For me it was a win some lose some relationship with 2 years of my life, :D "back in the days" I'd say it was a fantastic experience, but one that is very hard to impart, as with anything, you have to participate/join/learn/voulenter.. humm volunter, .. ok you are making me write years into paragraphs.. sooo onboarding is hard, people are strange/stupid/biased/conditioned ... yada yada ... social media and (sock puppets) masks we use and so on ... ok sense ... come over here :D

Personally, in short my story goes,.. :: random ,ly I've brushed over a youtube (prehistory.. shorter version, subplot, I used to watch a lot of ted videos and get inspired over other people's success or whatnot, nobody wanted to waste 30x20..minutes times so 6-8 hours over holo inspiration, so I never got the crowd .. skip over around 5-10 years and I'm still (:D ..a failure 20 years after that start..) watching, now longer form, but whatever) video about earning 15k in a blog post ... some girl was telling how to sell cookies like a girl scout (can't remember the "'alt right..(meh(term))'" channel .. I was watching (impact flix :D ) okok )

15k for a blog post ... without ads and hosting and being brain drained by google, let's see... and that was steemit, and it had that fight club, don't forget you're tyler durden :D keys :D .. 5 fucking months later of curating, before I got 3 cents or so ... let's try my memory, .. some magician fella, gotta check ... made a great post where I got a curation reward ... then I was making some good/lame posts ... in short the system is broken and skewed and too complicated for the average person, since nobody will dedicate 8 months on a fringe social media cryptocurrency blockchain, to realise what each of those mean and coupled together.. while they are being changed and everybody is pumping some coins/posts and you are wondering when the fuck will I make any money since that is promised on the landing page ....

And yeah in the span of 2 years, after being almost usurped and spending a good deal of 2-14 hours a day on the chain/chats/channels following trails and posts and people and whatever ... learning about governance, security, people, posting, writing and a ton else,., being mediocre at best at each ... seeing great ideas and projects get nowhere, while bullshit nobody cares or reads get autovoted on ... meeeeeehhhhh ... and everybody begging and looking for votes and some whales smashing the markets ... and then banks and governments and blah blah ...

ok so that is enough context.
good points

I loved conversing with true human beings, with their good and bad sides, seeing ideas form and being brought into life, seeing great travel blogs and photography and writing and expressing and being creative, communities forming ... for me it was fantastic, maybe a bit lucrative, but I kind of let the money get to me, then fail ... I suppose I'm not bringing out the good points, but learning and having my perception/vision changed, so quickly in a short span is worth it, having my time get drained in a productive manner, while I'm actually caring about and seeing things people care about .. stuff brought me hope to "traditional" social media.. that lasted for 2 days :D and I still think the only and best way is forums and chats, about topics and with people ... and this is still a good place, although in many ways it's over engineered and with tools and abilities and possibilities, people don't care about and can't use ...

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This needs heavy editing ...
decentralised ...
i'd say the problem is very multi-faceted.. even faced and tiered and ... "we" are losing to web2 and web3, because we don't know what we are dooing and doing a lot of it, lofty ideals, lofty everything, a bit unguided, with huge potential, like a new born child ... still learning to walk, but multiplied by the active users and active motivations on the platform ... and the markets and the everything ... sooo it's a bit tooo over-complicated ....

And the established media is being simplified, and it's winning, because they aren't trying to solve everything and they are capitalising on what works and what is easy and gaming that..

And that's enough, good luck sifting to whatever I want to way... SAY ...

... Itadaki masu
I'm hungry ... and need to sleep more and edit my random musings ...

some final thoughts, at best so far we are a niche, censorship resistant, but as with anything it takes a lot of love, nurture and care fr om many sides/people to have something that is worthwhile and with longstanding .. "influence" .. that makes and brings authority and "trust" and users ... and a base ... and technically when "we" are competing in 20 fields and with 50, 100, 5k, 20k ... years of existence of past systems/processes ... it's as good as it gets ... ...

whatever Ithink too much ...
props to kus-knee and dragosroua ...
and many, many other great people with whom I could converse and condense :D that wasthe original name of steemit in the codebase at least, ...

there should be some simple and easy solution

consensus please
lolz consciousness consumers
consensus

consenseus .. whatever (different misspell)
good
I'm tired ...

thank you for the possibility to outline and imagine my willy-nilly chatter ...
I'm not sure that sense I dragged into this is the right one :D