How many things are we willing to do completely, to the best of our ability even if we get zero in return or the cost to continue is incredibly high?
I was putting out original content about philosophy, consciousness, thinking, etc. for free. Then I found Steemit :)
Like me, you were willing. Could you go back?
Go back to my more important original work? I interject some now and then, but I tend to see the posts I do on newsy-psyche or newsy-tech or whatever topics get more attention. I diversified (don't go all in on one thing only) because that that was more receptive. If I had not diversified from my original content postings, I would not have gotten as much attention for my original work either. It was a trade off to get more ppl to pay attention to more important work by also posting lighter fluff. Always talking about the same thing is easy, but getting out of my comfort zone I guess and doing other posts helped to get more ppl to pay attention to the more important stuff.
Go back to having less people pay attention to my original work, where I make $0 for the year? Nah... Steemit is better so far. Maybe for others, their own blogs and FB gave them attention to their work, but not me really. I'm not much a social butterfly or networker. ;)