Thank you kindly. This is information I can use and I will think about it thoroughly.
The number of posts and the number of active users is still in a decline.
Perhaps my wife and I will leave as well, perhaps not, we're not sure yet. She wants to sell her art at some time, I had ambitions to become a filmmaker now that I'm semi-retired. Until #newsteem we both put a lot of work in our posts here. Scaled down some since then to wait and see, that tallies with "posts in decline" you observed.
In my case, it cost me about $100 U.S. per video in travel cost etc.. With this kind of cash every 7 days (never mind the work) I can't wait for things to happen organically (tried it under a now dormant acct.) but depend on promotion to speed things along. We're not rich people. So Youtube and Facebook with their much broader reach have suddenly become a viable alternative to us, although I have always rejected them on principle. In her case, many fluid art videos get views in the tens of thousands for the established artists. I must ask myself, how much is my anti-YT-attitude worth to me?
Now it doesn't look like we can get any traction on Steem anymore, due to the visibility issue. I've seen other artists here complain about this, and that no star Youtubers come here you know yourself. The powers that be totally underestimate the importance of the visibility issue to COMMITTED content creators and it feels like they're chasing us away, although, of cause, I try not to take it personally.
Anyway, thanks again. You have helped me greatly in making progress towards a decision.
You're welcome :)
At the current Steem price there is about $7.000 USD to be shared among all Steemians per day. That's peanuts compared to the total sum of revenue on Youtube. We all do our best to earn a small part of that small pie, but Youtube has a lot more money to share with its uploaders.
Even if you do very well you probably won't earn more than 1% of the total reward pool. That 1% would be a maximum of $70 per day. Not much compared to what some people make on Youtube per day.
During the 2017 hype a single Steem was worth multiple dollars. People were earning a lot of money on Steem, but most of them left during this bear market. They where here for the money only. At the current price, most of us won't get rich here ;-)
It's not about the money, it's about the exposure. If it was about the pie I could buy a little more Steem and only curate; that has become very lucrative and I can feel the difference even with my measly 4k VP. (Whether there is something left to curate we shall see soon enough.) Blog about what I curate on a daily basis and bingo. That could become the start to a nice little income from a hobby. "Rich" is different, I'm clear on that.
The media acct. is not my first one here. I was there for the hype; good times :-) I stuck around and kept producing content. I only quit writing and recording narration for my vids. It's a hobby, but there is a limit to working for "free" and I had to come up with a quicker format. Now I can't even push those to where they are seen... Too bad.
Let's see where things are headed.