Thank you - I appreciate you taking the effort to reply and engage with me.
I only came on here to as I am lookng at the use case of every coin/token in the top 50 on coinmarket cap. I thought steem sounded awesome as I use twitter a lot and the idea of getting rewarded and no censorship sounded great.
But I have less censorship on twitter than here at the moment. I've been flagged to the point where I can't even upload images. That has never happened to me on twitter or facebook. Either I have changed and become some sort of nutter that needs flagging or this platform is too concentrated in the hands of a few.
It will be interesting to see how this develops as I know it's very early days yet.
As for uploading, it's not part of Steem, it's part of steemit.com site, there's for example also busy.org (I'm not sure how does it look like out there, i.e. if reputation is a limiter for uploading). Regardless, you can always use 3rd party site to upload your photos to and link to them from your post.
Busy is what I use most of the time and it has the same limitation when your "reputation" drops.
I am not a techie, so finding other avenues to upload onto the blockchain is a hurdle too far right now.
I am inviting others to join and it's important I understand the pros and cons of the platform