Although this is not the kind of post I do on Steemit it has been great seeing this!
I arrived here in the second big mass migration you mentioned, I heard about Steemit from a Cryptocurrency trader. I love it! But, whithin the short time I have been here I have come across many posts like this ( not this well written though ), in which people show a certain degree of frustration with what began to be posted in the platform. I cannot really compare it with how it was before, and what is also great about your post is the fact that you highlight diversity and respect people's differences, but if what the Steemit community wants it is for it to grow popular, is there any other way than embrancing and welcoming the masses, with whatever they have to share and post?!
Good points - you got me thinking about a few contradictions here too!
Firstly I found Steemit because of a video, but I seldom watch videos. James Corbett is exceptionally good at doing videos though.
And I'm no fan of resteeming, but some of the best new posts I see on Steemit are from resteems.
Here is big thing that has changed a lot in the past two months - a year ago some of the most popular people on Steemit today were starting out posting great content. But now they just constantly repost other people's content.
They seem to have taken it upon themselves to decide what other people need to see, but If I just want to see everything I could look at the "new" tab myself.
As far as the masses go, I will probably just ignore 99% of them.
My main point is that we have to decide the value of our own posts, because often the payouts are not due to the post, but the number of whales following the poster. There are people on Stemit earning $500 a post while other people posting far better content are earning less than $1.
So all we can really do is post what we would appreciate seeing ourselves, and if that ends up working well, then great!
I agree !! That's what I have been doing so far and hope to keep on doing in the future.
I like what you said about resteemig. I just hope Steemit users don't get too caught up on the the money side of things ( I know it is difficult ). Only today I read a post of someone saying he is beginning to resent the extra effort he is putting on his posts for the little return he gets.
Here on Steemit the concern in relation to quality content seems to be a lot about the money - I might be very wrong! But, one does not see in other social media platforms people stating things such as ' that post got 100 likes and the other far better one only had 3 ', with no finantial gain or loss there seems to be little worry about quality!
Anyways, I am not, by no means, implying this is your case. Quite the contrary, you emphasize throughout the meaningfulness of what is being shared here as well as acknowledging how different each one of us is.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I appreciate it!
Being paid for posts makes it really hard to not access the value of the post, and then even our own self value, based on the payout. It's taken me the best part of a year to mostly not do that, and I have to admit I still do it a bit.
Now most of my posts are earning 10x what they were earning a few months ago, but I have to admit if I did a post now that only earned $4 I'd probably think I was a worthless loser and start wondering how to buy upvotes.
Back in my days of posting on fakebook I used to assess the value of my posts by how many unfollows I got (I didn't get any likes)