Open Letter to a Future Steemian before I got to this, although I meant to get to it much sooner but I have been busy working and working on posts.I ended up reading @meno's
One thing that stuck to me in his post was how this is really an endurance test, and it really is. Losing the Mesopotamians program will surely hinder my growth as I have grown dependent on those certain upvotes that will get me at least 20 cents, however; I cannot force you to keep it going if it is burning you out, and I can understand even more after having read meno's post how much hard work we have to put into our content in order to grow.
One thing is certain -- I feel that HF20 was not thought out properly, as I still see people milking the rewards pool with shit posts. This is surely going to hurt steemit, but I still believe in the potential. Especially when it comes to Steem Monsters.
I have spent countless hours blogging in the past and getting nothing out of it whether it was youtube, twitch, facebook or any other forums or social media. This type of social media is amazing and I like it here. I honestly don't plan on going anywhere but I do have a few other accounts on other sites. Lots of people seem to be flocking to whaleshares, however; there is something I just don't like about the name. I am only here to power-up so that I can be a curator. It would be nice to accumulate a million dollar account one day as I've been trying to be a crypto-whale since 2013.
You have to be able to see through the bad and enjoy the good. I actually haven't had the time to research many of the changes pertaining to HF20, but not being able to upvote myself is a little annoying but I do have two other accounts that I assume I can delegate to and be able to upvote myself that way.
It's another problem I see with HF20, where anyone with multiple accounts is mostly unaffected while anyone who doesn't have that luxury is SOL.
I am here for the long haul though, and feel that steem could be worth more in the future, unless what I have heard about steem is true.
Someone mentioned that the price of steem is basically tied to the price of SBD and if SBD is meant to be "tethered" to the value of 1 USD then it would be impossible for 1 steem to be at $100.
Especially if, from what I heard, the witnesses were doing something to purposely drive SBD back to $1 and it had something to do with rewards pool abuse.
Do I want to see the mesopotamians project continue? Absolutely I do! Am I trying to switch platforms? No not really. I like steemit and can look past the bullshit and see the potential as this was a long term investment for me. At least 5 years. It's almost been 1 and I still have that "FOMO" feeling because I didn't get in 2 years ago when I first found out about it. Having all this drama and people quitting steemit and flocking to whaleshares or some other platform is a bit disheartening because I don't want to start over. I put in what I feel is a lot of work to finally be at 1100 + followers.
I've said in the past that bidbots are the problem, but it's also hard for people to go through thousands of posts per day and determine what are the best ones and what deserves the most value. Being someone who has always relied on organic growth (even with my business, where I typically rely on Word of Mouth as my main source of advertisement), I feel that communities like Mesopotamians who basically sponsor good content creators are more important than the bidbots.
A platform like this is difficult. People are naturally greedy, so when someone can pay themselves instead of paying someone else they will most likely choose to pay themselves out of greed. I am also not quite up to speed on all that is going on behind the scenes with HF20 but I can see that for the whales and those with multiple accounts, it's business as usual.
Well now I'm ranting. I wouldn't want to see this project go away, but you should also do what makes you happy. I haven't been happy lately and it's because I've been too busy and tired to make my posts. And now I'm fairly addicted to steem monsters....no SM on whaleshares though... :P