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Followed just to not miss that post of yours. Always love to see some data.

Thanks for the follow, hoping not to disappoint you in future 😅 Followed you back.

Don't worry. I'm sure you won't! Just keep doing you :)

  • Most of the newbies may have joined the network looking to make a few quick bucks but left disillusioned when their posts were not getting them enough SBDs or are barely being noticed(this post may meet the same fate 😊).
  • The steemit hierarchy looks like an oligarchy which is bound to fail as the majority of voting power lies in the hands of less than 2% of the whole populace.

We are getting new apps and platforms that use underlying Steem technology which could help fix the first issue. Also communities are coming soon.

But the second issue is something that... is a big issue. I hope the situation gets better in year or two, if not there might be something wrong in the system itself.

Communities will help in increasing the engagement levels. Regarding the second issue - most of the whales/orcas were early adopters/steemit devs/witnesses who get rewards for their mining. So this hierarchy might not go away soon.

Here's a glimpse of the author rewards distribution just prior to HF19:

authorrewardchart.png

I am not a data scientist, and this chart was posted by @aggroed, who stated it came from @arcange. I have repeatedly requested more current data, in order to better ascertain the impact of HF19, to no avail.

I suspect the situation hasn't improved.

Yes, I think so. HF19 states that rewards are proportional to the stake, the distribution of stake is skewed in the first place!