You know that feeling you get when you have something you’re really excited about, or have something you love doing, but don’t have anyone to share it with? Well, that’s basically how I’ve felt about Steemit for the past sixteen months.
Steemit has been this big, somewhat secret part of my life that I have only been able to share with one other person in the community I live. I’ve tried talking to quite a few people about this platform, but more often than not, I’ve been met with doubt, confusion, and disbelief. If you’re reading this, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. For some reason, Steemit just isn’t attractive to everyone. Not yet, anyway.
Lately, though, this has begun to change. In the past few months, a number of people in the city I live have signed up for Steemit and have begun contributing to the various conversations that can be found here. Not only that, they are excited about the new paradigm Steemit seems to be a precursor of and they are interested in jumping down the rabbit hole of crypto-currency and blockchain projects. After all of this time, I feel like I can finally share my excitement with people around me. I feel like I can finally talk openly about what I have probably spent too much time doing these past sixteen months. And it’s very liberating.
This past Sunday, I went to my very first meet-up, a SteemCityNiigata meet-up.
We weren’t able to get much talking about Steemit or crypto done because we all have young children that were pulling us in different directions, but even still, it was nice to just be in the company of fellow Steemians, all of whom are interested in collaborating and working to build a Steem ecosystem in the city where we live. I’m looking forward to being able to share my experiences here on Steemit more deeply with people who are physically near me and to having more meet-ups in the future.
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