What is the Gini coefficient of steemit?

You are a minnow, shark or whale. There has been much discussion in recent posts on steemit.

Votes matter here, but default clicks go to "trending" where $$$ dominates.

To see the distribution of "trending power" better, I calculated the Gini coefficient from steemd.com/distribution. It is ...
0.988

Visually, it looks like this:

But, since the graph shows individual investment and not earnings, the Gini coefficient won't be useful as a comparison to, say, the U.S. (0.41 in 2013) or Ukraine (0.24 in 2013). Also, because of incentives to joining steem, we expect to see a long tail of minnows. It would be interesting to compare against other social media giants (their zero-value minnow list is the whole user base!)

The problem is with this inequality, the disparity between number of votes received (popular) and $SD (trending) will lead to high variance in $SD earned, making the site less reliable as a source of income from dedicated posters. Defaulting the home page to "trending" instead of "popular" or "hot" does lure posters looking to make money but is a tradeoff with what the users want to see.

Conclusion: switch to "popular" "new" and "hot"!

* Some previous discussion of the reward system: https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/overhaul-of-curation-rewards

Reference: Gini calculation