Hey boys and girls.. and mostly bots, I just joined the platform and I would like to share my experience so far with the rest of the community on what I think of the steemit so far and why I'm a bit frustrated.
I knew about steemit for, idk maybe 1-2 years but never had the interest to take a closer look because I disliked the concept of creating money out of thin air and giving it to "content creators". In my humble opinion it's a concept that's bound to fail from the start because you're forced to put 90% of your resources into banning bots and cleaning spam. That's what I thought at the time and that's what I still think to this day.
So why did I join?
Today I woke up and decided to look for some freelance work that pays crypto and after googling for a couple hours I stumbled upon steemit again so I decided to create an account and take a closer look at the platform.
Tried to sign up and noticed that you have to pay approximately $2. Understandable and in my opinion it's a good thing at the end of the day. It's a step closer towards keeping the bots off.
So I created the account and started surfing the platform. I wanted to understand how the things work, what kind of content gets the most impact, what's trending and so on..
TLDR: I joined because I thought I could make some easy crypto
2 hours later
I had low expectations - I knew there was going to be some spammy content, some bots, some low quality articles, pictures of chicks, cats, flowers and random shit - but I had expected at least 1 out of 50 articles to be half-decent.
Nope.
There's 0 content made by actual people that have something to say.
Maybe there is quality content but it gets buried below all the trash, maybe there's no quality content because there never was, or maybe there was at some point but those people left. I don't know and I'm too lazy to look into it.
So my conclusion is this..
Despite the fact that things are not - in my opinion - that great, I think that if enough people join and create small communities with actual content and if the big boys behind the code put enough effort into making sure the trash stays below and quality content starts rising and is encouraged - I could see a world in which the platform survives the long run.
Personally I will stick around for some more time. I will post daily stuff but I don't expect to make any money off it because I'm positive that almost nobody is going to find nor read my pile of garbage.
So in conclusion, if you're not a bot and if you want to read my next ultra high quality post make sure you follow me. <3 BTW if you've actually read the whole thread please comment below my last tag, as a social experiment :)
See you tomorrow.. or not.
