RE: How Steemit and DTube fund independent media
With an average of 2 cents per vote for lucky planktons, less for average planktons
Real independent media, real as in not having whale pimps to slave for, planktons.
Steemit still fails in several ways for most steemians (Will this ever change? I hope so, yet I remain sceptic)
Steemit somewhat works for some of the steeminans. Who are willing to jump trough weird hoop rules that don't really make sense, but manage to make a cashflow based not on actual votes of the average viewer, but based on whale power.
Steemit works for elite steemians, who don't have the slightest ethical values and act on pure greed.
Now i'm sure there are grey areas where a few clever monkees manage to swim in shark infested seas without getting slaughtered. And really manage to be succesful. Yet those i can count on one hand, and still i don't know if they are whaling in secret, sailing under another flag.
Keep in mind my view is somewhat limited to the small group i hang out with. I may be very wrong, but from what i hear in my group this is the image that emerges to me. A few exceptions. But by just using the platform in a human manner, without jumping trough weird bureaucratic hoops, steemit is not in any way a reliable source of income. Don't even think of getting the flu, or break a finger.
I hope this reply holds more value then my $0.004 vote.
Votes on content that is 7 days old or older, perhaps even 6 days 18 hours or older only cause damage by adding data to the blockchain while not adding a single rshare to the recipient of the vote.
To me it is annoying.
This is why I wrote about the 1 week in my comment to which you replied.
Steemit is garbage since I joined it, but is still my biggest time expenditure, or waste, along Youtube.
Youtube is like TV, but much better, due to much bigger diversity and much more content.
In STEEM you have to reward yourself by using bidbots.
It is risky, and I got downvoted at least 3 times by 3 different people for doing so, but the reward still exceeds the cost by far, and the downvoters did pay with VP, which almost everyone here tries to spare, because it is money and power, especially if you know how to leverage it.
Steemit is a better choice than facebook and Twitter for sure.
You got a 29.13% upvote from @sleeplesswhale courtesy of @stimialiti!
hehe.
If thats the case then something is definitely wrong. This way you can make money on whatever crap you post. So if honest people don't use bitsbots then shitposters just destroy the entire platform.
So that may explain the downvores, yet downvotes then work like censorship, and that would be just as bad as the thing they are trying to fight with downvotes.
And if you then still manage to win then it is just a joke.
How can steemit be 'better' then the other options if people need to reward themselves?
What am i missing here?
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