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    I like the ability to virtually find any kind of information I want with a simple search. I've written two books, and while they're novels, they are set in a fictitious real world that I wanted to be as close to the way things are as possible. That meant heavily researching places I've never been down to street views on Google Maps. It was quite amazing to be able to so quickly do something like that when it would have taken me much longer researching what I did in a library, and probably trips to the locations in order to get any kind of feel for the place.

    I love the ease of shopping for things online. It's like the old days of the catalog, except much more expedient, both ways. In what would have taken weeks to accomplish, it can be done in two or three days. At some point, it will be even faster than that.

    To a degree, I do enjoy the ability to communicate with others across the globe, like now. I'm not that big a fan of social media or non-face-to-face communication in general, but it is mind boggling just how much more we can be in touch with the rest of the world without any other third party involvement (ie, press, government, worldwide organization, etc.).

    I think those are the big three in my book. There's so much someone could learn if they chose not to use the internet as an entertainment time waster. :)

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    I actually do have a Patreon account (it's what I was actively doing before I joined STEEM). I am probably both a creator and a patron, though right now I am not subscribing to anyone and no one is subscribing to me.

    The way I've noticed Patreon works best is if you have previous work you've done on the internet, say a free webcomic, and then open up a Patreon page and get some of those who follow your other work to come and pay for something, generally behind the scenes kind of things or some sort of special commission.

    In my case, I was hoping to build the following on Patreon, and then discovered there's not a good way for that to happen. The discovery options tend to favor those who are already making some money, rather than those with newer content.

    For what it's worth, my username is Misses, named after the comic book series I was trying to promote.

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     5 years ago  

    Oh, good. Now, I understand patreon better from the creator point of view. How much did it cost you to be a creator?

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    Well, it's been a while since I did this, but I'm not remembering there being a cost at signup. There are percentages from the subscriptions that Patreon takes, for itself and your payment preference—say PayPal—and they take those fees accordingly. So, if you have a $5 subscription, after Patreon takes their part and pays for the money to be deposited somewhere, it comes out less. In my case, I ended up with $4.37 for every $5 made, which isn't horrible. It's just not free. :)

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    Personally, I don't think it will be happening, and in reality, from what I've read, Musing isn't interested in just delegation anymore, because the model they had going for earnings was not sustainable. I don't think they were making enough in curation rewards to keep up with expenses or to grow the business. I can't see how, anyway. Not with STEEM values so low. As big as 1 million SP might seem, 10 million might be closer to being enough.

    If Musing were to do some kind of posting, so that it had some other means of earnings, that might help. Or if were to go after delegations, do it through a group of users, rather than from Steemit, they could build up delegation. But really, it needs capital, and other than maybe some kind of benefactor system, where users pay a percentage to post like some other dApps take, there's not a whole lot of other funding options available that are built in.

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    I don't know if it's possible to do in two days, but there would seem to be a few ways to make it happen as quickly as possible.

    —Comment a lot on other people's posts consistently so they know you exist, and then create posts that people want to read. This would be the recommended way.

    —Go to Discord and join different groups, promoting your content and seeing if you can't pick up some followers that way. I'm not a fan of this option, but it is a form of networking and a lot of people apparently do it.

    —Bring a following with you from somewhere else on Social Media, such as Facebook or YouTube. Some have managed to do this, others not so much.

    —Follow a bunch of people and hope they just automatically follow you back. This I don't recommend at all, but there's nothing to stop anyone from doing it and plenty of people have. Some accounts just auto follow, and so there's undoubtedly some of those already.

    Now that I believe I've answered the question, I guess I would note here that gaining followers isn't necessarily the objective here, as there aren't a whole lot of people who pay attention to their feeds. Most likely, they've followed so many other users, into the hundreds or thousands, that it's impossible to keep up with them all, and thus, unlikely they will see more than one or two percent of what comes through there if they did.

    As someone who does the exact opposite—I'm currently following less than 40, but I've tried over 50 for a while—it's rather maddening. Follow to be followed never really works anywhere, and less here, so I'm not sure why people keep doing it.

    As it is, you can set up a notification service like GINAbot on Discord to beep you when someone you want to follow posts, and likewise, they can do the same thing for you, if they're so inclined. Also, depending on the times you post and engage with others, will largely determine who will end up upvoting you, and rather than following you, they may just put you on autovote, since many do that rather than manually curate.

    Anyway, there's the options as I see them, as well as my two cents worth on the usefulness of having followers.

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