Hi @dali.soh I understand the sentiment of your comment, but I respectfully disagree.
Maybe that has been your experience, and it's certainly true that there are those on here who are only motivated by monetary gain... but I think that's too simple to say.
If an author is a great and consistent content creator, who am I to care what motivates them? I mean, I care because I'm a curious human but as long as they're genuinely creating content and value, then good for them for the monetary gains they make.
Steemit doesn't have to prove anything to anyone except for the users on the platform. We don't play the facebook twitter games here, we value and reward our community members in all the ways they participate.
And I don't know what you're reading, but my feed is chock full of organically shared, original and valuable content.
I like that you're thinking about this though :) A lot of people seem to expect Steemit (or any new platform, tech, etc) to instantly match the entrenched institutional networks, but it won't go down that way.
Steemit won't fight to rip facebook users away from the teat of their fave echo chamber, it'll just be here waiting and welcoming all the refugees from the old digital neo-feudal system.
Steemit is thug like that.
Well, perhaps. I would consider myself as a pretty new user and it's less than a month since I first started using Steemit. The range of users on Steemit is huge and I'm definitely a poor judge on the posts that actually create real value. I've been following people based on my own interests and I would say that many are just financially motivated. People may perceive value however they want. I'm just looking for alternate opinions on the future development of Steemit.
I definitely appreciate your perspective, Steemit is very different today than it was one year ago... I think it's gonna be very different one year from now too, so I'm always curious about the future development of the platform as well :)