Ya, this place is sweet, it's like reddit without the hate.
I have a fb, but only use it to read about some of the people I follow like spiritual teachers and jason silva. This place is great because people reward eachother, competition doesn't pay. There are a few issues with certain wealthy users though, and many people just starting don't understand that building a comunity is better than pandering to the whales.
Breaks are always good, I find myself burning out from time to time until I get in a social mood and things start rolling.
Yeah, it is, like reddit without the hate.
I've also noticed that too...some of the sites are good for certain things, and most people I know who do use them, especially Facebook, use them in that way. It's good for maintaining a connection with people like far away relatives and maybe less tech-savvy people in your life who wouldn't bother with any other platform.
Idk if you saw, but the last post I resteemed by @steevc was on this topic of community building vs. pandering. I agree, I like that too, that we see value in rewarding each other rather than competing. It really seems to bring out the better nature in people.
I think we, dear friend, have found ourselves amidst an experiment, a very lovely experiment.
Nice, I commented on his post, I think steemit will evolve even more and become a great place, possibly better than other social media, but it will take some work to make it easy to use and to get rid of some of the crap
True. Gonna take some work.
And I've only been here, what now, three, four incredible days? Barely long enough to bungle that sentence. So geez, lay off the pressure. :p Give me some time to screw everything else up. It's gonna to take some time to wreak true havoc.
(I did discover @steemcleaners today, btw. Just added that to my good-guy spam/crap-fighting toolbox on here.)
Honestly, the way you are approaching the site is pretty great. I feel like if you had an intro post you'd have quite a few more followers because your comments are always quality. Then again with all the resteems it would get buried. I'm hoping there is a way to separate resteems and blog posts in the future!
Thanks, I do sometimes fear I might be too verbose, and almost always have had issue with that on other sites, either with it just not suiting the way of things there, or with myself wishing I could be more in depth in my communication because there's literally not been room allowed for it.
But otherwise, I do think I took naturally to this site's layout, for some reason. I do like (love) to write, so. That's probably it. Give me the space and a decent prompting and that's really all I need. The fully engaged community is just an extra bonus. And that's probably what will keep me going once I hit a slump. Will be an open window for that needed encouragement.
I know. It's time for an intro post. And I have that same gripe about the feed. I hope they do improve that at some point.
Once you get up and running it's usually beneficial to be able to put what you feel on a certain topic into words, people here love engagement, it shows value when you don't have the voting power. I first got noticed by putting out good comments, all I had was one intro post, since then I've been posting 1-2 times a day and I've been loving the freedom to express
That's really awesome. And I can see that, you need some way to express what value you have to contribute. If comments are all you've got then you'd best make use of it. I hope I can follow along that same path, into posting. Your blog and writing did pique my interest at first sight, because I think you are very much doing what I'd like to be doing on here, myself.
I was actually talking to someone the other night about the difference of this site versus others when it comes to that individual expression. The difference, it seemed to us, is that people here aren't gathered into hash-tagged categories, as in you can't navigate to a Facebook group page and post out to a whole of people with one comment. People are forced to interact on a more individual basis here, and that allows for more depth of conversation (case in point right here with us) and that creates less likelihood of discussion from a stereotyped kind of perspective projected onto the other. And that's a good thing, imo, because I think having to connect on an individual basis might help us in getting a more realistic view of these certain societal groups or types of people. I mean, that is one of the biggest and worst issues afoot right now working its best to tear apart the rational fabric of our society. Rampant name calling, judging, blaming, entire groups of people, and often unfairly so. I think it's good that this space creates an alternative to that and can maybe be part of the work to fight that unfair and destructive trend.
I do think we need to value our freedom to express without censorship, wherever we have it, while we have, and to speak up and out for ourselves as individuals. It's something we have to defend and fight to keep our right to. It's good for us personally, cathartic, and good for us working together as a society, as you said, rather than against one another. I think, surely, what allows for so much of the hate on the internet to grow, or even exist at all, is this dehumanizing of interactions which creates some big bad incomprehensible other for us to abuse. So yeah, I'm really liking the difference. I've really enjoyed this conversation with you. I'm sure we'll find reason for more.