Over the last weeks I've been seeing my number of followers inching up towards 4000 and today it passed that milestone.
It's cool to see such a big number, but I'm aware that only a fraction of those are actively viewing my posts. It may just be a few percent, but that's enough to give me lots of good comments.
From the stats I've seen only about 7% of Steemit accounts may be active. The recent fall in the Steem price will not have helped those numbers, but last night's rally may bring people back. This has again mostly come from Korea. Perhaps the update from the Steemit team helped to boost confidence.
We have a great platform here, but growth is not guaranteed. Users want to see more innovation and scalability. It's still hard to start a new account and being noticed takes a lot of work. I think it should be hard to succeed. You need to work to make money and we want it going to those who deserve it.
Talking of those who deserve it, I received some flags for daring to criticise a certain 'cryptocurrency technical analyst' yesterday. One of his stooges flagged my comments and those of people I was talking to. They have a nice little earner going on there and don't like it threatened.
Luckily my reputation is strong enough to survive that, but others have really been hammered. I've built my reputation by being active on Steemit and people seem to (mostly) appreciate what I do. You can see I have posted and commented a lot. I don't ask for votes or follows. I leave it to people to decide if I'm worthy. Okay, so I do ask for votes in the open mic contest, but they can be tiny ones and I don't expect to win anyway. I want to see the community supporting all the great musicians taking part.
So I think we are generally in a good place. Success is not to be taken for granted, but the potential is there. There are those who just want to take, but we also have lots of people who want to build something amazing.
I'll be discussing all this with some fine Steemians at 
I'd also like to thank 
Steem on to infinity, and beyond!
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