This shit is fucking ridiculous. Steemit has been turned into (or was it originally created to be?) a massive "CASH GRAB". Infighting aside, the consolidation of "POWER" by the "HAVES" (whales)have driven #Steemit into a perfect recreation of the financial/political system that most of us have been fighting against for years. The "HAVE NOTS" (minnows- though I personally find that term kinda derogatory) still have nothing- no power and no voice.
I wrote about this just last week How to Become a Steemit Whale... where I said that:
the only votes that count are those from the "HAVES"...This system is Broken.
Just like the system that we all love to hate. Steemit is a world where the only voices that count, are the 1%.
Welcome to Wall Street.
Steemit has the intrinsic ability to pull the rug out from under all the main stream social media like Facebook and Instagram etal..... but right now, a huge amount of people who are actually bringing REAL, HIGH QUALITY CONTENT to Steemit, are leaving. And those who've been sitting on the sidelines watching and observing Steemit have witnessed this bullshit and are not even bothering to join up, because they already see it as a lost cause.
I'm remaining on Steemit because I believe in the power of the Steem blockchain, and I am using it to make sure that my content is safe from censorship and deletion..... But as a community/social media platform.... Steemit is failing rapidly. And the number one reason that is happening is because of it's Pyramid structure, which makes it virtually impossible for anyone else to have an actual voice within the community.
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Agree with you one many instances. It needs to be improved significantly, if we want to actually keep the people on the platform. I'm guessing even more will leave if things don't start to look better.