749th social network and 19th nervous breakdown

Trying out Steemit. Mainly because @steevc kept droning on about it.

First impressions

• I like the Home/Hot/Trending/New tabs as a means of discovery.
• I like tags for the same reason.
• I am less sure about $0.31 attached to every post and comment.
• This feeling of unease was increased by this popular post by a Steemit founder identifying what appeared to be attempts to game the system (https://steemit.com/steemit/@dantheman/why-i-flag-ozchartart). Long, deep sigh. Why do people have to be so flipping greedy ?
• I used to know Markdown pretty well but I ditched it in favour of Emacs and Orgmode. Oh well. Better than the alternatives.
• Love the live post preview and GitHub Markdown support which is really helpful.
• Not sure many of my friends are here but that may well be a good thing.
• Not sure there are many UK football fans here. Maybe that could be the niche that makes me a fortune.

I've used many of the social networks (including all the unpopular, niche ones) most of them in fact except Twitter and Facebook. My favourite, without question, was identi.ca which I liken to a chat with your mates in a pub and a 'Like' was a knowing nod across the room. It wasn't worth $0.02, it was worth much more than that. I made some great friends there and even produced a short-lived podcast with a couple of them.

Currently, my only presence is on G+ but my stream seems be getting increasingly sluggish and I fear that in the fullness of time, it will go the same way as Buzz, Wave, Reader and most of their 25% projects.