Pondering agitators sometimes wonder why so many people quit using Steemit. I think a big reason is because they start out full of hope, and they are looking for the next big thing. But after a while they realise that Steemit is another big work in progress with a bunch of things that need fixing. And also it requires putting in quite a lot of effort to get anywhere. So like everything, it's far from perfect. I can't fully explain why, but for some reason I've always had a soft spot for Steemit, ever since I started using it in 2016.
A few years ago I quit using fakebook because I loathed it. But being into photos, I still used Instagram and used to think it was pretty cool. But it was owned by fakebook and once I woke up and stopped using fakebook, I had to quit Instagram as well. That was easy because they went and changed the feed and instead of being chronological it became an order determined by them, and I happily quit using it that day - bugger that for a joke.
In April 2012, fakebook acquired Instagram for US$1 billion. As of October 2015, over 40 billion photos had been uploaded to the service. Although praised for its influence, Instagram has been the subject of criticism, most notably for policy and interface changes, and allegations of censorship.
This is my parting message that heads up my Instagram page to this day:
"Thanks for all the fish. Instagram censorship and photo ownership has moved me along to Steemit - I don't play on anything owned by fakebook..."
Back in the old days I used to post hundreds of groovy little square photos - here are five of them:
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Now that would have been me! - I used to do a lot of purple framed square photos on Steemit too but I'm more into 16x9 with rounded corners now...
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And here is the perfect example of why central-bank-crypto-currencies will fail.
I bet the f-c-book programmers thought they where helping out instagram by "making the feed better". However, what they were killing was the real experience and the usefulness of the platform.
In effect, f-c-book thought that they would just tweak things to make it a little better for advertisers, not realizing that the tweak basically destroyed the user experience.
And then f-c-book started working on emotional manipulation algorithms. This ended with a useless experience, that slowly made you crazy. You go there expecting one emotion and you get another. Its like someone Gaslighting you. It is what psychopaths do. Its crazy making, and f-c-book should be held accountable.
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They love their money but I think what they love even more is the mind control aspect
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It's hard not to have a soft spot for a place that brought such amazing people into my scope, no matter what happens the connections I've made with people like yourself made it a hundred percent worthwhile :-)
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Yeah - despite that not being mentioned much, I think the people are the real strength of Steemit. Sort of the opposite of youtube where everyone who comments is retarded, here there are several intelligent people :)
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My buddy who listens to too much talk radio said Obama is going to implant an app called Illuminati into all our necks, and that's going to replace Facebook, and instagram anyway.
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I think he already did that and they are called smart phones with gps!
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You are heading in the right direction to discover something better. :)
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On several!?
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Maybe a dozen!
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Maybe less.
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I feel like steemit is following me now 😂 Thats exactly what i wanted to do and i did it (Eventhough i sometimes post on insta). Since I'm very new to steemit, it feels kind of refreshing to find genuine people (and bots 😋).
Even now, posting on insta feels like having a smoke after really long.
Good luck mate!
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