Meh, if I can help one person then I'd be happy.
I watched an interview recently with the guy who started Minds (they're experimenting with crypto now) and he said Steemit was great except for one thing, the whale economy. The only way to be successful here is to find a whale and get them to follow and upvote you, that's the only way to make money on Steemit (his words, not mine).
It is a true statement.
Now that Mind is flirting with crypto, I expect to see a large exodus from Steemit, their monetary system is a lot more egalitarian than here. All votes on Minds are 'equal' no matter how high or low you are. I've been on Minds for about a year before here.
Only way to make money on steemit is to pay a bot whale to vote for you. because all whales sell their votes. no one here cares about quality of contents, and those who do dont have enough voting power to make any difference. all those people making big money are buying votes. Steemit is a failed system.
Be careful, I criticised Steemit recently and you should have seen the ensuing shitstorm that happened...only from people who were making money off it of course, everyone else agreed with me, lol.
LOL