It's alive!
I used to frequent SteemIt a few years ago. It looks like a lot has changed since then.
Back in the "Golden Age" of SteemIt, there were thousand dollar posts. Constantly. The right whale upvoting your post could net you a hundred dollars on the spot. It felt like the only way to be seen seemed to be to have good connections, or artificially boost your post with bots. It also felt very toxic as a community. It was a mad scramble of users posting, a lot of spam, a lot of drama. Maybe part of that was my choice - Maybe I chose to be involved in the dramatic part of the community in my own quest for riches. Even now I'm sure there's still drama tucked away.
I was probably on SteemIt for profit, which feels like the wrong reason to be on a social network. Hopefully I do better this time around. SteemIt looks like it has evolved. There's ads. But more importantly, there's content. The top posts no longer appear to be about the future of cryptocurrencies and price predictions, or angry discussion over the inequality of the system and how whales are sabotoging everything. I suspect that the decline of the crypto markets drove away a lot of the people who were here for profits, and we now have more of a community that's interested in... Well... The community aspects of SteemIt.
