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RE: Quick Chat: Insight Into Why Many Casual Social Media Users Won't Use Steemit Yet
There are artists and writers on here doing very well, actually. Steemit just happens to be the one interest that everyone here has in common. As for the cryptocurrency, the whole point is to use steemit as a mechanism for introducing people to cryptocurrency for the fist time. Of course most people don't know about it yet. It's still new and relatively complicated, as far as most people are concerned.
And if they show up here and all of the top trending posts are crypto, steemit and blockchain, they won't stay. Had that been the case when I arrived, instead of EricVanceWalton's fiction and poetry riding the top, I would not have stayed, feeling that my work wouldn't compete. But, that seems to be the trend over the past several days, to a week.
Yes, very true. I should stop being so negative. But i write what i feel and maybe i should put more effort into being positive and run with it. Cheers!
Your points are valid. I think many around here fear infant-mortality of this platform. The ultimate goal is to have diverse posts with rewards spread far and wide. There's a path there but if the powers that be guess wrong there are dead-ends too.
The part I'm most optimistic about is that great ideas don't die. If Steemit fails there will be lessons learned. Somebody will do it better the next time and the next time etc. as necessary to get it right. I feel the same way about Bitcoin. If it fails people will analyze the failure mode and design to prevent it in the next one.