Maybe it's because I'm an alien but...
I don’t really understand any of this… So why did I join Steemit? @adept, naturally. Every time I saw him Steemit came up in conversation, and for a good while I just tuned it out… That’s just how my brain responds to crypto talk, it does not compute. I don’t understand it. @adept helped me get a very general idea of what it was but for the most part I have not a freaking clue. Eventually one day I went over there and he asked me “You get a Steemit yet?” Of course I hadn’t. He told me to pick a name, shot down my first idea with the suggestion of something simpler, easier to remember. “Accio.” He went to his computer and all of three seconds later I had my account. He and @seer helped me put up a profile picture and after that my account sat mostly dormant until January.
drawing I did of @adept
Until right about when they introduced me to @MrViquez. He is rather assertive about Steemit. Also he has nice eyes; nice eyes = Accio’s Kryptonite. So I busted out a few posts and started scanning the site, reading things and commenting here and there. I found it a little difficult, I can’t seem to force myself to post things I find pointless… and not to offend but most of what I see on here is poorly written (I’m no literary savant myself and I understand many of the people here are not native English speakers, kudos for trying though!), lacking substance, related to cryptocurrency stuff I do not yet comprehend, and just not generally engaging. Maybe I just haven’t spent enough time searching to find my niche, which can be tricky for a naturally impatient person like me, combined with not being able to do ANYTHING without twelve interruptions and children literally climbing on my head every time I pick up a device.
Maybe I care more about content over profit than most, maybe my standards are too high… Even what I’ve posted thus far has been garbage forced onto the keyboard just to get something out, so I’m hating on myself here too. Basically I was wondering if I could make myself fit into Steemit, but I was making the posts anyway. Then @adept unexpectedly passed away, Steemit was his thing. I could hardly make myself look at the site until a couple of weeks ago, so really I’ve spent the last couple of months thinking about what I should post to Steemit; what people may want to see, what will garner the most upvotes, followers, comments. I have finally discovered something profound! A personal paradigm shift if you will…
I don’t give a rats ass.
The rat doesn't either
Sorry, not sorry. I just don’t… I just finally decided that if I need to post (I feel that I do, I hear that I need to almost every day, but just because I want to as well) then I want to post what is interesting to me. If other people like it and I get some buzz that’s great… if not that’s great too, I get to write with no potential for loss, and the possibility of gain. So I start trying to comment again, start scanning the site again and I see some things that really give me hope that Steemit can work for me. I’ve been seeing posts about “content wars”; people calling out ‘shit posts’, about ‘good content’ vs. ‘bad content’, so on and so forth that showed me okay, there are people that do really care about the content as much as the cryptos. Also @hanshotfirst made me fangirl squeal by complimenting my writing. I really do have a reignited hope that I can work myself into a community here.
that is what life is about right? Community...
Some help though would be really nice though, if anyone that reads this post has some suggestions on who I might want to follow (again I don’t really understand crypto so unless it’s presented in a way that my four year old could understand and that person is very interactive, it’s kind of moot for me. I’m more into the quality of writing kind of thing than photography and such. I like things that make me laugh, and make me think… preferably both at the same time), or any advice beyond “just post and comment” on ways to navigate towards what I’m interested in and how to interact with people on the platform, I would be super happy and eternally grateful if you dropped a comment!
(all images/video credit moi @accio)