Not sure if it is rising actually, a year or so ago content was much much better. I believe most people exausted themselves and and burned. I saw so many quality content creators just leave:
It's not even worth to talk about it but time does not pay off.
It's not about payment per say, people create great content completely for free on other platforms. It's about user experience. Especially unfairness when very mediocre content wins by a huge margin just because author has a fat steem wallet.
Not so many people know how to say wothout rage or despair, but i've been supporter of steem blockchain for so long. Ridiculed by the others i still preached the paradigm shift. And it still might be happening, smt's are a great launchpad, but i'm afraid as soon as any of these projects gain traction, they might flip the coin and migrate their token to any other existing or yet to be created blockhains. I'm not even sure i want to create my token on steem anymore.
There is so much to talk about, but there are so many inherent problems, and my comments under your posts are usually much longer than my post, hence you know how to initiate response. I'm not much of steemit reader, but there is always something in your posts...
Anyway, getting late here, i wish that i am dead wrong, and i'm still hanging here not knowing for how long, but sometimes it just gets depressing :)
But I certainly hope that steem will mature and find it's way and in a sense it is doing that with smt's, communities and all. But steemit and it's copy papste spinoffs are dearly broken fot now. So i do not really know if it is rising. I hope it is, but i am not sure.
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The blockchain level doesn't care, which is my point.
I think that most of the content on other platforms is shite :D it is just that most of it is never going to be seen at all.
Yep, they might. This is why Steem as a community has to advance and grow to become a community that is both large enough and willing enough to support the applications on the platform, and those applications have to be compelling - not just offer a token.
The spin/offs are lazy developing, not compelling. There are a lot of other types of appications that can be built.
Night mate.
I agree that blockchain level does not care. It shouldn't by design.
I read tons of useful articles on medium. I follow a lot of interesting discussions on Redit, i watch many educational videos on YouTube, i admire zillions of great photographs on 500px. So there is no way i can agree that content on other platforms is shite, sorry on this mate.
Developer community is great on STEEM. As for the content, discovery of good content is extreeeeemely time consuming, difficult and not intuitive that results in voting circles by design.
Do not get me wrong, i love the concept of STEEM, just as and user platform (steemit and others) is not there yet, by far.
Forgot. I think this is something I will address in a post later however, this is the same on all platforms except that on most there are a seemingly endless supply of users adding content. How many survive for years? The monetized ones...
Yes, i agree, the monetized ones. But the difference is, that if you hustle long enough and hard enough the financial reward can be substantial, hence it gives hope and motivation to move on while it is still FUN to use the platform.
Steemit however, is somewhat designed to be continuously bumping into same content creators, creators that you like or creators that are always trending and more often than not having big stake (which again results in circles) for example i enjoy reading your articles and engaging in discussions. But discovery of the content by specific keywords is almost non existent.
And since there are no efficient ways to discover that content and reward the authors, by the time whales and big stake holders will realize that they are only ones jerking off each other in circles, steem adoption will degrade, price depreciate and it will be too late to salvage it.
While those whales that actually want to reward different quality content creators still run into the same issue of awful content discovery mechanism, and engage in voting trails, since discovering that content is time consuming and no fun at all.
Or think it this way, why redit is such a huge community even though there are no rewards in place, and people are constantly joining it, while content creators on Steemit are leaving it. It's just that ugly sense of unfairness. And in current state Steemit does not feel like a place for creative freedom but more of a country run by oligarchs. It's just that simple.
You do not have to agree with me, it's just my opinion. I'm just stating obvious facts.