upvote some random fuckers when they can organically vote on content with an equal weight as other users on the websites they already use. Their voices already matter more on the content-consumption sites that they already use

I don't think this piece is complete crap as it addresses a basic problem of the platform where money means power. No matter what we say, its money that matters here more than anything else. It's really a trickle-down capitalist economy. It's not that minnows don't have a chance, they do but someone with big money can just print money here no matter their content quality. And from the perspective of having your voice matter, 100s of minnow votes can be nullified by one big vote, isn't it ironic when we talk about spreading democracy to the oligarchies and autocracies of the world?

Fascinating points overall, thanks for sharing or else I would have missed this.