Hey @motinkergnome I completely agree with you. Most of the discussion on here and most of the content on here is either about cryptocurrency or Steemit itself.
I bet you could post awesome DIY tutorials and example of your work and really cool stuff and you would probably make $0.50 per post. On the flip side you could probably take a screenshot of coinmarketcap.com and post it everyday and would probably earn $5 per post.
This site is definitely too centric on cryptocurrency. Don't get me wrong I like crypto but I also enjoy documentaries, DIY stuff, entrepreneurship and business content and news etc. This site will never get mainstream adoption and be a place normal average people come for content unless we get more of that type of stuff and even then the interface can't really match pinterest or instagram for pictures, youtube for video, etc.
I'm not trying to down Steemit b/c I like it here but I guess I don't get what Steemit and everyone's mission is. Do we want mainstream use and adoption? Do we want this to be a social media site that average people come to like they do pinterest, instagram, facebook etc?
I agree completely. I have been trying to get my family and friends on and they were like why it is just garbage posts.
Yeah while occasionally there are some gems on here in terms of content I don't come here for the same reason or in the same way that I go to reddit or youtube because i genuinely enjoy the content on there, I come here to kind of play the game of upvoting my friends, posting my own shit, claiming my rewards. Its more a job than leisure where as youtube and reddit I truly enjoy and learn and am entertained on those platforms. I'm here because I'm part of this site and have been here for a long time but I honestly couldn't blame or even necessarily disagree with someoen who's not a content creator or into crypto who comes on here at the urging of a friend and then is like that's fucking dumb