Steemit is a revolutionary concept but it is dead in the water. This is my last post.
First things first, I want to congratulate Dan and Ned for putting together an unbelievable platform. I have listened to your interviews about Steemit and kept shaking my head in approval throughout the interview. You can read why I am big believer of it here.
About two months ago I became disenfranchised with Steemit. Not because of what the Steemit platform is, but the direction the community was going. I would see shit posts that would earn two or three thousand dollars. It would be some random photo of the beach and without hesitation a whale would up vote it. I wonder who's post that could be? Here was my attempt at a rebuttal at the time without actually calling out the whales.
It doesn't take long for people to notice what is really going on behind the scenes. It is either whales creating fake accounts and upvoting themselves, or, some people end up on a whale's automatic bot- upvote list. One of those people happens to be conspiracy theorist @dollarvigilante.
I'm sure a lot of the ancaps here are happy they got a big fish on board with Jeff Berwick, but in all reality you got the Alex Jones of ancaps. Steemit won't be going to the moon anytime soon when your biggest celebrity doesn't believe in the moon landings.
Steemit is too anarchist. The majority of people who would use a platform like this are not anarchists or even libertarians. When they get on the front page and see five 9/11 conspiracy theories they just keep moving. If you want to gain massive user adoption you are going to have to get past this. You don't need to believe in the Shemitah to know this won't happen anytime soon.
I gave up on Steemit when I realized I was only trying to impress the whales. It is like we are just a bunch of jesters trying to impress the king. If you get on his bad side you are done. You can go ahead and dump $20k into Steem Power but you are still aren't shit and your voting power is still irrelevant. At this point I knew the best thing for Steemit was if the whales would just disappear.
Now I know why Satoshi Nakamoto just got up and left Bitcoin all together.