Steemit biggest asset has always been the absense of ads. That era is now over. This means that in this attention economy, the platform treats our eyeballs in a way that is no different than any other centralized corporation. Honestly I knew this was coming but I had a glimmer of hope that there was a chance it would not happen. Obviously crypto has the potential to be a store of value and nothing else. Not one extra bit of anything else. There was a window for Steemit to become a parallel economy, for people to turn Steem into a currency all on it’s own but then again, I’m probably just fooling myself. It must have been fated that Steemit INC would enslave countless hours of dev volunteer work and donated server space in order to sync the capitalist dystopia that has generated countless reality shows that we are supposed to want to keep up with. I am devastated and feel like a fool to have made my home here, a place that is now no better than FB or Instagram. I think that if it was between this and shutting the whole thing down than they should have shut it down, I am sick of being advertised to, if businesses want to pay us to promote them on our blogs fine but the systematic intrusion of adds and at a rate of 1 for 10 posts at that is outrageous and is exactly why the crypto market is doing so poorly. Honestly I am so angry, I am besides myself.
