Whatever happened to Steem? My 1 week journey there.

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Man oh man!

So, the other day I decided to venture back on over to Steem to see what was going on there these days.

I noticed a few things right off the bat.

  1. It still looks the same.
  2. The top posts are mostly in Chinese and/or Korean?
  3. The activity is nowhere to be found.
  4. Communities are terrible.

I was bored and decided to open up an account there. I heard they were giving out TRX rewards for posts now as well. TRX rewards equal your SP rewards.

So, I made a few posts over the last week. My first one did okay. I received $6+ worth of upvotes. But, every post after that received nothing or a few cents.

The biggest amount of upvotes I received on one of those posts was 5. 😝

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Now, I don't claim to be some great author or anything. But, my posts aren't horrible by any stretch. I definitely expected a bit more than what I got. Some posts were cross-posted from HIVE and the interaction and rewards on Hive were FAR FAR FAR superior.

I also noticed the communities are severely lacking as well. The most popular ones seem to be in Chinese. Outside of that and a couple boring English ones, there's really nothing.

I don't understand how people still post there. It reminds me of a graveyard of what was once Steem.

Here is another screenshot of Steem Engine's volume, it's quite sad with the largest 24h volume being only $419 of HIVEP ironically.

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Justin Sun really did kill it after all, huh?

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So...

I was curious if anyone here on LEO or HIVE are still active at Steem? If so, is it really THIS bad now?

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