Delegation and bidbots did not "suck up[" all the curation, that ius just not true at all. Dplease donty confuse your own experience with the whole of steem. I bet you were just using steem more and actually upvoting more stuff back then, thats all
You should just use steem more! You've been here since August 2016 You should have a lot more steempower baby now in 2 whole years :D Just post more!
May I suggest @steepshot app and also using Dlive to make live streams with OBS studio software its easy, you should just become a local steemian rtep in your area, theres lots of delegationa nd upvotes for people who bring TALENT to stee,m not just their friends with "talent" but real talent from youtube instagram reddit where all ythe real internet is
I think you must remember bid bots are just a fact of life its just what happens when people learn to use steem and sell their vote! You cants top it! Steem is more complicated than just some place for authors and curators its also for investors! And steembottracker.com has shown what this new decentralized steem powered advertising system looks like! This is just the will of the majority of steempower holders so we have no choice but to accept it or fork into our own version of steem which isn't going to happen sop we must accept the way steem is, no going back. If you like no delegation and quadratic rewards you can try Golos, that's just what they are and look at them, its almopst dead :D it will come back but yeah its sad, we needed delegation and bid bots they kept steem ALIVE, not the other way aaround!
I just sense a lot of minnows think they woulda made more money somehow without bid bots but its just not true! they are the ones holding this place up!
Damnit, ackza, i had a good comment made for you, but it looks like i didnt post it.
When i get back to a keyboard i will try to replicate it.