Defining Yourself Outside of Steemit

in #steemit6 years ago

Yeah well, it's been a rough 24 hours, that's true for anyone. So there's no post telling you how much this time has sucked. You're all probably suffering from not being able to post/upvote/comment basically exist in the Steem universe in this time.
I know we've all been a bit testy and things are far from rosy right now, still, with the VP.

But these 24hours (awful though they were) gave me sometime to think. And a lot of time to wish Steemit was back on already so I could write about some of those thoughts. But it wasn't, so I figured I'd make do. A couple of days ago, @richq11 suggested I join WeKu, which you've probably heard of. It's very much like Steemit. And today, being unable to get here, I went there instead.
And like you do on all these sites, I wrote a small Intro post about myself.
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And it was hard. It was hard to talk about myself outside of Steemit. I kept going 'On Steemit, I've done this' and 'On Steemit, I'm that' and it occurred to me how weird that is. I really couldn't think of anything to say about myself that wasn't related to Steemit. I write - on Steemit. I like photography - on Steemit. Basically, everything I wanted to talk about in my introduction was Steemit.

It seems kinda funny, but is it really?

With these 24 hours and with Steemit being down earlier this week, we've really had a "crisis" time here, a time in which most of us have been rightfully pissed at not being able to do what we usually do best. Steeming. We've missed it, it's a fundamental part of ourselves. And that sounds good, sure. But again, is it?

In the past 24 hours, we haven't really known what to do with ourselves. We've been reloading and staring at the screens and checking...some of us even reading old posts (I did do a bit of catching up). And this goes to show what a huge part Steemit has in our lives.

Who are we without Steemit? Do we remember who we were?

Without mentioning Steemit, how would you introduce yourself?

Thank you for reading,

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Thank fuck...I missed this.

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it's actually helped me discover new people too! :)

It seems pretty interesting thus far ;)
Not to mention it's amazing to see your rep go up so damn fast :d

Welcome! I beggin to follow you, i hope that you follow me :)

Awesome pic, and I probably had that facial expression as well. :)

I'm not going to spend much time looking into other sites like Steemit. WeKu seems sketchy but I might see about whaleshares.io. The same thing happened in the early days of YouTube. Competitors sprang up promising to fix whatever was wrong with YouTube. The majority of them are out of business and YouTube remains #1 for videos. I feel that Steemit will remain #1 for blockchain social networking.

Normally I'd be up voting this, but we're in a Vote Power regeneration state for the next 4 days, due to Hard Fork 20. But expect my continued Vote support once things are back to normal around here! :)

Nah don't worry, K, votes mean next to nothing nowadays, so...Hmm, I guess you might be right. I certainly don't believe that WeKu is fixing everything wrong with Steem. I'm not abandoning ship that easy, but I thought it'd be fun to try...It reminded me of my long-lost Steemit sniff.

i feel like i am having voting withdrawals :) really happy to see people posting and using my time to engage and meet new people, my discord has kept me busy but too much discord and not enough steemit is really not fun :)

I know what you mean - I suffer from those too! Yeah, I agree, I can't see the point of chatting without Steem (but then again, I don't seem to see the point of anything without Steem :D). Let's hope things go back to normal soon!

this is what i am really hoping for, i was happy we had a lot of fun and interactions on my discord at least the past few day...but i am hoping to get some cleaning done in my studio and get ready for the rush to hit!!

My name is Tim Thomas and I am passionate about cryptos and decentralization. I am an old school anarchist that believes in solutions and not just complaining. 😎