Steemit is getting close to being a surveillance and propaganda platform just like every other 'community' on the internet.
Someone like v4vapid buys 100k steem at .01 each two years ago, and he can bring in 20+ other accounts of disinformation agents and their shite websites to give them the appearance of earnings and legitimatcy. It's like shareblue slide posts on /pol start showing $200 earnings. And anyone who asks questions gets totally excluded from the community.
I just wrote a very lengthy post that took a ton of research and the beste I can tell is that only bots are even visiting my page, .06 upvotes in the first hour.
It's gone the same way for weeks after I took sides against all the disinfo agents, undercovers and haejin too, and this site to me is a ghost town of 15SP accounts popping in to say 'gosh i didn't read this, the title was interesting'
Ghost town. Every one of my posts invites discussion, but in the entire time I've been here I've had like 5. The IQ level of this place is very low and there are a ton of people here with ulterior motives just gaming the platform.
This is an unmoderated plutarchy, so it's crass and it's just a giant hose of lies, like haejin's TA or kim dotcom's obsession with who hacked the dnc and how, without any attention paid to what was really leaked. (kim dotcom is an obvious propaganda operator btw)
The only way I've gotten through this far is by muting so much disinformation, the number of legit accounts who even read the topics I write about is about 0.
I am seriously considering a full powerdown.
@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
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.
Not even 15 SP accounts, they're .5 or soon to be .1 SP accounts with a temporary delegation, so when the delegation is retracted they won't even be able to use the site, lol.
No one reads anyone's posts. Period. Everyone is focused on writing their own crap. The only reason people read others' posts is either for networking (if they post) or for upvotes (if they only comment).
The IQ level on the platform is kind of split, I'd say. But that is just society for you. Most people on steemit could also be found at your local pyramid/MLM scheme meetings. Even being lucky and getting in early was no guarantee of intelligence, just timing and luck.
You might as well power down before any large exchanges go down in flames, once one becomes insolvent nearly all of them do. Or if not insolvent, then under the legal hammer at the very least. I'm only here for the lulz.
Lol, dont be pessimistic...steemit will recover from this mess and you and I will look back at this period and laugh...we jjst have to keep our fingers crossed fro a solution to this issues.
Do you mean by loosing followers?
no, they act like a cartel. similar to the haejin situation, he has people on his side too who will refuse to engage your content.
There are networks and they act like scientologists, they declare people "suppressive persons" to their content, scam and disinformation. I can't quite tell if it's russians or the fbi, but I have seen evidence for both. Just look into what v4vapid upvotes and resteems, ie disobedient media he hyped like they were jesus, while my basic investigation uncovered they are obvious disinformation.
I have been gaining followers, but i see no reason to think they actually see my content ever or if they are bots/shills. I have 230 followers now, my posts get 20 views and 0 comments that could not be made by monkeys.
They warn you off from pointing out what they are doing in comments with heavy flag downvotes, even if you didn't do anything flagworthy and there always seems to be another dozen or so 15SP accounts come out of the woodwork to personally attack you and do the dirty work.
This results in the topics of conspiracy, pizzagate and 9/11 truth being effectively censored and/or flooded with crap. It happens to every new event, they just flood the topic with crap, upvote themselves and anyone else who doesn't have a big wallet is marginalized no matter the quality of their content.
I challenge anyone to read my recent pizzagate article, it is the most authoritative post on the entire internet on the topic and I can't get a single real person to comment or to upvote more than .06.
You tell me what's going on. I worked for weeks on my pizzagate article, it is the result now of years of research and study. Worth less than a dollar on steemit.
Reading through your post now. It is such a long read thought it best to comment first...
Sorry to hear of the reaction you have received on your content. My feeling is that getting one's following together is critical. Then we can grow together turning those penny paycheques into something more stubstantual. With that in mind, consider yourself followed. 😉
Thanks, that is one encouraging element, I have gone from 150 to 250 followers in the last month. But with no upvotes or actual reads I wonder what that even means.
People want quality, that means actual content. Despite engaging with about 20 people over the last day on this and other threads, not a single new upvote on my blog and most people didn't upvote my comments either. I don't get it.
There is very little organic, real engagement on the platform inside of posts themselves even on popular authors' posts, so don't be too surprised. And yes, most followers are going to be bots or some other non-person entity, and even if they are real people, 90% of them won't be active in a year, if past trends hold true.
I understand you a lot however do not pack and run and leave this platform for the bad guys alone..patience is the key. I am sure that when a big competitor comes, steemit inc will correct all these limitations