I know what you mean. A lot of upvotes are bots and people are incentiviced to vote for things, because they will get a part of it. I am only making crumbs with my posts, but that is more than I earned on Instagram with my photos!
I now use steemfollower, which is like and upvote trading place, which works well because 2 people I follow (@Captainklaus and @Valorforfreedom) are there aswell, when I upvote them through steemfollower, I get points to get votes!
I put about 1500 SP I bought with Ethereum, which I now delegated to @Jerrybanfield, for which I get about 1 SBD daily. This works better than curating myself( best I got was about 0.75 SBD daily, taking hours).
I did plan to do this but, I had to adapt.
TL;DR:
You have adapt and change as steemit develops, technically it is still in beta! Keep the faith and Steem on!
I'm keep telling myself this, it's still beta, you need to stick around, things will turn around again!
Thank you for kind words, and glad you commented, I just checked your profile, you have some nice shots!
Followed you! Hope we will stay in touch!
Thanks. It helps to "shop" around for opportunities. Looking forward to your future posts.
you have a new follower now. i also follow both of those guys but have not used steemfollower yet