Just writing this letter out as a burned out steemian. teemit is great, it's wonderful, it's definitely better than facebook when it comes to making money out of it (if you aren't selling anything). But reality bites. Minnows have almost no proper support. Either you buy your way to become a dolphin or a whale (if you filthy rich).
Steemit is fun, when I started I envisioned teaching 200 people here in Davao on how to steemit. But that passion is fading away. The first initial invites don't even post as much. No one is getting it and honestly i'm frustrated. I was also "teamed" up with steemph who follow up on me on discord and while I appreciate the attention, it feels like I'm some kind of VA. Like I didn't come here to get a job and have a boss. I wanna write about anything I want, when I want and how frequently I want. It's my F****** account!
As I m writing this I understand that all of this is pure frustration. I've honestly been more active in other platforms like bitconnect and other sites I make some extra money in. Steemit has been fun, don't really know if it will still be. I know that you don't come in here to make money. Focus on content and the "money will eventually come in". Honestly not so sure about that.
I see so many posts that were we written and you see 800+ upvotes, the post only earned $20 cause yeah everyone didn't vote with full power. It's their freedom honestly, but when you look at how they voted in steemd.com you can see that they all voted at the exact same time. These are bots. Not real people. Don't get me wrong if I got $20 or 800 upvotes i'd be grateful...to bots??? bulls***
The only real people who are any decent money here in steemit are the likes who invested in steem power. I know some people will be like, why don't you do the same? I've given it thought, but the amount of steem power you would have to buy to get your upvotes to be worth $1 is almost 2 bitcoin. In the Philippines that's half a million pesos already. SO yeah...again it nobody's fault but I hate it.
I make around $20 on a good day with bitconnect comapred to steemit. I make around $20 a day with fiffo. I make $10 a day with alifelong. I wonder how much this post will make?
I recently did an experiment. I have a focus group who automatically upvote me because of steemvoter. I get an average of 20-30 upvote per post and earn an average of $0.10 to 0.15, given that no dolphin or what upvotes. Given those numbers I microblogged in steemit by the form of photo blogs. I did the posts every hour and at the end of the day I would post 5 posts. The posts were 50/50, at the end of the day I would get around less than 0.20 in SBD and Steem power.
It was a fun experiment. What happened was I got followed up by people from Steemph for shitty posts. I said I was experimenting and basically got a sort of warning that if that's how you're gonna post, then you aint welcome here. Again...experiment...I never signed to have someone dictate to me on what I can and can't do in steemit. The last thing I did wrong in steemit was post an affiliate link, never did it again.
I am not giving up on steemit. It' actually a great place to produce content. I just don't want to be limited by the rules of other steemians. Peace