Why I've been absent from Steem lately
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Dear reader - Steem has been renamed to Hive since May 2020. My content therefore has moved with me to Hive, and I hope to see you there: peakd.com/@soyrosa.
Missed you too :)
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Good to hear from you again. I must swim in a different ocean as you. I see o difference. Not if it comes to the content, commenting or anything else.
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Thank you for letting me know @trendotoken
Glad you're still feeling at home in your part of the ocean :-)
@soyrosa I am if not I leave. Thanks for your respond I hope whatever you do it fulfills you. Enjoy your day ❤️
Definitely with you on this...
It does seem to have gone to passive mode again.
Yes, quite a bit, not saying nothing is happening, but I feel less involved for sure :-) It's normal for people to work harder 'under pressure', but I kind of wish we felt the pressure more often than just when a big emergency happens ;-)
We need to find the buzz again...
It's interesting what you say about not getting the engagement within communities on Facebook, I always thought there'd be a lot of engagement within such communities, I hardly use Facebook so I wouldn't know!
I know what you mean about repetition on Steem... it's an odd one for sure.
It's also very quiet around here!
I think I find the numbers a lot more motivating than you do, I like numbers!
Well, on Facebook you get engagement, in terms of likes and comments, I get heaps of them! But it's sooo much more superficial. If I post some of my work I get 'Love it!', or 'So pretty!', and I get dozens of comments, but they don't go deeper than that :-)
It's just a different platform and I like the 'deeper' engagement we've achieved to get on Steem - although the amount of comments is much lower in general and specifically the last few months.
Anyway, I'm glad you like the numbers, and I'm also happy they keep you motivated! I do like reaching a round number now and then, but don't work/Excel on them too hard.
Good to see you drop by :-) Cheers!
I'm sure there are some groups on FB that better engagement than that, I've used the messenger function on it recently, but that's entirely different.
As to Excel and numbers - that's the basis for making lots of pretty graphs and things, beautiful!
Hehe - I have an Excel happy boyfriend, so it's a classic 'tease' between us, I will 'just know' my decision, he will have to put some numbers in Excel first :D Often we draw the same conclusions though, so it's mostly our process that's different :-)
Nice to see you're back @soyrosa! I've been in and out the last year cause I had too many things going on and little spare time. Funny thing, I realized how much I missed writing in here only when I got back and started to post more often. I never managed to get to a deeper conversation with someone on any other platform.
Most of it for me is I go through times snd topics of things I want to write about and then other times I dont have anything of value to contribute.
Another issue I run into is time vs return. Im not saying I do Steem for the money, but if the money was better I could spend more time researching abd writing vs doing things like mowing the lawn or cleaning the house.
Glad to see people come back and am eagerly awaiting what will come in the next bear market. I think growing a presence for Steem on Twitter and other social media sites isnt nothing, but I get what youre saying.
Yes, I feel you, it's up and down regarding inspiration for Steem as well - it's normal. Time vd Return is a reasonable factor as well - although the 'return' in STEEM is actually super high now. But I know what you mean, FIAT bills need to be paid as well :-)
PS: I saw your name on twitter recently and now I understand that @gniksivart isn't some Viking sounding username, but just a 'read it backwards' type of situation :D Had to laugh when I realized.
Well i've been testing out communities on our test environment on steempeak and i have to say it's made the experience very different for me... that being said there is very little posts happening on communities that i'm interested in so far ... BUT... it's still nice.
Yes, communities are pretty damn cool - and I hope they also will change our levels of engagement. For me it all hangs on if we'll ever have a mobile app for communities though. If not it will remain a matter of 'making time for Steem on Desktop', which is not sustainable. Leaving a comment or two while waiting for the bus to come is the way we'll keep/make this place lively. Curious about the Steempeak/Communities experience though :-)
I'll send you a link to our communities interface over on discord later today.
Lovely! Thanks @jarvie :-)
It's pretty dang good... we're still putting some final ADMIN touches on things like the ability to edit community details on steempeak.
Things seem to have two speeds on steem, slow and then fast. It is like an erratic pendulum. I think right now we are moving back to a little bit more content being added, and people trying to engage a little bit more. That part I like, the engagement increasing, and not going back to the early days of "nice Post" style engagement, but more and more real comments.
Me too, it's actually pretty special to have that over here <3 I'm glad we're seeing more engagement again, I might have missed some of it, but I'll certainly try to get back to that part of Steeming as well :-)
i don't use twitter much but i don't remember when i got from twitter "happy". maybe i just follow the wrong bunch but it is always something irritating or negative.
Right? There's a lot of 'fighting', and I blame Twitter for a lot of the polarizing opinions people seem to have nowadays - Twitter is lovely in many ways, but it's not place to have a nuanced discussion whatsoever, and it shows in how people are argueing/defending themselves today.
When I started there in 2007 it was a lot of fun though - I even got some great IRL connections out of it and help on my thesis. That was 13 years ago though :D
i got late to the twitter game, maybe i felt i have nothing smart to say :D so i missed that part of it. now i feel half of it is politics and everyone is shouting that he is right.
And the organisation of bots that comment in hope to move the opinion in someone's way is creepy.
Yes :-( When I started there certainly were no bots. They look very 'real' too, I can see how many people fall for it. And the shouting is only getting worse unfortunately, it used to be more fun and friendly for sure :-)
Hi Rosa.
Well it's nice to read your thoughts about steem and the lack of motivation. It's not only you, I've felt it the last 3 months also... mainly because I'm completely the opposite in what excites me to be honest.
The whole 'steem knowledgeable' comment conversations, and circle jerks that revolve around them, bore me to distraction. I came here to write creative works and the fact is, as you pointed out, that a lot of the talented writers have left steem.
Ha ha, I'm still here 😉... but in all seriousness it's not far off the mark.
I personally came very close to leaving for good last week, and it was all to do with what I see as the closed loop going on here. Don't get me wrong, that loop does encompass more than just small groups of vote traders. The curation guilds for example do their best to make sure that quality, and variety, is rewarded. But I've noticed that the vast majority of the bidbots turned curation tend to reward steem-centric content or the same authors who're gonna return high curtation rewards.
What it comes down to for me is that I'm not prepared to write on here for less than minimum wage, as if I put my focus and energy on traditional freelance writing I can make a lot more.
I also miss the early days on steem when their were massive amounts of pretty interesting and talented poets and short story writers.
Having said all that, I'll probably keep dropping the odd post.
It's good to hear that the felting is going well. And a clean kitchen is always good 😂
Lots of changes for me in the new year as well. I've started the ketogenic diet to try and address my health problems, and have found some new clients so money isn't as dire as it was last year.
Ha ha, also been doing OK trading BTC... I've learned the dark arts of technical analysis!
Hehe - thanks for your reply and life update @raj808! :D Glad you're still here and dropping the odd post. Maybe it's not a bad thing to not feel the pressure to write daily, and maybe an 'odd post' here and there is even more healthy in the long run :-)
Ketogenic diet! I love it! It helped me quite a bit when I tried it, the first 2-3 weeks are a bit hard and your body goes into fat burning mode instead of sugar burning mode, which makes you feel quite slow, but after that... It only brought me good things :-)
Good luck, and stay cautious with that precious BTC!