It reminds me of the untamed outdoors when I was a kid in the 80s, where you would leave the house at sun up and return at sun down with scrapes, bumps, and memories; or surfing the internet in the 90s when people had personal websites filled with dangerous and deeply personal text and spinning .gifs.
Very nice and apt description lol. I miss netscape and geocities.
I guess whoever stays are the early-adopter types who can bear with little hand-holding and niceties atm. Can't wait for the ui / ux be improved for mass adoption in the future, but I guess that'll depend on our inputs / activities as a community too.
Just the other day my wife had an online prompt suggest she open the website in firefox. I thought, what is this, 2005? lol. Yeah, netscape, geocities, newgrounds, ebaums world, livejournal... the internet was a very different place back then.
As far as steemit goes: I figure if I can build a following, get posts with an average of 100 likes and roughly $10 payouts NOW, then I'll be pretty well set when the ui improvements come. And it seems that I'm well on my way to achieving that goal. :D