Hehe, correct. I feel the same way and I am happy to say that despite the issues on the horizon I have really built a quality tribe on Steemit so far that is growing by the day with many likeminded people and great overlaps between areas of interest.
It feels like we are building a community within the community, which is utterly needed seeing the trends of bidbots and increasing frustration of so many with low quality trending posts. And the upper tier censorship of course that is probably the worst thing I have found about this place (but really no surprise considering the times we are living in).
That said, we can still make good use of Steemit to find and expand our tribes and to build that SP basis now for our future jump into self-sustainability, or whatever one's thing might be.
It's a grinding year for sure, and intuition tells me it will pay off massively - even if not in funds than at least in building a network that will become essential once the fiat ship is going down and life becomes tribal again.
Would just LOOOOOOOOOOOVE to time it buying some acres with all my work off steem before that happens but... it's all in the universe's hands now <3
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I am also optimistic. There are definitely some things that need to be sorted out around here but no platform is perfect and here there is opportunity to earn a decent amount while community and networks are built.
aye, happy to be part of your tribe.