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RE: 1 simple reason Steemit is a pile of shit and how to change it
i know what you're talking about. This place is a circle jerk.
The big fallacy is that everyone is a content creator. That's bullshit. I'm a content consumer and the content around here sux. I keep checking in but the only community forming here is steemit fanboys and girls.
I don't spend time on reddit reading, talking and learning about reddit. I spend time in news, politics, crypto, ELI5, TIL, etc and quite often the comments are funnier and more illuminating than the post.
I see none of that here.
This pretty much sums it up and explains the 50% decline in usage in one month...
And the idea that professional writers were to be hosted on Steemit is a distant, abandoned illusion.
Then it gets interesting as Dan today posts a call to Revolution...
To build an "illusive utopia" and a "new social structure", etc.
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@dantheman/why-do-we-fight-to-change-the-world
On it's face this is a perfectly decent article of millennial, crypto-anarchist rhetoric...
In a cozy American world where you've never missed a meal and Hitler is a Youtube meme...
And dedicated Islamists with dirty nuclear bombs and mutant viruses can be safely ignored for a few more years.
But the author seems unaware that he recently recreated the Medieval Order on a blockchain...
Where 50 rich Lords rule over large masses of penniless Serfs for all eternity...
In fact, eerily similar to the Hunger Games where Lords dispense lottery rewards to the odd Serf...
Something that can be viewed as "utopia" only by a rich Lord.
Personally, I would prefer a realistic Roadmap and Business Plan (in addition to the call for Revolution).
I really appreciate you took the time to share your feelings. I agree that on it's face dantheman's post seems genuine and also agree he seems unaware how his own ego makes him think that he has reached enlightenment.
dantheman says "Any economic system of voluntary rules and incentives I create will struggle to gain traction unless it is used and operated by enlightened individuals."
Rules dantheman creates may be voluntary for others, but the choices will be follow them or go elsewhere and I'm afraid if some of the "enlightened" whales on Steemit don't start accepting that controversy and debate should be encouraged on this platform they will kill this platform with kindness.
Despite my misgivings about his reasoning I did vote up his post because he took some time to write it and I'm a nice guy.
Thanks again for your support.
Checkout some of my blogs. No circle jerking for me.
right now it's all crypto and art/photography. Which works for me as an artist :)
Yes but that's what a circle jerk is, you make some art, they like your post, they make some art, you like their post, it's a circle jerk!!!
I'm glad to see some like minds here. I'm sorry this place has become so mundane and uninteresting and I appreciate you've upvoted me because it means you want it to change.
My post could be construed as a little controversial, that's the whole point.
If we didn't want controversy we can see Cat Memes and Recipe ideas on Tumblr or Facebook.
true, but for some reason I found this to be pretty entertaining. This is about as close to reddit as I have seen anything else get to be honest.
Yes I agree with you really. As I've said, my words were designed to be controversial and I have to agree that as I write this.
Steemit is absolutely the best shit available and at least I see this place has a chance to move in the direction I'd like. Every other platform is disintegrating into far smellier shit than I've accused Steemit of being .