This is a good analysis. People always forget that real competition improves everything. If another network offers something that is important to users, so important that their quality of life goes way up, well, it's time to have a closer look and take the competition seriously. Users are very feature-oriented and we are spoiled. FB and others have so many features, it's ridiculous.
If I don't feel safe somewhere, and another network has addressed my very important need, naturally, I will go where my needs are being properly addressed. That's just the reality. I took significant heat for my honest feelings, but that is the nature of the mob mentality when personal gain is attached.
I don't operate on personal gain like most people. I am not attached to money in the same way as others. I notice me being attached, and then I become aware of how that is having a negative effect. Then, I spend time looking within to find out why I feel weird, uneasy........this happened to me on Steemit. Now, I am not worried about losing anything. Whatever I made, I can make again. The important thing is to align my energies with expressing the truth, even if that truth makes the power players uncomfortable. I have to be honest with my energy or else my art will suck. That's the deal that artists/pure creators make with themselves. That's also why they are not usually motivated by money. Money creates short term people.
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I like your philosophical and spiritual approach to Steemit, @stellabelle. I've also been enjoying your posts since I first signed up here a month ago.
Being a writer who is married to a musician, and who spent my teenage years acting and singing with the local theater groups, I understand the pull between artistic integrity and authenticity of expression, and the desire to make money from what we produce. I do believe you are correct in that detachment from the outcome is the key.
We need to keep producing what we love, be ourselves, and trust that our audience will find us. When they do, the money will follow naturally. It's a process that can take time....I still make far more from doing business writing for clients than I do from my novels....but if one has patience, the desired success from more enjoyable, creative endeavors will come.
I see myself as a best-selling author one day, as long as I keep writing what I like. Other people will have the same tastes as me, and my audience will find me....a small one already has, which I hope will continue to increase with future books I write.
I read your post on detaching from the monetary outcome and focusing on what you enjoy, and that is exactly the right attitude to have about these things. It works in the artistic community at large, and it will work here, too.
@stellabelle thank you for your support ! appreciate, and i Do agree, competition does improve as it tends to steemulate and gives tons of information. About Steemit features, it's actually designed to be a Reddit/Medium -like, and expect people to build on top of Steem blockchain different Decentralized App that could cover other niches like a Facebook, or other types of Apps. Means different apps that we all expect to be released very soon.
I do also think it pays in long-term being honest but somehow a closer look reveals that the worm is already in the fruit of this utopia. Most people are there because if the incentive, which means profit, gains, money. You can always use Steemit as a personal blog and not paying attention to other people payout and your own payout but it's not design for this. It's design to build competition and somehow can create frustration and make people stop using it.
But i totally agree your philosophy. Align your energy with expressing the truth, your truth, without adapting it to get upvotes, or the seduce the crowd, thats the deal which will define if you are pure author/Artist, or just a copycat product that tries to sell his self-eSTEEM for SBD.
Money does create short-term people but it also creates some lucky guys that are there to lock the secret and keep the trust at a maximum level for the minnows. But it always ends the same way: Frustration of a majority. Depending on which direction we will choose to adapt to these problems, Steem will be a success story or not
That's my opinion