@mindhawk i feel you and instead of getting better this is getting worse by the day. I had a lenghty discussion with a friend who borrowed money to buy sbd so he can pay for bot to ensure his posts even gets traction and alas, bots are even reaping folks off like jerrybanfield and upmevote etc and when you complain they tell you its bid based and one big guy came and bought up the whole power. i think if steemit dosnt correct this issues in next hardfork many will leave in droves and the whales will have themselves only to swallow. lets keep in touch tough. nice comment
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I noticed a lot more articles and comments showing displeasure at the direction of the platform and the negative incentives that have been created.
I also seem to hear more about people leaving
If a critical point is reached, there will only be whales and bots circle jerking each other for money.
The red light is flashing
And worryingly @ned is busy watching a great idea going down the drains because of fear of hurting the big whales. A loose loose option. ...
Even when i come here and make a lengthy on topic comment, I get a single upvote even though 8 people responded, like what is that? I don't understand, I worry that these are not real accounts.
I have heard rumor and seen some evidence that twitter and reddit are fully in control of the Hillary democrats/fbi and that they rework everything behind the scenes so that if you arren't on their agenda, no one ever sees your things in their feed.
I am beginning to believe this is the case with steemit as well. It is centralized and closed source, steemit inc could flag certain individuals as either suppressive or expressing unwanted information, and then with a single flip from 0 to 1, no one sees your post in their feed at all, except cops.
I am having a difficult time perceiving anything else, like all the censorship at reddit r/conspiracy, 600k accounts subscribe but no post except from a certain angle ever get 3k upvotes even, which means that people are writing really popular things but the site doesn't reflect it, which is a really irritating form of gaslighting.
'why aren't you are a more famous writer? no one ever reads your stuff' but really millions of people could have loaded your article and all the benefits are kept by the corp, the fbi uses it to track and profile you, and you end up thinking you are actually bad at what you do.
I see no reason to think steemit is or could be different, it seems the forces at work here are into censorship but pretending that there is none. I hate these people.