I don’t know @surfermarly as I haven’t had any interaction with her, but I definitely have seen her in the spotlight here on Steemit many times. When a devoted follower like her leaves, it does make me worried, because I don’t think it is a monetary reason, but simply as he says, Steemit has lost that magic that it used to have. I used to spend a lot of time on some posts in the past, even hours, and when posting it was a thrill because posts back then could get recognized and get a nice upvote. These days I could pretty much write a novel and post it and I will have the same post reward at the end of the day as if I posted a picture of my buttocks.
The content value discovery has to somehow be solved, otherwise this will never become a success social network.
I totally agree with you and sometimes I dont even know why I should try anymore. As you said the result is the same if I post the dinner from yesterday or write the best article ever the results are close.
Actually I had a lot of engagment on the school article but that was something else.
I think the interest is going away from only being for bloggers to be for...not sure really :-)
But the lack of inspiration is like a disease spreading on this chain
Like you said, you tube started as a dating app, so any kind of transformation is possible and I’m still hopeful