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Believe me, I know I've never gotten much engagement at all, I'm not offended in the least. It's more that I'm interested having watched your account from the sidelines for a long time without ever getting involved. I guess it's just cool to see another OG Steemian still active since I haven't seen a lot of the old names pop up in a long time.

Edit: Also, I only called it a shitpost because you tagged it as such.

I think many have given up due to the lack of any significant development to Steemit and the ability to just sell votes.... Unfortunate, but that's just how it is.

Yeah, I have the feeling the proliferation of bots and vote selling put a big damper on interest. I really haven't been engaging the platform simply because I hate the way Steemit.com works, but dlive and steempeak are making me more interested again. But whatever, you don't need my life story. Have fun.

Use https://steempeak.com/ - much better experience.

Yep, I made the switch this past week. If this had been the experience from day one I think the landscape would be a lot different.

Signed up to Steampeak; looks good so far! Thank you!

You'll have a better experience with your Bic lighter too if you remove the child safety. ;-)

The huge benefit to Bernies 'shitposts' is he gives a lot of really nice upvotes to a lot of people who might not ordinarily get anything! It's harmless and it encourages people to be here, and gives them a little hope I guess.
Bernie's a saint ?!!!
(it also generates income for Bernie's anti-abuse bot army)

Don't get me wrong, I've always really appreciated the way Bernie has done things on the platform, sentiment is just difficult to express well on the internet.