RE: Motivational Monday: You are building a legacy
I've alluded to this in some of my posts along the way... my Steemit experience is really a return to a format I really enjoyed in the early days of the web: Personal Social Blogging.
What many of us are doing here — including what you're describing — is very much like what we were doing on Diary-X, Xanga, LiveJournal and others, back from about 1999 on.
These sites (although long forgotten) where revolutionary in the sense that they were the first kinds of multi-user interaction outside message boards... "commenting" had been invented. And people talked about their lives, their hobbies, their fears and beliefs and everyone interacted... often at great length... on that.
I'm just glad to see some kind of return to that format; Facebook and MySpace killed it, for a while... "social" became little snippets, and "blogging" suddenly became all serious and about building a niche.
I'm excited about the "permanent record" idea, too.
Very interesting that we have sort of come full circle in a way!
This is pretty much my first experience with anything beside Facebook. I was fairly late to the internet game (a product of my age and the dial-up internet connection we had growing up). I have thoroughly enjoyed my three months here, and that's without even stopping to think of any kind of financial reward.
I do recall your post about ulogs and this whole "getting back to the roots of blogging" idea, and it's funny because you really are pointing out what is happening, even if people don't call it the same thing.
A post for another day is where this concept finds its limit, though. I love the idea of a "monkeysphere" in your brain (tl;dr - you are genetically capped at the number of relationships you can maintain), so there has to be some limit to the number of people you can legitimately follow or interact with, even online. The niche specialist trades mutually fulfilling relationships for a multitude of one-sided exchanges. I think when it comes to financial rewards, one behavior is certainly more incentivized than the other. Perhaps it is this recent pullback in the crypto markets that everyone seems to be talking about which is making more people realize that one approach is much more socially rewarding than the other. Do you find the comment quality and level of interaction much improved from the days of the $8 highs after you account for the lower number of users?