It may be stating the obvious, but a social site is made of people (like Soylent Green). Steemit is still pretty small with under a million accounts and many of those are inactive. We need millions more to attract the masses and that's down to us. It has been hard to get people to sign up. Steemit can look like a possible scam as many will be suspicious of any site that promises to pay you. It's also fairly complex and you need to learn about various concepts such as blockchain and managing keys.
There's also still the issue of getting an account verified. That all seems to take a while. I can see they need to minimise the fake accounts, but we need to get good people on board quicker. We were told they are working on this at Steemfest.
These are some of the people I've either brought here or at least persuaded them to stick with it.
brought me here and I'm grateful to him for that. Follow him for cryptocurrency news.
is a fellow guitar fan and keen photographer.
posts some funny stuff about life in the IT trade and his dog.
had been very successful here with all sorts of posts.
is into photography and meditation. A long time friend from the Tsu days.
is another German who I knew on Tsu.
is not posting much, but he keeps coming back.
is a songwriter, musician and philosopher. I'm hoping he will be more active soon.
Another musician friend has just signed up and I'll be helping him get started when he can log in. I've been collaborating with him on some songs and I want him to benefit from them.
As Steemit gets better known we will see a flood of new users, but it's advantageous to get in early and start building your followers.
This is just the start of something amazing.
Steem on!
I'll buy guitar picks for Steem Dollars
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