You can't seriously say content here is as good as elsehwere. I can go down a Youtube wormhole and 6 hours later be like what the fuck happenned. That has NEVER happenend to me on Steemit. I come here to play the game and suck peoples dicks who have a score higher than me and hope for some upvotes and then I come back and check and collect my 0.11 cents. I come here to play the game and even that is no longer making sense. Maybe there is good content here and I just can't find it because the search function is a fucking joke or because trending and hot are fucking jokes but to me the content on here is not only not good with rare exceptions, its incredibly hard to find those rare gems.
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I can say there's far more junk elsewhere, because that's the truth and that's what I said.
I can say there's good content here, because there is. So sorry that you had to do a bit of work to find what you like on a site that pays you to do it.
obviously were not comparing apples to apples but youtube intuitively knows what i want to watch, heck they even know stuff i want to watch that i didnt know i knew. medium is incredibly easy to find good content. the search function here and overall interface makes it painful trying to find good content.
i suppose junk is subjective. while i do think quality of content here is low generally speaking, i will say its probably my preference as well the type of content i like to consume isn't really here. there's too much of a focus here on crypto and steemit itself imho. ifthats your thing i can see how youd love it. dont get me wrong i enjoy crypto but right now itskinda boring and i like it in doses, i like to see some other content as well
Crypto is a small market and I agree, having too much here will turn away potential consumers. Much of the crypto crowd use bots, so they cram it down our throats and bury all of the other work. They're not concerned about things like long term thinking. If they can scrape a penny off the ground, they'll do it, even if it means that penny is holding up a wall.
On this platform, you're better off finding people instead of content. If you're into trees, nobody follows a tree, but if someone ads their personality to a post about trees, even something as bland as a post about trees can become interesting. People first, content second. If you enjoy someone's company, you'll probably enjoy their work. Also, some people have bad days, we all do. I'll still support someone if they felt like pushing out a shit post, especially if it's funny, for instance.
There's way too much steemit related content. I wrote about that the other day. I'm an artist and it seems most aren't interested in #actual-content these days. They're refusing to support it and paying attention to the steemit cheerleading warm fuzzy stuff that's outdated and pointless shortly after publishing, and also holds no value outside of the local community.
In this post, @yallapapi talks about pushing content out, to outside eyes. That's something I've done for over two years. We had a view counter at one point and some of my older posts were showing views in the thousands. They weren't advertisements. It was simply #actual-content getting passed around on other social media, by people who enjoyed it. That's the best way to attract genuine eyes to the platform without using ads. Just use interesting content and share it.