As a new user I've got to agree with you.
I see @Digitaldreamer's point in looking at this as an acceptable investment. Write something decent, buy a bot, hopefully, make a bit of a return on your investment. It's better than FB advertising and simpler than a funnel.
Personally, though, it's not very enticing for new blood who is looking to write due to passion.
The community seems to have limited interests.
The demographics looks to be horribly lopsided, which reduces the sort of following you can gather and limits other potential successes like cultivating clients or book deals.
(Unless of course your target demographic are white dudes interested in cryptocurrency and gaming.)
- The nature of the system being so linked to immediate payout creates a parasitic environment. I mean who would come here just to browse?
I haven't seen enough to really get my barrings yet but it seems like it's all the marketers of FB with none of the non invested audience. This shifts the focus from a person experiencing good content to them simply trying to make content that pays and interact enough with others to get paid more.
Steemit is unlike anything I've seen before. You can't compare it with existing platforms because it works differently.
With Facebook, you (the user) are the product. Advertisers buy your attention.
In Steemit, the money comes from mining but instead of being owned entirely by the miners (witnesses), a bigger portion of the mined steem is distributed to contributors.
You may be right about the demography of users. You're also right that the posts here are targeted mainly at existing users. Why would you go to steemit to look for health tips? Steemit users are those who are already interested in cryptocurrency. Understandably, the majority of posts will be about crypto.
Still, the platform has tremendous potential and it's up to us to realize them.
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Well its up to the elites, not us. Its just become like a "Central Banking System, controlled by elites". I know this sounds pessimistic and negative, but trust me when time comes, these pricks will realize their mistakes, coz im sure something similar and better is coming soon.
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And I just figured out how to check my replies haha.
I hear you @digitaldreamer on it being unlike FB or other platforms. The question I have then is if the nature of the beast it is any good? How far can a system go if it is established to create "great content" but the only drive to create that content is in sharing content about that content or botting just running bots?
If as @veerall points out the elites acted differently, perhaps cultivating the space more as patrons rather than the aristocracy or kids raised on the SNL of the 90s it could diversify a lot more.
Honestly, I'm still going to give it a shot. I'm just not sure what the motivation is to contribute here solely if you're more about reaching people rather than talking cryptocurrency?
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Problem is, steemit was made by a genius who left it in the middle to the hands of greedy morons.
These morons are like "Teenage kids with unlimited alcohol driving a Ferrari."
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I've seen a lot of Cartmans running around bragging about trolling eachother.
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