Hello,

Spot on article. But I think we are not looking at Steemit on the long run and that's why we get frustrated. Especially when we see all these advises and guides to get rich by posting everywhere on STeemit and how the platform is revolutionary.

I don't think it's the case. Though Steemit is innovative by its business model, I think it focuses too much on the money part of it and the whole platform gets confused by the mean of it. Is it more like Facebook ? More like Medium ? Twitter ? right now everything is linked altogether whether you are on STeemit, on Busy, DTube or else, it all appears on your main blog. So some people are using it as a Youtube platform, some others as a twitter one etc...
ANd steemit being in its infancy alongside with cryptos in general, for sure people don't know how to react, it is new and darn difficult to learn.

It reminds me the early days of blogging when no one knew anything about it, some people didn't see the potential of it while some others juste shared their life as they do on FB now. only a few created real value content. But the main crowd was confused.

So the context of the crypto world now with a platform that ignore its main purpose makes everything really confusing for the user. We only know it is about money.

This is for the downside. But the bright side is the economy works. and that opens up a lot for artists. I think Steemit is as you say it : an experiment. But definitely not the final product. It is not useful for artists now as we try to fit in and even if we don't like to write but just sharing pictures, there is no way to be noticed here with only pictures.

The Steemit economic model can work if it becomes the norm and if all the platform can be decentralised from Steemit. Then we can have more specialized platforms for artists and develop some more adequate business model. By building on top of the Steem model.

I think this is a good way to begin things, but Steemit is definitely not the end to our problem. Time and innovations will tell but it opens up a lot of possibilities for us and that matters =))

(my 2 cents haha)
Cheers !