I don't think we're doing it right. A lot of times people are comparing Steem to social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. We could be like them functionally, but culturally we're not like them and we're actively fighting to not be like them. Now I don't mean the censorship or the constant political bickering, or the other toxic crap that's on there, I mean more the things that contribute to those sites having literally billions of users. I think that is...

Sharing

The vast majority of people in the world are not "content creators". 99% of the content on Facebook or on Twitter, if posted on Steem would be considered a shitpost. I find myself wanting to ask, do people here really want mass adoption or not?

Right now Steem is like this tiny little village on a remote island where we're all really different but we're united in our love for our island. We love it so much, we want to share it with the world. We want our friends and family here, but the journey across the ocean is harsh and we just know if they actually could make it here they would love it. Only thing is...

Sometimes people come here and they start doing their NORMAL offlander behavior and we're like "Whoa whoa. This is Steem Island...you can't do that here. We're paying cold hard coconuts baby, and we're not gonna pay for crap like that! You better put some paragraphs and photos, and tell me a story damnit! As a matter of fact, gimme those coconuts back, here's a flag instead until you learn how things work around these parts. We don't take kindly to shitposts!"

This is not the way IMO. I think we should reward any and all "genuine" content. What I mean by that is it's something you're sharing because of some honest interest or want to share it. If you post a picture of a flower you downloaded of the internet and the only text in the post is "Flower..." This is not genuine. You don't care about this flower. You probably hate flowers, and they probably also hate you.

But let's say you have a backyard garden, and you have a lot of flowers, and you created a post with a picture of one, and your text in the post said "Looking good beautiful!" Well that would be genuine. Now either way, I'm not interested in that and I wouldn't probably upvote it, but someone probably would, because this is Earth and there are billions of people and literally everything has at least thousands of people that are weirdly into it. Like all of us weirdly into this cryptocurrency that the vast majority of the world hasn't heard of and has no idea why it has value.

I think the ONLY way to get more good content on the platform is to just get dramatically more people on the platform. For every person that you subjectively think has really good content, there will be five thousand that create content that is of no interest to you. This is an inevitable part of our journey. Don't fight it, embrace it. Just my two satoshis.

What do you all think?