How active and dedicated you are to Steemit

I signed up for Steemit in 2019 but I only started using it in January 2023. I really like writing and drawing, and I thought it might be an opportunity to do it while also having a small income.
So I joined Steemit with some expectations, but also many doubts. Now these doubts have vanished and I'm active with two or three posts a week, sometimes even every day.

The time I spend on Steemit changes from day by day.

However, when I connect to Steemit, I try to dedicate the first part of the time to engagement, I vote and comment on the posts I like. I dedicate myself more to the communities that I frequent more often, which are not many now, i.e. Steem for ladies, WOX and Italy.

Before I attended many more communities, but it becomes very distracting and I can not follow the posts. But sometimes I go out of the communities and go for a ride!

I don't really like it when engagement is forced. For example in the SEC, you need to have 5 comments and 10 likes, because then it becomes a rush to comment, sometimes without even reading the posts. Once I received a copy and pasted comment identical to that of two other users and other times I happened to notice comments from which it was understood that the post had not been read, not only in mine but also in many other posts. So I find that forced engagement doesn't have much value, and takes time away from more spontaneous and genuine engagement, but that's just my opinion.

As for publishing posts this can take a long time. I usually write them at night, or in the afternoon when I'm not working and then publish them in the following days when I'm free.

Personally I mostly follow the contests, because I find that the questions and requests of the contests can give inspiration for many topics. Sometimes reading the posts of the participants I find very different opinions and events and this can be fun, but also a valuable lesson.

Especially since there are very different people and they come from different countries of the world and cultures. Sometimes, despite distance, different religions and languages, our posts are so similar, we want the same things for ourselves and for the people around us, and that also impresses me.

However, the posts I like the most are the ones about drawing, painting and creative writing. Sometimes I also dedicate myself to cooking and travelling.

Instead, I never participate in diary games, because I don't like to tell my day in detail.

In my opinion, to be active on Steemit, it is very important to find a community where you feel accepted. This may depend on the language, on one's country, or on a particular topic that pushes us to interact with people very different from us. For example, art is one of them.

We don't always manage to integrate into a community, it doesn't matter, we can find another one that suits us. I think we have to adapt to some extent, but we can't go against ourselves,
For example, I don't like taking selfies, and apart from the photos in the Achievement 1 verification post, I never post any, so I don't participate in communities where they ask for a selfie for each contest.

Others on the other hand can't write very long texts and may feel discouraged by this, so there are other communities where a particular type of text is not required.

So my advice is to look around the communities and see which one can do for us, try to post and interact and see how it makes us feel.

I'm not a moderator, I think it's quite a difficult task because it requires a lot of time commitment. Furthermore, you have to read and evaluate posts that can sometimes express opinions that are very different from ours and therefore the role of moderator requires great maturity and objectivity.

Maybe one day I'd like to become a moderator, who knows, but I'm not sure how it works, or if I would have the time and skills. I would definitely make a commitment to just one community to be able to dedicate myself to as many posts as possible.

I noticed that some moderators occupy too many roles in many communities and this in my opinion is not an advantage, because the work becomes too much and they can't follow everything. (This is not a problem of Steemit but of many social networks and platforms).

Anyway , there are moderators who are great examples and I hope to learn from them little by little. Even if I will never become a moderator, it will still be a gain in terms of quality for the posts and for the community.