For two hours I am refreshing my feed and for two hours my last post fetched is the same. I am not refreshing it every five minutes, but every once in a while I take a look at what's new on the table of Steemit and by table I'm referring to "my feed" as I usually read only the ones I follow and I don't follow too many. The trending page is out of the equation for some time now as I don't consider it worth my attention anymore.
I found enough good to read $1 posts over time, that got my attention, to make me stick with the "insignificant" ones than to read some bullshit out of that page of trends so that's what glued me to the "ordinary". Not that everything out there is bullshit, but there is plenty of it and I'm not the best to scramble over there to find hidden gold. Down from the trending page to my humble feed, I noticed for weeks that it has becomes a bit of a dessert parcel with dusty winds and just a few oases of good posts to read from now and then and...I honestly don't like that.
Back in the days when Steem was $4-$5 I would have to sort posts and open 10-12 tabs of them before actually diving into letters, pictures and hooking titles of other fellow steemers. Now it's a child's play to read my feed and a too quick one. I noticed though that the "classic ones" or the "veterans" of Steemit are still committed to their blogs and don't disappoint me, but I can't say the same thing about everybody in my list.
Now, after the introduction about my feed, the million dollar question about this situation is: did the low price of Steem turned off the fire for blogging in some Steemit bloggers ovens?
In most cases yeah. There must be some other reasons of course, but this decrease in number of posts from my feed didn't occur over night. It was tanking at the same pace with Steem value thus making me think that this might be the main reason. But not the only one...unfortunately.
Another thing that could affect some of Steemit's bloggers dedication to write could be the high rewards expectation and the value of the rewards decreasing with price. As I noticed on my own posts the rewards I am getting now with Steem at about $1.4 a coin are cut in half from what they were when Steem was selling for about three dollars, but hey...that's the market price and I can't do anything about it.
Regarding rewards expectations, especially from new users, it's clear that in 90% of the cases these are ruined and that's only their fault and not whales are to blame. I think I mentioned many times in my previous posts, and probably others have also, that having expectations of some constant number of Steem earned from the platform is completely wrong and it is better to taste the water of Steem with curiosity and thirst for interaction learning new stuff and being part of the community rather than waiting with an empty bag to be filled at every post from your first month around...or why not year. That does happen in some cases, but not too often.
These days are gone so get used with it. It's not 2016 anymore and we're about a million users. On the other hand no matter how much Steem or SBD one will invest in boosters like bid bots once the investments are done everything falls back into reality. It's the same old folks or services like steembasicincome, for example, that appreciate your blog so you might ask yourself after the hype: for what have I gave my Steem away after all? And the answer might be for a number attached to your name and a few days of glory...if you invested enough to hit the trending page. If not...it's just money wasted in my opinion. I know that because I used bots and I know the taste of them. Almost the same people that were around me when I was at reputation 40 are still here when I'm 50+ while the others who joined my followers list on the road are not upvoting me due to some bid bot for sure. So end of story with the bots for me.
Now, if the bear market will squeeze even more the prices of Steem and other cryptocurrencies I will expect even lower activity around here and I don't find that good at all, as a believer in the Steem platform. Although some consider that when less people are posting the rewards from the rewards pool are increasing for the rest of us I will have to disagree that. Simply because, if these people don't post they might not upvote either and I am 100% sure that there are pretty good amounts of Steem Power stacked in accounts here and there without moving a click to upvote or delegating to trustful services and users to do that(excluding bid bot services) so where these bigger rewards come from guys?
Others might think also that in these times competition has left the play field and earning has become easier, but I consider such situations rather as a community drying up and also a sad episode for Steem than a sentiment of relief of quitting competition.
When there's "movement" on the platform, there's interaction, when there's interaction expect upvotes and followers so why fear competition and celebrate desert feeds? If there is something to fear about you should fear lack of interest for the platform and diminished activity of its users because that's what make Steem valuable and that's what bothers me these days more than prices and supposed competition.
Thanks for your attention,
Ace
Many people are here just because of the money. Less valuable STEEM is, less activity from users will be. I would like that this bear 🐻 market last long enough that we shake off most of people not interested in anything but money. I will write and interact here regardless of STEEM price...
I am interested in the money also, but don't see any reason to pause my activity if the price tanks. In my opinion in these situations should be even more interaction and activity.
We are all interested in money but if your only goal is money you will not be here when price is low... I think that Steemit should be used and treated like any other social network and rewards come on top of that.
Agree totally.
Absolutely on point. True indeed is that statement...
Treat Steemit also as you do other Social Medias.
Interaction non-stop.
Blogging continues.
I don't treat Steemit as other social medias. I really find it totally different as I wrote in a post from today:
https://busy.org/@acesontop/steem-is-not-the-usual-social-media-platform-and-that-s-a-blessing
If we do that than we don't have to worry...
Oh...I probably appear to have stopped posting because the value is down. But, no. I post when I have something to say and when I want to connect. I’ve just had distractions for the last few days. I’ll be back. Glad for your continued posting presence here.
Never thought of you in this post. I missed though your posts as I don't have many of your kind following plus you know I always have something to say on your posts comment section :)
I think most of us are here for the money to some degree. I really do believe in the platform though. I am seeing some questionable posts getting on trend and getting a lot of upvotes. I’m going to keep posting about my journey to good health, really to help as many people as possible.
being on here a while i think one's posting strategy evolves. I used to post more but ive been thinking more now about how to incorporate into my site and my feed and what service/content i can offer. A sort of 'digest' of different stuff is my latest trial.
when the price goes down, though, there's still loads to write about and discuss, in such a growing, exciting space.
I post no matter what the prices are. There's a lot of interesting things to talk about everyday.