It's certainly a different experience. On Insta and the likes you have to be the very very best to make a little money - by being an influencer and receiving clothes or tools or... even money for sharing a post from someone else. On Steem it can be really good or okay content and more or less the same rewards come your way. Plus as RS above says: we have no tools here to make things look pretty. I do like the steempeak.com/@soyrosa/portfolio though - that's really the best thing we have on Steem. Also on steempeak you can now make a post with multiple images and pick which one is your thumbnail.

Progress. Patience. Great pic by the way, very 'innocent' look - very Insta-worthy ;-)