RE: Proof of no brain
I'm stuck in my old feed too :D
I kept going through the 7c days because I was having fun.
What do you mean by that?
I pretty much stopped steem 6 months or so ago, feels like you are pushing that boulder every day in hopes of people seeing the good in good ideas, but at least in my world I wasn't seeing much change, at that point it was a year+ of "get people to read" "learn to express yourself", "This place is great, but it used to have more engagement... it's better, trust me :D"
So yeah 2 years ago, you would get no views and autovotes thanks to trails, last year you would get auto-votes and auto-comments and empty views thanks to bid-bots.
So what's next, we make a AI social networks, so it can make content and value itself, maybe then we remember we used to read and think by ourselves :D
(numbers are subjective)
When I joined in user participation was ~30% since half was automated already, and 20%(70% in total) seems like it was whale stake, nowadays I'd say there is, let's say 5% honest human engagement in the grand scheme of promotional and auto-vote, auto-comment, spam accounts, bot accounts.... so that kind of means by my logic, whales should hold 90% of the stake nowadays :) of course half are community whales, dunno, I'm making this longer than it needs to be.
7c? days is that some hardfork version here, if so I missed it :D still when I joined in it was a golden age, real people, talking together, something unseen before in the traditional media of the day (although that is what internet media used to be, youtube, twitter, before it was politicised and marginalised and weaponised ... )
Around March last year Steem was worth just 7c and those who just cared about the money were giving up. I kept posting and commenting as it was still fun. I earned a lot of Steem then as there were less people to share it with.
I enjoy online communities and there are still some great ones active as well as lots of cool projects. It's hard to know if it will all succeed, but it's fun to find out.
yup I agree, I've mostly tired of this conversation since i did answer it for myself around 2 years ago, basically around that time, everyone was screaming I need money this and that, but it was the people that were giving that were getting in return and most people were really focused on the getting aspect.
Strangely enough that's the time I was blogging my 20 or so posts, I've kind of been stuck there, somehow wishing people would somehow see and feel like I did :D
exciting, new, opportunity for change
It doesn't look like it, but if you look into it that's what steem is for me.
I love this place for the people it housed, it's still my preferred social media, even if in general I hate the concept, at least in the current traditional sense.