Hey, @nickyhavey.
Well, I'm just one voice, right? That said, the blockchain itself is sound. There's plenty to work with and build upon if someone chooses to do it. Meanwhile, those of us primarily dabbling in the social side are basically on notice. We probably need to step up our game. Quite a bit.
I know many content creators are not happy with what's happening with the EIP. I'm certainly not. And us creatives, the ones who are trying to put our own stuff here on the blockchain rather than just talk about STEEM or crypto, well, I think we're being the hardest hit. Which is why I'm talking about STEEM more than I would like (which amounts to once or twice a week).
That said, we need more curators. Supposedly, the EIP is to encourage that. We'll see. No one should hold their breath. Believe it when you see it. But regardless, if we're going to ever grow as creators, we need more and more eyes on our work.
So, curation and onboarding becomes crucial, along with retention and it would be nice for folks who might want to curate to come back to do it. Gain some of the 1 million-plus dead fish that have been floating around for months and months.
Hopefully @quillfire and @fionafavourites will be heartened a little. Not sure all of what they've said, but I can imagine it, just because I've probably said at least some of it myself. :)
Yes I think we are all in the same boat and have had many discussions around the same points you brought up.
When I first joined steem, I thought it as a blogging platform that would give a bit of money (nothing much, just a little bonus). If it was my sole income source I would be pissed off as the payouts aren't great.
However as time has gone on, moreso the last month, I've begun to think of it more than a monetisable blogging/social media site but an investment opportunity to help pave the way for future purchases or, for me, music or travel related things.
I've been pretty active on here the last 2 months and have been in the top 20 of Asher's engagement league so I'm not going anywhere and I see naysaying from those who haven't got as much out of the platform as they'd have liked but I'm pretty damn sure none of them ever bought any steem so where is the investment if you remove your time (hence your choice) from the equation?
I agree authors are being hit hard but only if you stay purely on steemit. There are tribes popping up with niche communities and more ways to earn steem than ever before. You don't just have to rely on writing a blog. I have earned all my steem or had pay from delegation investments to dapps or ocd and only really posted about steem stuff a handful of times.
I think the view point depends on what your own expectations were when you joined vs the reality. I've never seen steem above a dollar (I joined March 2018) - if it was above a dollar, I would still have been a phytoplankton and not noticed any difference to my account value due to negligible steem power.
I dare say a lot of my followers have come from real interactions on steem and checking out new blogs I wouldn't have read previously so a lot can be said for networking. You can't just expect to make a post and then hope followers will come, that doesn't work anywhere, non crypto platform or crypto.
I'll definitely be jumping on Hf21 and I'm planning on loading up on steem power in the next few months so my votes will be worth a bit more to those I support. These low prices are making me lick my lips but I feel there will be further drops as hf21 rolls out.
We'll see! Sorry for the rambling!
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Hey, @nickyhavey.
I've done my fair share of "rambling" comments, aka, covering the topic, so absolutely no worries on my end. :)
There is definitely an expectations game being played, and no doubt it is hard, even if someone came in when STEEM was just above $0.50 USD, to see it drop to nearly $0.16 now. Especially since those of us who were here when it jumped to $8 tend to let people know that, and of course, there's all the historical charts of where STEEM has been and the projections of where it could be in the future. When desire is one thing and reality is another, it can grate.
Which is why, as you say, it's good that there are other things to do to keep earning other than post creation, and it's good that there are people taking advantage of them.
Most cases have a positive and negative side. When you hit rock bottom, there's no place to go but up. No one wants to hit rock bottom, but in a few cases, that's what it's going to take before life can turn around, because at some point, expectations need to better align with reality, or vice versa.
I also agree about the investment part. There was a definite pick up in earnings as I invested. I don't know how much, but I have been doing better since HF20 then I did before that, and that was also about the time of my last STEEM buys. I know there are many people in all parts of the world that can't afford to buy in. I don't know what to do for them. I just know that the more someone can stake, the more it tends to attract earnings. The system is set up that way, and since there's absolutely know hint that it will ever change, that's reality. So, revoking the sweat and time investment isn't going to get someone, as you point out, on any platform, anywhere, where they ultimately want to go.