Thoughts on My First Six Months on Steemit
Completed my six months on Steemit. It has been a great ride but let me put the facts out there – Steemit takes out a lot from me but the returns are worth it.
I joined Steemit on 6th January and made my first post on the 11th. Now I am about to reach 500 followers and 3000 comments and more than 100SP. This is by no means a great achievement, but it sure as hell took a lot of work. I am not really sure what the future would be like here, but I know for a fact that if ever you come back here down the line, then you’ll find me.
I have had a lot of troubling thoughts about Steemit lately. I am worried about the direction this community is taking and my reasons for worrying are pretty real. First of them is that I put several hours a day on Steemit. My personal best here is more than 90 hours in almost 8 days (had a long holiday). About an hour ago I wrote a comment that took me 20 minutes to write and yet I see another post that was just a copy-pasted gif and it earned more than 100 dollars.
I am worried that after putting all this time here, what happens when the bots take over? What happens when the greedy here try to run the system day and the short-sighted twist the system further to wrench out even last drop of dollar and hurt the platform, irreparably.
Thankfully I find these answers within myself. I have all the traits that are mentioned above – greed, short-sightedness and I have used bots for votes. Yet here I am asking the difficult questions. I see that others are asking these questions too and this gives me hope. Maybe we’ll see it change for the better or maybe it’ll take a turn for the worse, who knows? I have decided to stay in and I am going to see where this train takes me.
(View of Warsaw from a building)
I am just so glad that I came to Steemit. This could possibly be a source of second income for me but even better is the fact that this is a place where I can earn Steem before it goes to a $100 or even more. If you think that I am greedy then you are right. Greed is great motivator and I intend to learn to use it well.
I have met so many great people here that trying to list them all would be a mistake. For the sake of an estimate - I follow around 99 people and 30 of them are the most terrific Steemians that I have seen till date. I’ll spend rest of my time here searching for more………….
I am only less than two months younger than you in steemit, but I could have written your article word by word. I completely agree with all you said!
Glad that you share the sentiment man! I think a lot of genuine Steemians are feeling the same. If a person is putting in some decent handwork in this platform he/she is bound to ask the hard question. Those whose objective is to make themselves into decent Steemians actually deserve to ask these questions and in return act with responsibility.
You both are great friends I have made on this platform. I recognize a lot of the downsides you mentioned. You definitely put in more work than I. I am trying to do a better job of commenting while also maintaining growth. I just keep thinking that there are others like us out here isolated and that keeps me motivated.
What's I'm trying to say is I am happy to have met you both and I believe that we will build something truly life-changing with the connections made here. Whether it is on steemit itself or beyond. Perhaps steem is just our BTC and we are approaching a golden age of "alts" or alternative pathways to freedom and intellectual discourse.
Steemit has truly been a game changer for me. I have never really participated in online social spaces before Steemit and I doubt if I'll do it outside Steemit.
The results here have been truly great. The biggest upside for me to be on Steemit has been the chance to meet you guys. I am not sure if I would have ever shared personal stuff online before coming here. The kind of community that we have here is simply amazing and I doubt that if we can find it anywhere else.
It is truly a great feeling to be able to have intellectually stimulating discussions here and at the bottom of it all is an underlying trust. I feel that we all owe it to ourselves that we do our best to make sure that in this chaos of blockchain sea we have some islands of trust where truly brilliant ideas can find refuge. Guys like you both are the ones that would be at the center of this idea. I am pretty confident that we have a very real chance of fostering something truly epic here.
Oh I agree completely and I always get excited when I see comments from you and @ronaldoavelino. What I said about another chain was that I can see another platform being inspired by steemit and just improving on it. Clearly you've identified some drawbacks of the current form. That doesn't mean I will ever give up on steemit - just that I may consider adding other flavors to the dish :)
God bless you. https://steemit.com/@biblegateway
Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold
Thanks! Glad to see the SSG symbol again.
@hashcash thank you for bringing these concerns to the table. I am still very new to the Steemit platform (I only have a handful of posts and am already behind on replies) but it didn't take me long to see it's sort of a game of chess here. I still have so much to learn but it seems, from my short time exploring, that it doesn't necessarily matter how good the content is that a person puts out if they don't have the votes and support of community members who have a lot of SP (whales yeah?). Like when I give people upvotes nothing happens... I wish people got paid for all of our votes. When I first got here I thought it was really wonderful because everyone contributed something meaningful and everyone got a piece of the pie, but I'm not sure I feel the same way anymore. We'll see if I can tough it out for 6 months. Congrats for hanging in there!
Thanks :-)
Earning on Steem blockchain is a lot of work. Just like life it is even more difficult if you want to do it within the ethical boundaries of this ecosystem.
@hashcash yes, this is so true.
I think sometimes our fear of getting rejected (from even gettingn help) is sometimes what stops us. Perhaps it is that final push that can get us the help we need........
My friend @hashcash,
Can you kindly share the list of 30 of the most terrific Steemians you follow ?
Thank you so much !!
OH yes! absolutely - I am following some great people and would want to list them all. How do you think would be best in a separate post or here in the comments?
Man, here is the list of Steemians that have inspired me:
https://steemit.com/nathanmars/@hashcash/the-steemians-who-inspire-me
Of course there are more that 30 people that I would love to mention but I guess limiting the numbers keep things in perspective. I actually want to mention so many people there that it took me more time deciding than writing.............................