If you joined Steemit in June 2017 then you celebrated your Steemit birthday with 64,801 other Steemains. What an awesome achievement to see you are still posting or still curating. Congratulations and welcome to the One Year Club.
It is commonly known that the retention rate on Steemit is rather low, so if your Steemit birthday was in June and you are reading this, let it be known that you have achieved a lot. You are an early adaptor of an experimental platform and you deserve to be acknowledged.
To celebarte your 1 year Steemit Birthday I have some data to present to you. Data that proves you are special
In June 2017 64,802 new accounts registered on Steemit. Of this 29,063 have never made a post. That means 55% or 35,739 accounts made post or comments on the platform.
Did you know that the % of new steemains that joined in May 17 that made a post or comment was lower at only was 48%, April 17 that made a post or comment was lower at again at 46% and March was only 36%?
From this 35,739 accounts, a further 14,373 accounts stopped posting by day 20 and have not posted since and only 4193 accounts have posted in the last 45 days. If you are one of these 4193 accounts you make up only 6.4% of the 64,802 users that registered on Steemit in June 2017.
These 64,802 accounts own 5.31M SP between them. They have received 3.95M SP in delegation and have given out 1.52M in delegation. This leaves a controlling SP of 7.73M SP. From the data above we can also see that the 35,739 accounts that posted made over 7.643M posts earning a whopping 2.51 bn in author rewards and also 331.57M in curator rewards.
Taking the same dataset but now adding a filter to exclude any users that have not posted. The 35,739 accounts that have posted own 90% of the SP owned by everyone that joined in June and they are in control of 95% of the controlling SP
There is however a different between the curation rewards earned on all accounts registered in June17 to the accounts with active authors. This difference of 2.05 M or 1.85% of curation reward earned by accounts registered in June 17 went to curators.
We spoke about retention, but just to let you visualised when the accounts were dropping off. The chart below plots the number of days since last post against the no of days registered on Steemit. The deeper the colour the more users.
We can see on the right of this chart high population of deep colours. This represents the users that registered and either never posted or haven’t posted in 350+ days. As we move to the left of the chart we can see the drop off slows down considerably at around 300 days, on the left there is a high concentration of accounts posting, which represents the 6.4% of accounts that have posted in the last 45 days.
So who are the movers and shakers that registered in June ‘17
First I filtering the data to show accounts that never posted. This table was then sorted to show those owning the most SP.
Next I have filtered the data to show the users that have been active in the last 45 days. The table below shows this data sorted by SP owned
And the table below shows the same data but this time sorted the posting rewards earned (shown in vests)
While sorting through this data I found a number of accounts that registered in June 2017 but only made their first or second post in the last 45 days. Welcome back dudes and dudesses. Glad you have joined us.
Looking at all June 2017 accounts now and sorting by the number of posts and comments made.
Finally, I did some totting on data relating to inactive author accounts.
61.4K accounts set up in June 17 have an SP of 50 or less. The total SP owned by these accounts is 115K. Of this 28.84K accounts have never posted or commented. The total of SP owned by these accounts is 19.05K
Conclusion
The % author retention from June 17 is only 6.4%, however these accounts own 91% of the SP owned by all of the accounts registered that month. In the last 45 days, we seen a return of 54 Steemains to the platform that were previously considered dead fish. Although only a small value, it is nice to see this claw back.
How many of the accounts do you recognize?
There are a few familiar names such as 
I also see it’s the birthday of many bots too this month.
