I agree, money allone cannot motivate in the long term. I'm almost a year on this chain and I'm keep going because I have fun and enjoy it.
It is a unique experience here on the blockchain, everything is open and immutable. When I write something, it will stay foreever and nothing is private. Until you give away your keys, I know that linnyplant is linnyplant. Does this make the conversion on steem more real than on other social networks?
I'm curious how things will develop here...
Steem is all about anonymity, Holger. It’s filled with bots and alt accounts. The information quality is no greater just because it is immutable. We do have an immutable load of spam, repetitive content, and posts about Steem that only interests steemians.
And will something really be there forever? In the end it’s just a farm of servers that can be taken offline. Nothing is a certainty, less so on a blockchain imo. I would say in some ways it’s less stable because in attempting for decentralisation, it has less control and accountability. That’s why people like to blame evertything on Ned here, rather than looking at themselves as to the problems of Steem.
So this place is unique for sure. Unique in the study to see what people would do for money. And not very much at that, if you’re someone who understands the value of your time.
But I’m focusing on the negatives.
On the flip side, some of my favorite online personalities live on steem. The good, though few in numbers, are gold. Those conversations are real. It just takes a lot of patience to find them and it really feels this Steem World is shrinking some days.