Thank you kindly. This is information I can use and I will think about it thoroughly.

The number of posts and the number of active users is still in a decline.

Perhaps my wife and I will leave as well, perhaps not, we're not sure yet. She wants to sell her art at some time, I had ambitions to become a filmmaker now that I'm semi-retired. Until #newsteem we both put a lot of work in our posts here. Scaled down some since then to wait and see, that tallies with "posts in decline" you observed.

In my case, it cost me about $100 U.S. per video in travel cost etc.. With this kind of cash every 7 days (never mind the work) I can't wait for things to happen organically (tried it under a now dormant acct.) but depend on promotion to speed things along. We're not rich people. So Youtube and Facebook with their much broader reach have suddenly become a viable alternative to us, although I have always rejected them on principle. In her case, many fluid art videos get views in the tens of thousands for the established artists. I must ask myself, how much is my anti-YT-attitude worth to me?

Now it doesn't look like we can get any traction on Steem anymore, due to the visibility issue. I've seen other artists here complain about this, and that no star Youtubers come here you know yourself. The powers that be totally underestimate the importance of the visibility issue to COMMITTED content creators and it feels like they're chasing us away, although, of cause, I try not to take it personally.

Anyway, thanks again. You have helped me greatly in making progress towards a decision.