I feel you man <3
I have these moral doubts for some time now, because whales that endorsed me in the past are gone, and I'm not making money for 4 moths now.
Do you really need to spam whales etc to get any attention?
I see that people that spammed me now make a lot of money.
And I'm like WTF, do we really need to do that?
Don't know. :/
I'm experimenting with vote-bidding bots right now. It seems to be the only way if you don't have any whale friends (like me ).
No whale friends for me as well :( Voting bots are ok for getting some ROI, but what's the point of creating quality content if only paid bots "appreciate" it?.. Kinda sad...
same on every other social media site... and in the real world. Time, consistency and engaging will bring you an audience. You need to market yourself somehow. Commenting thoughtfully a lot will get you on the radar of people.