I know you say it’s not connected but in the early days many new people joined every single day to that steemit chat group. It was the official link from the website. They went to get help. I bet hardly any of them are here today after the way they got treated. Essentially that platform was a great idea it was a collective chat room where new people went for help and support. If it hand’t been man handled and all the newbies laughed at and abused there would be thousands of more members from there right now. A lot also came cause they got freak payouts in the early days just as my one highly priced salad post attracted a lot of inbox messages on my fb after I shared it. How embarrassing it then went to 7 dollars lol so I’m just gonna delete it/ those big payouts are advertising. Now my big payouts are on steem. Whatever you might say, maybe you have a well paid job etc but people want to come to steem and hive to make money, get into crypto and investing, find a community of like minded people and have freedom of speech and to feel free ( hence wanting to leave fb and Twitter). There is a massive platform for artists and creatives for example to get paid to be creative through online blogging rather than clients. They are not going to do it if they can never get more than 25 dollars for a payout. Photo shoots / music equipment etc is very expensive and I’m sure they want to earn a wage too. The idea I always thought was these platforms could make it possible for them if they put in the effort and built enough following and community. Just cause your happy to only ever make the money for coffee, I respect that, but it doesn’t mean that’s what everyone wants or what will draw new people here.
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Ive lived in London for 15 years around creatives of all levels, and I’m always meeting new people almost every week on jobs and events. I’ve tried to get many people on. I might not know all areas but that’s one I’m well aware of and I know why they don’t sign up or stay. People can either take my feedback or not it’s just what it is feedback.one reason or course is understanding crypto etc but more and more are owning some now. But no real creative or successful blogger is going to come here to get capped at 25 dollars I’m just putting that out there. They might re share a few things they are doing anyways but to put on a Photoshoot and get images retouched etc takes about 2 weeks and a lot of money. To get real exclusive content and draw ppl in there has to at least be the premise they can get properly paid for their craft. Remember rent here is £2,500 for a month for a one bed flat. A photoshoot or Dj gig gets mostly paid around £500-£25k Altho there are some lower and higher. These people have a lot of down time between jobs and probably at some point get tired of their industries of course they would take less for blogging and creating purely for blogs but they are not going to do it to only ever get £14 lol cause it’s capped. People don’t mind building and starting from zero but the thing that drives them is hope for the future. @johnvibes can probably back me up here.
So right now no way can anyone go and do a proper photo shoot just for hive etc you’ll only get exclusive content like that when people are getting decent payouts to actually create.