I feel that I am one of the biggest cheerleaders of the latest hardforks - my rewards are more than they ever have been. I have seen many prolific content creators I follow take a step back and blogging less due to the changes in the reward curve. This means less content creators and more chance of small fish like me being noticed 😁.

Manual curation projects

Since the hardfork there have been a number of manual curations projects pop up - @curangel comes to mind as one that has been successful and is always on the lookout for great content to curate.

@ocdb has been around for a while now but has made some changes to accomodate the new hardfork and is taking a more manual approach to curation.

@smartsteem was a voting bot but rather than fight the changes they have embraced them and started to manually upvote content - great work team!

A good time for new Steem users

Times are changing - before the HF it was more about 'knowing the right people'. However there has been a shift and now there are alot more users looking to curate good content. So if a new users writes good content they are more likely to get curated and want to stick around - thats good news for everyone!

Make the most of this time as soon it will become alot more crowded here and hard to earn Steem.