Steemit after the initial enthusiasm
Despite my initial enthusiasm on this platform, I am a bit disappointed now.
Is the platform full of fakes and/or bots?
Yes. My first posts got some upvotes and upcomments, latests, which are even better, absolutely nothing than some automated upvote just to try the lottery of "curator reward". Some of them flagged each other too.Who earn from photocontests? Definitely who organize them. Thousands of great pics given for free, that someone select and organize to create pages full of beautiful content, monetized by ads. And it's clear that ads on pages full of great contents are going to pay well.
Is the interest of people something "instagram like" where "I follow you to get a refollow and then I leave you" is the main mantra? Yes. Definitely. There is no real interest on content, there is just interest to create a fanbase, to convert into lot of money possibly.
Will no one read this post? Probably... there are too many people on this platform, and because of feed filter, most of them are not going to see it.
Conclusion: maybe it was a better platform at the beginning, with less content and less people. The assumption that "payment for good content" is going to be an incentive to create good content is just wrong. 7 billions people generate too much good content, and some are going to be more visible than others, as it happens in other medias or social networks.
PS: Add all the errors on the service and we got the complete picture.
The system has some problems like not letting new authors get any visibility even they are very talented. Unless 3rd party tools are used for this, steem will not be very useful for them (and me). I am also developing a website to overcome this issue.
The problem is that the platform should rotate contents to curators. Best curators could just approve new content, to make it rotate. But that's not like this... Building an external site to fix this is like buying a car because the supercar you bought is not working... Being famous cause you're already famous, or rich, is just lame. But you know, with this kind of platforms money goes to who have it at the beginning. Earning from content is just a fable, in every kind of platform. Steemit is no exception to facebook, youtube, myspace... nothing more, but something less definitely.
We think in the same way. I will be building and open sourcing a "super curator" system, which allows approved curators to let the system know how much content should be awarded. It will take the average of minimum 3 super-curators' upvote percentage. Of course we will not fix everything in this capitalist system, but we can let people who have more qualifications get seen more. I like to talk with likemind people like you, if you want to get in touch with me and learn about my "soon to be announced" project which is wikipedia+urban dictionary on steem, i will be waiting you on discord: https://discord.gg/KDbmXyH
I rarely use discord, have you got linkedin?
Yes, sorry for late reply. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithat-erc%C3%BCment-eser-97ab328/ .
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