Steem to me is an opportunity to express myself. Keep learning new things and become better at what I do. While trying to approach it with a longer view set than most when I can. I want to do more than just write gaming content I have plans one today to make my own games as well.
I agree just calling it a blogging platform is selling it short. It might have just started off with that but the scope has far exceeded that. A business could come to advertise here. They could also sell here. They might even be able to build a future product here. I look forward to the days when contacting a company it’s no longer about how many Twitter or YouTube or Instagram followers you have they also accept numbers on Steem.
I think curation is ok where it’s at. There are also beneficiaries cut that can start to add up as well. Along with who knows what else could come and try to take a bite out of author rewards. It’s a tricky slope where the content creator could have the smallest piece of the pie. I want to see people going out and creating a new experience to share with the blockchain. Not just try to get out 7 or more posts a week because that’s the thing to do and they want to maintain not evolve.
Five years from now I want to break out of the 7-day cycle. I’m working on that now by being a little more focused on SEO then I have ever been. Sharing and linking my content out elsewhere. Paying a 15% benefactor when I do put more effort into a single piece and want it on a dapp I use that I share those links around the most.
Ultimately Steem to me is doing things that others won’t because there is no incentive to do them today.