The majority of people with a large stake on steem got there through ring voting, vote trading, vote selling, voting bots
Do you have any statistics to support that? I may be wrong, but my impression has always been that most of the whales got their stake from ninja-mining way before most of us had ever heard of Steem(it).
I spent the better part of two years building close to 1000 followers on steem.
Followers per se are all but worthless. I’d trade a hundred followers for one engaged Steemian in a heartbeat.
Developers within the crypto ecosystem have better choices of blockchains.
Where exactly? There are tons of Ethereum dApps, but most of them have almost no activity. Look at stateofthedapps.com to see which blockchain is kicking ass.
solar's post is literally FUD. Nothing they say is backed up, no supporting evidence. It's such a poor attempt at scaring users I wonder why they even bothered to post it.
Next time you want to influence people, actually provide context and examples to back up your claims, especially when they are so easy to disprove.