Hola Steemy peeps!
It's not every day you pass the 5000 follower mark on Steemit, so I thought I would mark the occasion with a self congratulatory post. Like, WTF not? Get ready for some super feel-good positivity.
Words:condra. Irrelevant Images:Pixabay
I'm one of those lucky enough to have discovered Steemit fairly early on, in July 2016. People talk about how much it's changed since then, but it really hasn't. Back in July 2016, there was a lot of spam, plagiarism, corruption and drama. Fast forward almost 2 years and it's just the same, only on a bigger scale.
You've been quiet recently.
Yeahp. I've rinsed my photography portfolio. More than once. I'm not putting yall through that again. I'll be moving on to other creative projects this year, but at the moment, I'm concentrating on other things in my life, as well as helping 
Whoa dude, that's cynical.
It's true though. Steemit has become completely overrun with spam, bots, scammers, plagiarists, and worse. Fake charity, phishing scams, witnesses from Hell, whales from Hell. There is very little sense of community, and refinements are few and far between. You can tell me, "it's still beta" all you like. I've been looking at that fucking "beta" slapped on the logo for two years, while Steemit has become this, rotting, thing.
So, you've given up hope?
Nah bro. Steemit can work, but we need to be able to build niche communities. Niche communities that are naturally spam resistant. We need incentive to have meaningful interactions. We need reasons to be here apart from monetary reward, and right now, I can think of very few. Steemit is broken, but not beyond repair. Whatever happens, I'll probably be here, sitting at my computer with a cold cup of tea. If nothing else, it's interesting.
