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RE: The Bystander Effect | How one of my first lectures in Psychology might apply to the Steem Community
I think we'll survive this. There's few people using this Network but a great percentage of users are really talented in one area or another. I am feeling confident the IT gurus will find a way to make Steem less dependent on SteemIt.com.
Excellent article, Rosa!
I believe so too @trincowski, and I am actually hoping this 'crisis' will lead to more people realizing how much they have to add to this place - and start doing it. Hence my post. Thanks for your comment!
There are lots of very talented people here. Lots of them are not necessarily writers. Artists and photographers for example.
I think this insistence on "blogging" and writing as somehow being what makes steemit better or different is a huge turn off for many if not most people. Of course i'm not stupid and i realize that's what everyone assumes is just "the way it is" and the people being rewarded by that are the ones who will reject what i'm saying.
I'm a photographer and that's how I started here as well. I have put my photography on a lower priority though because there's no app on the Steem Blockchain yet that I can truly trust to display my work in the way I want. For me photography doesn't end with the picture, but also with the way I present it. (Be it in a book, in an exhibition, or online.)
But yes, the idea that we all have to blog/write good content is old-fashioned in a way. We can now play steemmonsters, write answers on questions on musing.io, or hunt products on steemhunt, and all will earn us STEEM. The time that only long-form content got rewarded will be over soon enough :-)
I started here thinking i was going to be just posting my art and writing a little about that. A year later and i feel like i'm all over the place. I have at least a dozen thoughts in my head i would like to say... just read a post from Ned and have no idea what is really going on and all i can safely say is i found out my photos are now shrunk to 640x427 pixels. LOL, trying to earn steem is something that has really spun me out and "corrupted" my brain. I say that jokingly but it's true if i look at it from the point of view of an "artist" whatever that really is. These topics are interesting to me and nearly impossible for me to type about. The sort of things that are easier to discuss in person and even then not exactly a piece of cake. Well... there it is my usual incoherent post comment : )