Team Europe and some other stuff
No, nope, that isn't a salutary creative group portrait of the new "Team Europe", although, I admit, these pictures below I have made in Europe! :)
In particular, at the beautiful mountain of Rhodope in Bulgaria.
Perhaps you've noticed, but I was a bit busier lately, with some reconstruction work in progress in our house and also some necessary trips.
Today, returning to Steemit for some proper time, I was thrilled to read about the new Team Europe (read more here: https://steemit.com/hive-128129/@chriddi/team-europe-is-ready )
Kudos for the the decision of the Steemit Team to discontinue the “Steem Representatives” and "Booming" projects, although, looking in the corresponding community, it doesn't feel this was fully executed, if at all.
In the long run, I truly believe, this is great news for STEEM, as this change will bring more diversity on the blockchain and probably new people from new countries.
I have to admit I was never in favour of focusing the Steemit Team support on particular groups of people from certain regions of the world, as this generally tell all other bloggers, their creative works are of less value (given the much smaller rewards they get). Then, in turn, with time, such bloggers loose interest to share their best works.
I foresee a better future for STEEM as of now. I hope these plans make changes in the positive way.
I am also looking forward for a lively "STEEM Europe" community, moderated and curated by that same Team Europe and perhaps more people will join ;) :)
If/when it appears, I'll be supporting and curating the content there, with pleasure :)
Let's turn to photography now ;)
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The news seems great, reblogging.
STEEM to the Moon!
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Ditto :)
Cheers and have a lovely weekend!
Let's do whatever we can to bring it closer to our satellite :P
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I'm doing my part for sure, no power-downs yet, I am converting STEEM to SBD and plan for some power-ups if all is good.
STEEM to the Moon!
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Not a bad way to invest, I guess. Keep it up! :)
Upvoted! Thank you for supporting witness @jswit.
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Thank you for promoting our team. I'm really excited about your enthusiasm - I'm starting to think our project is pretty good myself... 😂
The boys and I haven't been selected yet. Assuming that our application is successful (the many positive responses don't really suggest otherwise...), let's first work in peace and get to grips with the chaos that will probably ensue at first... 😉
Then we can think and talk together about the "Community STEEM Europe" project (and also some concerns that I personally have about it).
Step by step ‘Make Europe great again!’... 🤪
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I am absolutely sure this would be/is a great project already.
Chaos, especially in our creative "business" here, may be quite positive. Let's experiment, I expect mostly good outcomes from all of it.
BReturn is one of my favorite newest words, I'd love to work in that direction, avoiding politics on the road, if possible, LOL. I love the freedom we all had before brexit...
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I saw an interesting comment earlier today, implying that if other "nations" did the same, whether it would be accepted. Which led me to think that maybe out of the 11 voting accounts, there's an account for each continent to focus on. I wouldn't like the idea of voting purely on European authors but it would give a greater sense of "fairness" (and also the existing, unspoken biases can be explicit).
Whatever happens, hopefully this shift will be noticeable, rather than the same people doing what they've always done under a different label.
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I totally understand that.
I was trying to pick my words very carefully to avoid stepping on someone's toe.
Actually, I think this "favouring" happens naturally with time as if we compare an average monthly salary (representing the standard of living in a way), let's say in UK (few thousand GBP) with Venezuela (under 10 USD) and given the steemcurators1 & 2 votes are about the same, divided by 3 on each report, then it appears people, who are a bit financially misfortunate to be employed there are getting quite a remuneration with each weekly report.
I bet there are even some who only "work" here on STEEM ;)
Then those curators tend to reward their friends and people closer to them, their compatriots, etc. That's normal but not diverse. I think this is the main Steemit Team is trying to improve. This disbalance.
I guess we, who live in Europe, do it more for the pleasure and passion, as in the latest years depending only on steemit, isn't enough to make a proper living around. Still, I am sure that everyone would love to see a more balanced rewarding.
There are plenty of regional and country-specific communities already, so I don't see any problem we enjoy some European support.
Moreover, we have so many beautiful things to share ahead :)
Cheers :)