities behind them we will need to make people want to be here.
Oh I fear you are right about the limited effectiveness of using ones think-organ nowadays!
You are more than right about the wading to find great posts recently...I don't doubt for an instant that they are there, the blockchain is inhabited by some cool, creative and insightful people but ugghhh, tis true that even ones magnum Opus is surrounded by literally metric tonne after metric tonne of slurry, pond-scum and sewer bilge to a greater degree than ever before, these days.
Be careful too my friend, what often appears to be grass on the other side is just an extra layer of mould on some truly festering posts!!!
You are right of-course about the true reward of occupying a little corner of this frontier town...I cannot ever imagine a post of mine climbing above $5 or getting curied...But when time and work allows I return to share the thoughts that fall from my head-space...As I am sure you realise from this very feed, the juice for me really is commenting to make people feel;
You raise a truly inalienable truth too...Prehistoric, Intrusive, Oligarch controlled, freedom inhibiting banal social media must quite categorically die! We are the people, right? Right place right time 😁
Thank-you so much for taking the time to stop-by and comment, it is so much more than appreciated 😃