Followers On Steemit Is NOT Key To SUCCESS. by hitmeasap

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Followers On Steemit Is NOT Key To SUCCESS.
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<center><h2>The Social Aspect Is Long Gone.</h2></center>

We've heard it many times before; *Steemit is a social media platform.* I have said those exact words many, many times and I have always said that quality will be rewarded *sooner or later.*

The truth is, that it's all **bullshit**, and no matter if you like it or not, it's still the truth and the reality we live in. Steemit is **not** like Fakebook, Twatter or YouBoob in **any** way. 

And don't take this the wrong way, I truly appreciate everything that users like @abh12345 are doing with the curation and engagement **leagues** and I'm definitely not alone loving these things. They are **great** and **awesome**, but, they should **not** exist to begin with.

If Steemit truly is a **social** platform... 
**Why** are we so desperately in need of curation and engagement leagues?

Like I previously said, Steemit is **not** a social platform, because the social aspect on Steemit is almost **non-existent**. There are some exceptions obviously, like always. We have different initiatives and some amazing Steemians out there trying to do whatever they can to interact, discuss, comment and manually curate **quality** content, but the truth is, that it's basically **useless**, as long as Steemit is what it is today.

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*This is taken directly from http://www.steemspectacles.com/.*</center>

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I have been a member on Steemit since July 2016. I have written almost **800** articles and well-more than **5000** comments during that time. 5,324 to be exact. I have never participated in any form of *follow-for-follow* or *vote-for-vote* type of deals, so **all** my followers are **organic** and **real**. Those who follow me, have decided to do so out of their own free will...

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I have 1677 **dead** followers in total, so my **real** number would be: **1394** followers. However, **323** followers out of 3371, have engaged with any of my 100 latest posts meanwhile 3048 followers didn't. That means that about 10% of my followers cares about my content.

Sure, this could obviously be due to the things I post, and I'm sure it's a **fact** when it comes to my rather recent dlive streams. It's nothing much to say about it, as those who're interested usually interact in the chat and not by writing comments in those posts. But, you can take a look at **any** other Steemian, and you'll find **similar** results.

As I've already mentioned Asher, I'll use him as an example once again.

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<center>![abh12345.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmerNDSBmUZRUyaNNmgKHinetPsvNcHLptSo7w2yGFt4ib/abh12345.png)</center>

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More than **6000** dead followers. Almost **10000** followers haven't engaged with his 100 recent posts. So even though he is a truly great guy, working his ass off doing charts and all the things he do... About 90% of his audience **ignores** him.

I have been a member for more than 2 years and I've gained **300+** followers who cares about my content enough to engage in one or more posts out of 100.

Do you **still** believe that Steemit is a **social** platform?

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If I were to publish more than **6000** posts on Facebook or twitter, I promise you that I'd get more than a measly **~300** followers... And I would get that, because those **are** social platforms. Steemit is **not** about quality or content. Steemit is like a garbage can, with one **major** difference compared to any other place. Steemit is a money-making machine, where you get paid for **whatever** shit you do. - And that's a **fact**.

It doesn't matter much **what** you publish, or how many hours you spend writing your articles. Doing things like research, interviews or other time consuming things doesn't matter. How you write, what you write and if you use sources or not doesn't matter much either... Except for very few. 

Why do you think so many of these so-called *established* Steemians either have  **stopped** to write articles **or** on the contrary, have started to publish more articles per day than they did a year or two from now? - Because they either earn from delegations or by selling votes, **or** they produce articles of **less** quality compared to how it was during the *"golden days"*.

This brutal reality, and the fact that what matters on Steemit is essentially **two** things: **Who** you know and how much you spend buying votes, are the **main** reasons for Steemit to **never** really **boom** and get millions of users. People **leave** even before they've really tried it, because they feel discouraged and end up in despair and anxiety when the reality kicks in.

DLive, DTube and all these up and coming DApps. Those are what eventually will **define** Steemit. Steemit is **not** a blogging platform. It's simply put, just a platform. It's like a hard drive where you store shit... Truth to be told, it's probably easier to get hacked, than to get recognition and support from a whale nowadays. So stop thinking about it.

Steemit is about **who** you know, and not about how **many** followers you have. And even though I am well-aware of things like this, I am **still** trying to push people in to **minnow-status** and I still delegate almost 100% of my Steem Power to the @asapers. Because I truly believe that Steemit **would** be a better place, if people started to treat Steemit like a place where we could **socialize**.

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@tillysfamilyfarm ·
Turns out over 100 of my 600 followers are dead....good to know. I appreciate knowing the link to find out.
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@hitmeasap ·
You have 698 followers in total. 644 of those are ghost followers and 198 is dead. So the question is: Is this because of **you** or is it due to something else?

I'm sure it's due to everything **except** you... But these results we see are still horrifying.
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@allseeingewe ·
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Yeah, it is pretty lonesome sometimes but it sure beats the hell out of all the duckface-n-food pix over on FaceBonk and the endless victimy victim culture of Twatter. Whenever I wander over to those places and see the rampant desperation I'm like...

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@frankbacon ·
Highly rEsteemed!

![Mace Swinging Thugs.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZsBxGs17Eix5F1KHR5ybYho95i7UpyXuuyt9ei1yF5U2/Mace%20Swinging%20Thugs.png)
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@phoenixwren ·
My dead + ghost followers equals MORE than my followers?  How is that possible?
Well, it explains why I feel like I'm shouting into a void.
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@hitmeasap ·
You can't count like that. :)

You have 1010 followers in total. 861 of your total are ghosts and 289 followers of your total are dead. But yeah, it's still far away from how good it sounds having thousands of followers... ^^
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@phoenixwren ·
So you're saying the dead count as dead AND ghosts?
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@erodedthoughts ·
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>It's simply put, just a platform. It's like a hard drive where you store shit... Truth to be told, it's probably easier to get hacked, than to get recognition and support from a whale nowadays. So stop thinking about it.

Looking at Steemitboard most "whales" are considered dead.......

<center>![Screenshot_2018-09-13 Steemit - Board of Honor.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPQhAXbqBEAKzQBpjmMLAv8m3KNH64qTrQhqfZucw7e2A/Screenshot_2018-09-13%20Steemit%20-%20Board%20of%20Honor.png)</center>

Poor freedom.......
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@bashadow ·
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Say you had 10,000 followers on FB, YT or any of the others, how many of those followers on your social media account interacted in the last 100 days? I don't FB, YT or have any other social media account myself, and I am one of those that is not used to the following game that I guess most others are. I do like giving a vote to the post that I comment on, and with the current price drop in steem it makes it difficult to do that, or to reward those that visit my post and comment with a vote. 

I use steemit as a social media type site I think. You see I am not sure if I really do, to me a social media site is where one is social toward people. I tried all the ones you mentioned, and did not make it past a couple weeks for most of them, I did not see the social aspect of them.  I did see a lot of bullying, and meanness and anti-social behavior, and very little social behavior.

The reality is that the number of followers mean nothing on steemit. I some followers out of them maybe on a regular basis 75 might somewhat interact with my account. I follow 117 people/accounts on steemit myself, I might interact with 25 of them on a regular basis. In addition to my follower list I have another list that I look through when I want to find a story to relax with some light reading. A list of authors, and I do add to that list on occasion when I find a new writer.

I have had one or two bully type incidents on steemit, but they were just minor things. So the bullying I myself do not experience very much on steemit. I know some do. I don't really **Know** anyone on steemit. I do participate in Ashers League of engagement, but the term participate is really a misnomer, I just use it to see where I can improve or how I am doing in my own goal of using steemit as a social platform. While I may not **Know** anyone, I do find I can interact with people on a somewhat regular basis. I could pop into steemchat or discord chat and, well chat, if I felt like it.

I don't know what people expect out of a **Social Media** site. I have met a few people as I said that I have no problem interacting with, I think most people can find someone they have no problem interacting with if they put a little effort into it. So far I have been working on this response for about fifteen minutes, there simply is not enough time in one day to spend that much time on 117 responses, so it would at times depending on the day that some people are not going to be interacted with by me. I do not consider a vote a form of engagement.

So steemit may not be a **Social Media** site, but it is a place a person can share a little bit of their life a few of their thoughts and a place to meet and interact with people from all over and around the world. It's not perfect, but then again not much in the world is.
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@hitmeasap ·
Thank you very much for the comment, I appreciate it. 

> how many of those followers on your social media account interacted in the last 100 days?

Well, I'd say that most of them would interact in 100 days. If we say *posts* instead, I'd still think that the majority of my friends on Facebook would interact with at least 1 out of 100 posts.

However, I don't use Facebook and I don't have an active account on there, but most of my friends are still using their accounts on a daily basis. I stopped using Facebook because it felt awkward. I couldn't understand the reason for people to publicly share photos of their breakfasts or photos of them going to the gym or not. I stopped caring about them and I left.

That's also pretty much identical to Steemit. Except for the fact that people don't really care about the things you post or the things they publish, as long as they get rewarded for it... People leave Steemit due to the lack of rewards first hand meanwhile I left Facebook due to the **content**.

I stayed on Steemit, due to the rewards **and** the quality. I stayed because I saw an incredible opportunity. Quality articles were rewarded, and Steemit was always about quality... To see the quality vanish, also takes away much of the opportunity and the potential I saw from the beginning.

That's why I'm eager to make minnows and to contribute as much as I possibly can. Because I want people to feel what I felt when I joined. I want to bring back quality to this platform.

It's obviously impossible to talk with 100+ people per day, no matter if you're on Steemit or on Facebook or twitter... But it's not rocket science to see that the overall social aspect is missing on Steemit. Take a look at any of the 50 top articles on the trending page for instance. Not even 50% of the authors replies to their audience... - And that's an ugly sight if we're on a social platform.
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@bashadow ·
> Take a look at any of the 50 top articles on the trending page for instance. Not even 50% of the authors replies to their audience... - And that's an ugly sight if we're on a social platform.

That lack of response is a problem. But the majority of the stuff on the trending pages seem to be purchased. Those that want to get to the trending page are interested in the financial rewards, and not so much in what people think of their content. There are some good social aspects to steemit, and some bad ones. 

I myself do not like seeing the steepshot post, the actifit post the dlike post the steemhunt post excetera, to me they are all pretty much garbage and as bad as the trending page. Others I know like the quick twitter type apps, to me they are a waste of space, but to each their own, I can easily skip over them.
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@empress-eremmy ·
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I think it is because everyone is too busy trying to lift themselves up without really caring about others. If we paid attention to others as much as ourselves, steemit will be better. That is why I like the engagement league and all it has to offer. But you're largely right though, who you know does matter a lot
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@ecoinstant · (edited)
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I feel you but this apple to oranges stuff is bs.

I have 1000+ follower on fb (people who know me, are related to me or have at least met me) and I bet if we ran the same algorithm it would be less than 30 non dead non ghost.

Your last 100 posts, according to that site, includes comments.  I comment so much, I can't expect all of my followers to curate my comment feed.  

There is some social aspect to this site.  For me, its a billion times better than anything I have ever gotten on facebook, which since 2006 has been basically snark, derision and, most recently, algorithmic invisibility.

Your opinion is valid, but perhaps over-reactionary, your guess that 

>I'd still think that the majority of my friends on Facebook would interact with at least 1 out of 100 posts.

>**However, I don't use Facebook and I don't have an active account on there**

reveals that you have't used facebook recently  (since the algorithmic invisibility feature was introduced) or ever considered that the comments you leave on others peoples fb posts dont get much play either.

That said, Dapps are the future, steemit is the unsupported everything drawer.  Its true.
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@hitmeasap ·
I haven't used Facebook in more than 2 years now, so I had to idea about an *algorithmic invisibility feature*. Thanks for sharing. 

I can't agree with you about the comments though. I don't know how it would be today, but when I still used my account, it was definitely more "social" than Steemit. That being said, my reactions might be how they are because I still think about how it was 2 years ago here on Steemit... It might be, that I'm stuck in the past and have problems with how things have developed with time.
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@ecoinstant ·
:)  Your response totally made me nostalgic.

It's true there was a golden age of these things, I guess I remember back in the college dorms we would use facebook for all sorts of stuff, and comment and like things about whether we were going to this or that party or club activity.

Maybe I'm just getting cranky and old and saying that that sort of social is something that I don't value anymore, if I could have it, which I can't. (sour grapes?)

It also depends on what you are sharing.  What some people ate for breakfast does seem to get good play. But the comments are usually things we would consider spam on steemit.  ('social' is spammy?)

When I make or do something its usually the same bunch of aunts that are happy to realize that we are still alive and haven't died in the jungle.  I get none of the steem gold which is a random person on another continent showing up and really seeming to appreciate some minute detail of what we've done. 

Steem is way different, but I have felt deeply social discussing deeper issues of life and sharing photography.   Its not every post though, I guess I think of it as my permanent repository, so I also 'store' things on here that I might want to look at or show later.

Also, I have been a part of multiple internet communities in my day, so its possible that I am more accustomed to the intricacies of 'forum culture' and website lore that develop uniquely in each community.  

I'm rambling now, but I guess that its a good topic to think about, and my thesis is that only 90% of followers are crap and a small subset have been really valuable to me.
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@simplymike ·
I agree on the follower aspect. Personally, I rarely look at my feed. The people I really want to follow up on, I haveset up in Ginabot, so I get a notification when they've made a new post. 

If I want to find new, interesting posts, I have my resources on Discord, or I use the tag feeds. 

So basically, I the perfect example of the fact that the number of followers is not important.

On the other hand: most of the articles I read have been written by people I don't follow. Maybe the people I follow feel ignored by me, but who knows how many non-followers read their articles...

I don't really see the link with your second statement, that the only thing that matters here is who you know and how much money you have. Which is true - I just don't see the link :0)

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@kaerpediem ·
Ouch!!
But I agree, it is what it is..
It is Steemians like you who continue to support and reach out that keeps this platform going.
So thank you for all you do even if it looks dismal but you do what you can for the handful that are working at it and fingers crossed it has a butterfly effect ❤️
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