I have been on STEEM for over 3 years. When many of my friends told me to leave, I stayed. When the price went down to nothing, I continued to be active. I have been on this rollercoaster ride a long time, and I've been here during all the ups and downs. I have seen it all. Almost.
I say almost, because some things have happened lately...
For a long period of time, I have struggled with motivation. Things have gone downhill for such a long time so STEEM has not been similar to what I have become used to. I am not talking about the price, even though everyone obviously would appreciate a higher value for their beloved STEEM, I am talking about the atmosphere.
Greed and despair have been flowing through this blockchain for a long time and the general behaviour seems to have changed as well. People have changed. I have changed.
However, even though I personally have not enjoyed to be on STEEM as much as I did in the past, some things have changed lately, and some of these things seems to be pretty epic actually.
We have Steem-engine, we have tribes and dozens of different tokens... It's a strange world we live in, and I bet that all of these new cool things makes things difficult for some.
Some people still has problems figuring out if Steemit is the blockchain and if Steem is the currency or not. All these new things definitely makes it harder for some people to understand what Steem is.
Now, we can see Steem, palnet, stemgeeks and neoxian to name a few. On top of that, we have tokens for the different gambling dApps, whaleshares, weku and whatever the name is for all of those places. Steem-engine has helped us tremendously, and some people are still eagerly waiting for the SMT of Steem...
STEEM is difficult. Steem is without a doubt the most difficult thing online I've ever been a part of, and I've been here for 3 years. I often feel like a blatant rookie. I don't even know when and where I should use all of these new tags, even though I've started to understand things a little bit better. Everything is obviously still new, but STEEM has always been difficult. Too difficult for the so called "average" people.
I love how these new things (let's call them the steemit alternatives) gives people options, but it's not just as easy to "just do it" anywhere. You can't just write a post and publish it. Technically, it is that simple, but people wants to be a part of everything. They want to increase their chances to earn, so they need to be visible everywhere.
This basically means that they need to learn how each of these work. What type of content is allowed, what type of content is "the best" to publish and what type of tags would be the most efficient to use...
I am just curious to know... When will it stop?
How many different tokens will we see and will we ever be able to be part of everything? When is the time to focus on one, two or three things instead of 614? - And when do you know that time has come?
Airdrops is really cool, even though I only had the opportunity to get PAL, but all these tokens... I have 19 different tokens right now, I don't know if that is more or less than others, but I seriously don't even know where I got 14 of them... They just popped up out of no where... And I am pretty sure of the fact that I will get even more in the near future.
(Hint: feel free to send me something that is worth more than 0.00001)
Are all of these things more than I could dream of?
Honestly speaking, it is more than I could possibly dream of. Like I said, basically everything with STEEM has felt pretty boring, stagnant and tiresome for a long period of time... As I've been struggling with motivation on top of that, things have felt worse for each day I've been around more or less... And now, all of these things...?!
This is most certainly cool.
