Posting on this website is like zip-lining through a forest.

See the trees?

You can't tell who they are.

But they can see that you.

Only for a brief moment, though.

Now, whoosh! You're gone.

Flying through the trees.

You can see so many.

You want to reach out and talk to them.

But you can't.

You're going too fast.

You see them whizzing by.

The wind picks you up

and the forest seems to flow beneath you.

You can only see the vastness of what you are missing.

Steemit is like a giant city with one tiny well.

It's just getting too big for the current news feed layout to handle the influx of posts.

Only a few people can get what they really need.

You get a passing glimpse of everyone,

but no one can really see you.

No one gets any attention except the whales who already got an audience back when Steemit was smaller.

This isn't a new issue.

Some even say that this problem has been solved.

But has it?

What kind of forces are really tackling this problem? Charity?

Initiatives like "minnow support" just demonstrate that there is a problem.

But the problem will never be fixed unless something institutional is actually done about it.

Something structural.

Real, Responsive Change.

Real, responsive change is when the trending page is reprogrammed to stop featuring the same 5 whales every time.

Real, responsive change is when curation rewards are greater for finding underground content so that whale posts don't get 100 upvotes within minutes with far fewer actual views.

People don't even read articles anymore. There are a ton of Steemians sitting on the main page spam-voting anything with a reputation over 60.

Take this example:

We need people to look at content again, not reputation scores!

And this kind of change doesn't come from minnow support.

Consider how well charity's helps people in impoverished communities.

Sure, it gives them money in the short term.

But look at this guy.

Under the current dictatorship, he just takes all the money.

So you give out some free money to the poor people, they get to rich for a while, and then he steals it again.

Do you really think minnow support is helping minnows that much?

After all, the current structure allows the whales to steal all the attention and $$$$$.

Sure, we don't want communism, but Steemit is reaching a size where some state-sponsored social programs might be in order.