Excellent post. We really need to put things into perspective once in a while.
I did also blog for many years. My oldest blog goes back to 2006. One blog was about me learning Texas Holdem Poker, the other was about my sports betting adventures.
The poker was oke, it deed create a small group of followers. All poker bloggers and we had our weekly poker blogging tournament, which was always one of the highlights of the week!
The sports betting blog was more like a diary. Almost no interaction and no rewards!
As you can see my name reflects these periods. When I did subscribe to Steemit I was thinking about sports betting post, but never wrote about it. I was to tangled up with the cryptoworld and slowly shifted towards Steem and Steemit in general.
Both 2 blogs did had google adsense and in these 12 years and did bring up something around $8 :). (Both also ran on blogger)
On steemit I don't mind the money, I do see it as a nice side effect! I do like to interact with people and Steemit is a great platform for this!
In the 100 days that I have been here, I did post around 100 post and more than 1100 comments, I have never been so committed to any social media platform as here!
Indeed at the moment Steemit is not creator friendly, but that's why am I using busy.org to write my post, which has a much better editor.
I never look at how many people viewed my posts, because I am only interested in the interaction. That's why I try to reply on each genuine comment.
But to become a real social media platform, we need to focus more on interaction than (like you wrote) on the money!
Also one of the problems Steemit has, is that there are a lot of crypto enthusiast here. All bragging about their wins, but when the market takes a dip they are gone, cause they don't want to write about their losses! So we need more diverse people here!
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