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RE: BuzzSteem Ep 8 [Truth Bombs, Haejin and Steemit]
We have everything we need now to make this work social media platforms, video sharing, etc.
But to be honest at the moment I am finding it harder and harder to find great content. I did a rant vlog yesterday that on steemfollower it took me over 1 and a half hours to find five good posts to upvote. Thanks again Beth.
Hey dude... maybe check out the @curie and @ocd accounts... they have people that absolutely look for the best content they can find on the platform.
Wow I never thought of that thanks Friend appreciate your advice.
No problem at all.
The @steemitworldmap people also curate all the travel posts too and do a daily digest... and so does the @qurator account.
Ya know, I just had a long conversation with a friend who is an author, and is currently working on a book about information, Facebook and shitty writing basically. (Though much more eloquent than the way I just butchered it). But basically, we talk a lot about the recycling of unimportant information, and how the majority of writing going on right now is just a regurgitation of what someone else has said. There couldn't be a more notorious place for this than Steemit. I explained that I was even guilty of this. I write Buzzfeed style articles about things that we have literally been beaten over the head with, over and over again. But I do it because that is where there is an opening on Steemit. What I really want to do is make music covers of Broadway songs, and have lots of in-depth philosophical debates about Libertarianism and Anarchy, but there just isn't that patience and the readers for it, nor the rewards. I would be lying if I said that my strategy wasn't to make a living from Steemit one day. And while it may not be my best work or my heart's desire, I tend to be more of a opportunist and find what is needed and fill that need. To me, it is a thing of beauty.
Getting to my point though, I think there is a lack of really great writing and posts on here because people aren't baeing compensated for their time. Who wants to spend hours and hours and hours dumping their whole selves into posts that are going to make .55 cents. I mean, I feel that way about videos sometimes, but I keep trucking along with the (possibly fairytale) notion, like most Americans, that I am perhaps just a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire. The lack of compensation and attention though, added to the bullshit articles like Haejin's and Grumpycat's and BernieSanders all making tens of thousands of dollars a day, is a perfect recipe for disenchantment and good people leaving Steemit. It's a damn shame really, and that's why I try to keep bringing attention to it in my articles and videos. I mean...it's probably a waste of breath right now, because none of the whales are watching, and even if they are, they most likely don't care, but I do my best to try anyway. I have to have faith in something...why not Steem?