I love good stats, I appreciate what you do for the users of steem. Its a complex system, and this information is so helpful for a broad array of understandings.
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Bots are definitely a major issue. Ultimately bots will be shaped with second tier moderation.
Steemit as it is, and relying on solely the "proof of brain" algorithm will never do a good enough job at filtering content in a way people want to see it. There is just too much emphasis on what the whales want you to see / self promotion.
Steem is a content market we should call it for what it is, and in that sense also a plutocracy. Ive been realizing that the culture of steem will always bend its knee towards the most selfish actors because of the way the inflation works. Im seeing steem as being a incentivized way of building communities, but more tools to make it easy to build websites on top of steem and tools for groups of curators to work together.
Once there are more focused efforts to fund high quality and focused content on top of the steem platform, with the least developer overhead, when advanced users can come together and create incentives through a moderated purse of funds and good filtering... Then users will flow in naturally.
Look at reddit. Reddit bloomed through the "sub reddit" a user maintained group, and the promise of "wisdom of the crowd". The widom of reddit is owned by sybil attacks by marketers and governments. On steem its a bit more transparent, but is so lopsided towards those who have money in the system, and people who have money in the system are likely a very specific subset of people (crypto nerds). On top of this, steem's genisis and economic distribution makes it even unfriendly to many in that subset.
So if we are going to attract users from outside, steem needs to embrace competition in browsers and really push it.
I have a small stake in steem, but I do my best to support artists get above the noise level so they can be seen by some larger accounts. However so many of them turn to voting bots to get some visibility... Something is wrong there.
the communities feature should help with this. I cant wait for the community features, I really think it will make a much needed impact