This is already the second #FollowFriday of 2020. I was wondering what the mood of the #Steem community is as we start this year. Could this be when things take off? Looking at sites like Hypestat it looks like the Steemit site lost a lot of ground, but I find their numbers incomplete and it may not have lost many visitors over the year. It just has not gained much ground. The Steem price is less than half what it was a year ago, but other coins have seen similar drops. The crypto market in general has not seen big gains. Bitcoin is up on the year, but well below the all-time high.
@stateofthedapps has some interesting numbers as it measures blockchain activity rather than web visitors. This is useful as we have various 'dapps' that would not show up otherwise.
@splinterlands is seeing some solid growth. Steemit is also showing an upward trend over the last month.
@partiko still has a lot of users despite lack of development. I am mostly using
@steempeak and
@esteemapp. Between all these we seem to have about 10,000 active users, but that will include a lot of bot accounts.
Here are some Steemians to check out:
As part of my contributions to the @steemflagrewards anti-abuse efforts I see a lot of crap around Steem. There is a set of accounts
@andyson
@orion7
@georgia14 who just buy votes, sometimes for each other, and do not engage with anyone. Some of their content may be plagiarised. They do not even check the images are relevant to the post or check their spelling. hey are using Likwid so they can free up Steem to buy more votes rather than powering it up.
I have been accused by someone I will not name of 'STEEM POWER MISUSE' (their caps) because I delegate to various people. I am actually reviewing my delegations right now. These are some of my main delegations:
I am adjusting some others and may add new delegations. One I did get paid for is @isotonic which sold votes and supported runners, but it looks like it is only being used by some junk accounts so I have removed my delegation and will support
@runningproject instead as that is voting up posts by runners.
All this data is public on the blockchain. I am not trying to hide anything I do. If you have questions about anything I do then just ask.
Steem on!
The geeky guitarist and facilitator of the 10K Minnows Project.