RE: DLive is leaving Steem: Sad, but maybe a wise market choice.
But that said, when a saloon would be closed back in the real wild west days, they at least would make that apparent to their customers
Yeah. I know what you mean. They should just tell us if we're dying. I want to be loyal, but this is bad for my psyche at the moment. When I shared about what was going on in my life 6 months ago, people would talk to me.
Now? Today I got one comment. It didn't even mean anything. It invited me to a website. Things are different from last month even, when I made a post that garnered 83 comments, and there was a lot of meaningful conversation. It makes me think that I did something wrong. I started a challenge and I'll see it through, but not sure what I'll do after that.
Anyway, very brave of you to say what you did with all the die hards around. :)
Thanks. I’m a die hard too, actually, which is where some of the negative feelings come from, I’m sure.
The recent outage for 10+ hours with no real announcement or changes to the landing page notifying users of such was a bit of a wake up call.
I have a small network of friends here who mean the world to me. However, as you point out, their high quality and thought-provoking works are not rewarded in proportion to interest, commentary, votes, or engagement.
Value is subjective, but when major investors are no longer paying attention to curating good shit, and are just engaging in empty hype and circular voting, the very spirit of the original platform is gone.
Now market realities are reflecting this.
Just my two Steem.
I doubt very much DLive left for the reasons you quote in your post (maybe just because I'm a cynic and never liked them), but the observation itself rings true. More and more people, the actual content providers, can't be bothered to post anymore. The active author number is down to under 15000, and in a downward trend, and I think that is because of failing curation and other interest in content, not because of Steem price.
Steemit is currently set up for making money with money, and not for making money with content, and that is disappointing for authors, especially for those who know what percentage of SP is hidden behind bidbots. All this also makes Steem and Steemit look scammy for those looking at it from the outside.
Sorry I didn't cheer you up.
You did, actually. Hearing real talk makes me feel good!
The recent outage for 10+ hours with no real announcement or changes to the landing page notifying users of such was a bit of a wake up call.
100 percent. I said that last outage too, why is there not something on Steemit's front page? Sticky note "from the desk of Ned" telling everyone what happened. I get details on these things from witnesses who bought votes so their posts would be visible. That is not how a community should be notified
I thought I was a die hard too. This is just starting to happen within the last of couple days. There are still a lot of positive things going on with Steem. Wonderful people here who really should be appreciated, valuable posts, pockets of beauty, but when you look at the entirety of it, it feels like we are sinking. It was/is?? a great idea, but in the end not executed well.
Not worth much anymore, you know...;P
Thanks for the follow and upvote btw! :)
;) hahaha. Yeah. Still more than two cents, at least.
I have definitely started looking into/signing up for blockchain based social media alternatives.
Who knows, Steemit could turn things around at any time. After two years of largely empty hype, though, folks--including myself--are getting burned out, and understandably so.
My feeling is that there are a lot of users who are only here when the steem price is high, @snowpea. Good riddance to them. Good riddance to dlive as well. It never worked for me anyway and dTube is coming out with live streaming. That may have influenced the move more than anything.