I recently had a very interesting conversation with a fellow Steemian about the purpose of Steemit - is it all about the bloggers or is it a growing business place?

Steemit as a blog

Besides the fact that Steemit is based on the Blockchain and all, let's face it - it did start like a platform of personal/individual blogs. Yes, crypto was involved from the start, but most people posting, especially the first months of its existence didn't really know what they were doing and after that there were a lot of bloggers already -from other platforms- joining Steemit. This is how we promote it, this is how we define it - 'Come blog on Steemit'. So yeah, basically Steemit still is a multi-blog, hosting hundreds of bloggers. The question here though is...

Is it that bad? -besides......when we're on our pages, it does say 'My Blog' there...

Steemit as a business

It would be very interesting to see what would happen if we 'transformed' Steemit from a blog/blockchain platform to a business/blockchain platform. Probably everyone would benefit from it, but is that what we really want for it? Just profit profit profit? Quality content but with different goals? In other words...

Do we want to kick bloggers out?

Bloggers on Steemit

Same way as in many many other platforms, there are good bloggers and bad bloggers. Bad bloggers are hitting the quality of contents in any case, in any platform and in any way. But good bloggers are a plus for any platform, not a problem, not a 'slowing down' process. And I say this because I am a blogger myself.
As a photographer when I first started on Steemit together with Hive account@creutzy who introduced me, this is what I was doing, almost exclusively - blogging about Photography. He still does, but I did expand my interests a bit, which is good, but not mandatory if you ask me. Our friend Hive account@sebi99p writes about gaming and space - he blogs, and he is an amazing blogger, does that mean that if he's not a businessman he doesn't belong?

Steemit for fun

I understand the view of making Steemit worth more, of it being different than other social media or crypto platforms and I definitely applaud that - let's don't forget that I'm the one that almost a year didn't know anything about Steemit or crypto and now I'm a trader, a meet up organizer (Hive account@copensteem), a mentor and a team leader (Hive account@steemsugars) with ultimate goal to bring more people -ladies in particular- here and make Steemit a better place. But do I see it as a business...?

...maybe not (?)

Steemit as a money machine

As I said in the past, I didn't get on Steemit for the money, I didn't stay for the money and I'm not willing to ever make money more important than they have to be. I mean, it is a super pleasant side effect, but I don't think it should be taken as a given for joining. I joined for the blogging, the interaction, the communities, certainly not for the money. And we're not talking about today's situation in crypto -which a total bloodbath-, we're talking generally, and about long-term plans.

One of my favorite Rohn's quotes here, about money... Source: Google

As I said plenty of times before, Steemit is my happy place and I'm not sure I want to see it being taken over by businessmen making it a corporate machine - that wasn't the deal when I joined. Of course, the creation of more communities while helping people through them [with charities for example] is a completely plausible and interesting thing to do.

I firmly believe that if businessmen would take over Steemit then it would become an 'elite' platform, not accessible to everyone - which, if you ask me, I don't think it's fair to the people investing in it from the very start. I mean, I get investors looking forward into the future, and I understand that it would be nice to have ONLY quality content on Steemit, but let's face it:

The bigger Steemit gets, the more like other social media it will be - eventually.

I have no idea what the developpers think about all this [Hive account@sneak?] and what was their very initial idea when they created this platform, but I'm sure that whatever the initial purpose was, the more people joining the more it swifts to other objectives.

There are new things coming out every single day - new services, new websites linked to Steemit, new people - different people, the platform is evolving and no one can stop this...but we need to ask ourselves at this point...

Where do we all want to see it go eventually?

Some food for thought... And as I always say... don't forget to smile ;)

MeanMommy

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All photos are mine, as always...'cause well, deep down, I'm still a photography blogger after all...