Keeping Up With Developments and Content on Steem

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I heard @exyle on yesterday's vlog (I think), that he has a hard time keeping up with what's going on on Steem already, and that it's much more than it was when he first started.

Before hearing him, I had the impression being here around the beginnings must've been more complicated, with rapidly succeeding hard forks, habitual "bad gateway" errors and such, but apparently not. Now I realize back then it was steemit.com and maybe busy.org after a while and way less users, so not much activity at the ecosystem level, but now this is completely reversed.

Many months have passed since hard fork 19, but the ecosystem has grown a lot and the user base considerably, so it's more complicated to keep track of everything that's going on on or around Steem (and probably not a good idea to try).

And think about it, this is only one blockchain. If one has several focuses in the crypto sphere, imagine how difficult would be to stay on top of every development and news for each of them. Huge effort!

I think we already stopped being interested in everything that's going on on Steem a while back, because it's humanly impossible to do so.

For example, I watch many videos, but I don't create videos myself, so I'm not interested in the editing part of the two of the most popular and awesome dapps of the ecosystem, @dtube of @dlive.

Just like I use mainly steemit.com and busy.org, others use mainly d.tube and dlive.io.

On reading content and engaging with people side, there are enough situations when I don't read (or even browse sometimes) through my entire feed, and I only follow about 100 people.

I read somewhere it was much easier to find great content just by looking at the New tab at the beginning of Steem, because new posts were relatively rare.

When I joined there was a new post created every 10-20 seconds, much often than at the beginnings. A few days ago I checked and we are up to a new post every 2-3 seconds.

The trending page was never a solution apparently, not before the bid bots, not now.

The ecosystem will keep growing, that's for sure, and with the release of SMTs, there will be a boom of new dapps. We obviously can't track them all, so we will focus on what interests us.

Hivemind (communities) will help us filter the content, so we won't get as overwhelmed (hopefully).

The equation is pretty simple. If we have the same amount of time (or less) and the same capacity to focus (or less) as before and the ecosystem keeps growing and more content is created, the solution is to narrow our focus down to the tools and niches we actually use, and to filter out content we are not interested in.