I distinctly remember when I first found Steemit. I was beyond excited. In the era of agenda driven media and controlled news that has removed any semblance of fee real news and unbiased information, it was refreshing to have a platform that reached to any corner of this planet and real life people shared experiences, opinions and their talents.
The platform now exists in the shadowy corners of the internet, slowly moving into oblivion. A great idea managed extremely poorly in the name of dectralization and freedom. It is then to be said that the management knew how to spell these words but never truly understood the meaning of these words.
There was freedom to fund bots, freedom to invest as a whale and loot other members and freedom to trample on others if you had enough resources. The whole system lends itself to manipulation by those with criminal intent, at least in the moral sense.
Great pieces of science, literature and arts were published on the platform. Yet some pea brained chart analyst publishes 2 charts and writes incomprehensible 4 lines and gets paid hundreds. Some girl can publish some travel photos and a meaningless travel blog and be paid thousands when comparable and even better blogs go unnoticed. Biased support of certain blogs crippled the platform. This was not freedom. This was freedom crushed.
The platform failed to recognize what gets people interested in and interactive with a web based platform. It could not come up with an adequate app for mobile devices. This removed it from hordes of humanity that primarily use mobile devices. From login to posting, nothing is simple. There was no content categorization, no ads, no recommended feeds... just nothing at all. The platform is unable to integrate blog and video into one.
Then there is blocktrades. I can certainly buy Bitcoin for American cash. Why can’t I buy steem for cash on blocktrade? What a horrendous situation.
The platform is unfriendly to the consumer. It has allowed criminality to prosper. It is missing everything that a user friendly mobile platform has to offer. It is sad to see a good idea do so poorly.
