I hear that, 'people post for free on other sites argument' all the time, yes they do because those sites allow them to engage with their, "friends" in a way that they find meaningful and which they don't find meaningful on Steemit. I have a daughter who tried Steemit and was hit up by Curie for big bucks but, like most teenagers, she didn't find Steemit engaging, it simply does not have enough of the features that teens like. She wanted some money; so I bought her SBD from her and she still hasn't been back.
So, the point is that most people do not post on Steemit for fun, like they do on other sites, because it lacks the relevant features, they post because it's the site where they are told that they can earn money for posting and no amount of comparing Steemit to other "free" sites will change that!
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Most of the major social networks weren't build in less than a year. In that sense Steem is no different. When I came on Steemit there wasn't a personal feed. There was almost 50% less features. Yet I stayed on and I didn't regret it.
A lot of people who didn't stayed have regret it.
I think Steem will become even more difficult to get and I feel the future of social network will be based on Steem or technologies based on the same principals. I don't see how it could be otherwise. And Steem has a very good head start and people should try to make the best out of it, just like with everything in life. Nothing is promised here.
But maybe if we could all go back to when youtube started we would all try our shot at being professional youtubers because the competition was a lot less back then and Steem might give this new opportunity. People shouldn't think it will get easier to be noticed on Steem it will most probably get more difficult and Steem is probably going to get more addictive, popular and well thought out.