I tried experimenting with D-Tube in the past and found it completely unreliable. Not to mention that brand awareness of the platform is non-existent; it has no chance of ever replacing mainstream services while it continues to be unreliable and still lacks a userbase, applications for other devices and so on. Maybe I’m missing the point to an extent, but that’s my feelings on the subject. While I may hope that DTube can come good one day, there is still a lot of work to be done.

Most services based on Steemit won’t have a real future if they can only appeal to a few crypto-nerds with excessive amounts of faith in the platform; especially those that are probably unemployable in the outside world. It needs to challenge Twitter, Facebook and YouTube head on; otherwise it will just become an incestuous little ‘community’ that offers no value for anybody.

I also believe that many people don’t ever read content or watch videos, they just want to be rewarded a share of the upvote payouts or get an upvote themselves. Many people were definitely gaming Steemit for the sake of even smaller amounts than you mentioned; especially third world users that plagiarised content on a regular basis.

Anyway, I’m pleased to see that you would dare to voice your true views on the matter, unlike many others that seem to only ever praise everything on Steemit for fear of reprisals. I’ve even quoted your post in my latest piece that attempts to be a little more positive, yet takes into account problems facing the platform - https://busy.org/@strayenglishman/reasons-to-feel-optimistic-about-steem