ONE YEAR ON STEEM! - MY RETROSPECTIVE AND CURRENT STATUS

in #steem6 years ago

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Congratulating myself on my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON Steem!

RETROSPECTIVE:


@surfyogi STATUS - MAY 15 2018:

Interesting to look at my steemreports voting and Word Cloud :-)

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http://www.steemreports.com/outgoing-votes-info/?account=surfyogi&days=14

Shows I vote for 221 votees of which 2.5% are for myself.

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http://www.steemreports.com/steem-word-clouds/?account=surfyogi



Looks like a few words are missing, and I start to think it's intentional and some words they just won't use for some reason.. like Nigeria, and Africa?

And ARTzone is there but WAfrica is not?
Hummm..


SO MUCH has happened in the last year, where to even begin?!!

I was unemployed in April 2017, then learned of Steem in May, then was working for a while, before GRADUATING to Full Time Steemian! Yeah!
And being my own boss, so to speak ;-)


Now I'm really living... and took some time off Steem in Nov, traveled to Mexico for a month and just wanted to chillax for a while.
Then began to have some new ideas and decided there were new vistas ahead I wanted to explore.

I got a message from @punchline and he was wondering why I was sitting on top of SP and not using it for a month. I guess I had not learned how to use an upvote bot yet? can't remember.. But he and I talked about communities quite a bit and delegation and I started to understand those things better then..

If there is one thing that really stands out to me, it's how long it took me to learn, and how much I learned in one year!
I learned so much, but it took a whole year, some of it... to fill in the holes that were still in my knowledge. But I realize now what an advantage it is, to have that year of experience, compared to a new user joining today.

I got a message from @misrori, a pesky developer that wanted help financing his bidbot... at first I just ignored him.
Then he offered to setup a bitbot for me too; now that was interesting. I didn't know anything about bidbots but the income was nice, so I agreed to try it.. (with reservations, not wanting to be known for it).

But I decided there were pros and cons to them, and that they exist for a reason; because Steem has flaws that need to be fixed. So this was the community reaction in many ways..


STATUS:


@artzone now has 7400+ followers and seems to be organizing well. Shout out to @nmalove for covering the bases lately as @artzanolino had his computer down last week. @web-gnar and @edprivat filled in like the champs they are! Thanks Dudes!

ARTzone is starting some new curators and it is my pleasure to announce @jacobite joins the team last week, @gbija and @gvand this week, and several others are now curating, a few of whom I have not yet introduced myself to, my bad ;-)

https://steemit.com/artzone/@artzone/artzone-logo-contest-winners-announced-30-sbd-awarded

The ARTzone logo contest 2 weeks ago attracted about 200 artists with many hundreds of artworks submitted! And our first music contest was titled "QUIT YOUR DAY JOB" and was a whole lot of fun ;-)

https://steemit.com/music/@artzone/artzone-music-contest-a-dsound-dtube-dlive-community-initiative-winners-announced

@wafrica is doing so great with 4400 followers and rising quickly!

We of course, know we are very lucky to have @lordjames at the helm and we look forward to each new daily post that goes up, with the best of WAfrica all in 1 spot!

WAfrica community would not exist without the wonderful team of curators whom have all just pitched in and made it work without ANY egos getting in the way. @chiama, @gee1, @jeaniepearl, @phunke, @steemgh, @mcsamm, and the rest..

Building these 2 communities has taught me some great lessons, and I look forward to sharing my learnings, in the weeks to come. I hope to have more communication with people about how Steemit organizes SMT, and launches the coming HF20 and HF21. @ned has been pretty communicative lately and that's been fun ;-)

Shout out to @misrori, it's great to have a mate who is so open to new ideas with a great technical creative mind. We've got ourselves quite the THINK TANK going bro!

@prettyjules158, thanks for keeping me sorted out!

FINALLY, I DO BELIEVE in the vision that Steem directs us toward. There will be pitfalls in the months to come but we have no choice but to follow our destiny here and make our communities as great as they can be with the tools we have. So much evolving so quickly is hard to keep up with!

I have some projects in the works I look forward to sharing very soon and so much more to come for 2018, really going to have fun with it!

Cheers Yall,
SY-

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Happy one year anniversary @surfyogi, it's been fun since I met you and I want to let you know that we sincerely appreciate your contribution to the development of West Africa.

As you mentioned, the future is brighter than today. Lots of project in the pipeline and you've got yourself a pretty great team of thinkers. We may fall a few times but I'm sure we'll always rise stronger than before. Thank you for letting me grow this far, I will never forget.

I hope we will look back on these times as the magic years that changed the world ;-)

It's very good @lordjames, I think, @surfyogi is a person who has a very high social life, and wants to help people who are less able, therefore he is entitled to get all this success, hopefully all your dreams will run smoothly.

I, alongside many others have been truly blessed to encounter you on this voyage. You are an amazingly meaningful link and catalyser, thank you, you are appreciated 🖖🏽

yeah man its going to get SUPER real when Steem Hardfork 20 comes out VERY soon and allo2ws for instant user registration whiel also limiting new users to a cerytain amount of posts and comments per day UNTIL they buy or earn some Steempower, and why not? We don't want new accounts be ing allowed to just flood the blockchain I belioeve only peope with SP should be allowed to even post more than once a dya but new accounrts will have more freedom than this I am sure, but we WILl finally see some INSTANt accounts and Millions of accounts per Month then WEEK and we will see exponential growth and a LOT orf new Apps and front ends

Then Communities comes out and ALL Subreddits Migrate over to Steem just like Ethereum ERC20 tokens will migrate to EOS :D

Then we see HF21 and SMT s come out probobly late this year or early next year but we will all be having so much fun with HF20 New users and Communities that we will be content waiting another YEAR for SMTs, That won't be as important as the $50 Steem price we will experienmce later this year and seeing steem all over the news and hearing Rappers all talking about how much steempower and steem dollars they make off of posts of them getting head on Dlive LOL Imagine all the NSFW Porn focused versions of Dlive and Dtube that come out that wil use IPFS to host Porn to then get Upvoted on the steem blockchain, hahah rappers will be talking about getting paid to smOke WEED on Steem and this will make steem SO popular!

No one will use instagram or snapchat when steepshot becomes more advanced and we have a snapchat clone for steem with IPFS or Amazon or CDN video hosting, I mean the videos disapear after 24 hours so its actually perfect for our situation having to rely on video sharing that isn't quite premament without a lil extra work pinning fiules to IPFS haha so Snapchat woill be PERFECt foir steem!

I cannot WAIt to see the MASSIVE social media RIUSH of young people ALL making A LOT of money Posting And upvoting on steem!

Imagine eveyrone who decides to just BUY steempower to REALLy get ahead and gain influence in this new ecosystem, this is gong to beINCREDIBLE and with Steem at $20 then $50 it will be SO HARD to get up to 1000 steempower!

The whales will be seen as like large stock investors like warren buffet that you can't just match without going back in time. People like @thejohalfiles and @fyrtsikken will be see as investors who saw an early opprtunity to get steem cheap and took it and made more money than we can ever imagine on steem., but its OK because they're wealth allows for all of US to create wealth!

Even small minnows today will in the future with $50 steem have huige upvotes like whales have now! And whales of today with $300 Upvotes will have $10 maybe $20,000 Upvotes all in one click, the reward pool will be 50 million dollars a week instead of just 2 and we will see people feeling like they have WON the fucking LOTTERY when they get Future Whale upvotes at $50 Steem price! We will see people getting $100,000 Upvotes eventually , I mean the steemit account can already give $9000 Upvotes if it wanted to, Thankfullit doesn't thatd REALLy d"drian" the pool or make it feel like that! But just imagine when we have $1 MILLION dollar upvotes! It WILL happen Whales that have $1000 Upvotes today will have $1 million dollar upvotes if steem ever goes from $3 to $3000 and in 5-10 years that COULD happen , and so just imagine getting a million dollar upvote

Steem will become a life changing machine for so many people.

Congratulations @surfyogi, one year with so much achievement.
Before I met you, I had heard people called you "daddy Africa" from a distance I wondered why they did, initially I thought you where an African only to get close and realise you are an American?
Then why daddy Africa? I deep thought. 🤔🤔🤔
Then I got closed and realised "you have impacted life's in Africa, your love is unimaginable.
You have a golden heart, greater height my boss.

Official announcement, only Jules gets to call me "Daddy" ;-)

Lol, now I have a password? Only Jules.😉
Thank you daddy.

Hahaha
I just bought in.... Lol
Watch out 😜

Daddy, hope I too can join @prettyjules158 to call you daddy?

It best captures who you are to us; Artzonians and Wafricans.

Hmmmm, If you call him daddy without adding my name to the source, is gonna be plagiarism.
The statement is official and its sealed.lol🙈🙈
Oh Jules....

Kikikikiki

Worry not, I will source it properly. Pending till daddy makes mine official too.
lolzzz

Oh snap! Daddy Africa, hes the African Sugar Daddy, Sugar Yogi. Dude when communities comes out after HF20 comes out WOAH get ready jules! HF20 is soon and it will allow for instant account creation for free and we will see millions joining in short period of tyime and this is our chance to quickly onboard every internet user in West Africa! THEN we can finally pay for BIG ad campaigns and not waste our money , because as you know it doenst matter how much ads you pay form steem has a bottleneck and only so many people are approved for free eveyrday and paying for new account creation is too big of a liaboility even for steemit inc so after HF20 new accout creation will be instant and free for all and thnmsg will be changed so you will probpobly need some SP to post a LOT in one day which is actually good! Less psammers! Anyway, its going to be SOON so NOW we can FINALLy get BIG ad campaigns in Nigeria and Ghana and get some serious Youtube Ads and @surfyogi and you can star in a Ad for Steem and Wafrica, a cross promotion ad to promote steem for africans and to show africans that when they DO get on steem the can come to Wafrica like we have a TABLE for them at the PARTY so when they get in they feel at home!

I think I may have to start calling you daddy for this.

I haven't heard of HF20 before, it would be nice if another steemit-like platforms come up to tackle the account creation time probs.

Daddy I can't wait to join the HF20 party.

Congratulations on your one year on Steemit.
The road hasn't been an easy one, but you've thrived yet.
You really have achieved great feats on this platform and I'm sincerely happy for you.
You have been of great help and support to many on this platform.
Wafrica and Artzone are a success because of you.
It's good to know how supportive you are of Africans, your reward is sure.
Thank you so much for your support to me and of course, others.
Many have benefited from your rare act of kindness.
How come I didn't know there was a music contest? 🤔
Too bad I missed it....
Maybe I should do a song for you then....
Lol...
Bless your heart @surfyogi....
You're the best

When I saw your blog, read what kind of fire is in your being, I knew we would have to find a way to work together.

And I'm glad we getting there.... 💃
Just need to set a few things in place....
Good news coming soon 🤗🙂

Congratulations @surfyogi. It has been such a pleasure working with you!!

More boundaries to break and more achievements to reach.

Congratulations dear.

wow you really are a community builder! i'm so happy for you that you've 'graduated' and become a full-time steemian! it's a dreamlife of financial independence. i hope i could get there someday too 😎

Hey brother ! Everyone is amazed by what you accomplished in so little time, I look forward to year, I am proud to be a part of @Artzone and excited of what's to come!
Happy Anniversary man !

Congratulations on your one year here and thank you for all you have done for this community during that time. In addition to what you have done with the artzone and wafrica, you provided the jump start that the funny community needed. Your delegation made it possible to provide prizes for some humor based contests that grew into some truly amazing things here. Because you never asked for any credit, I don't even know if people know how instrumental you were in providing the jolt the funny community desperately needed.

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for this platform!

My initial talks with you inspired me to do so much; thanks for your time and attention talking about Communities with me.

Oooo wow happy one year steemit anniversary boss..

It is a blessing meeting you.
I am so grateful to be an Artzonian.

May your steemit journey continue to be rosy.
You are the best 👍

Congrats on QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB buddy!
;-)

Thanks boss

*smiles

Happy one year anniversary. You have an amazing personality and i wish you more success in your endeavours.

All Right Nma!
Pretty soon you can help me pick out the first JET in the FLEET! ;-)

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