@quillfire

@nickyhavey makes some apposite points, and points I made to you when we had an offline chat about this a few weeks ago. Reading the comments is as enlightening as your post, Quillington.

I have, other than commenting on Quill's and @blockurator's posts really stayed out of the politics of Steemit. While I see the sense in working the system, working the system is joining the people who's ethics one finds questionable. As Judge Hilary Squires said, in what was effectively Zuma's first corruption trial (https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/zuma-the-sca-and-the-generally-corrupt-relationshi) for every corruptor, there must be a corruptee. Succumbing the lure of bidbots is giving up. Or is it making use of the tools available to you - if you can afford them? Either way, it makes for a system of privilege and patronage. No different.

Me, I've been an ostrich. I've stuck my head in the sand, ignoring it all.

I do like Nicky's separation of Steem from Steemit; similarly, the point about what rocks a coder's socks doesn't jive for the creatives on the platform. The point, too, about the interface being so clunky is a case in point: it's played into the hands of the creators of the DApps to provide avenues for those who like the notion of being able to share content and engage with likeminded individuals, seemlessly, to make money. To hell with the content-generators that use their platforms and make them money. They see it as a return on their investment - their just desserts - measurable in monetary terms. The content-generators get what? A platform? Pffft!

However, they are making their money on the back of the creatives on the platform.

Chicken and egg?

Symbiosis?

There is also, as Quill points out, the genetic code which brings me to Nicky's point about loyalty. The loyalty here, as many of us have said, over and over and over, is to people and not to the platform and the dysfunctional community it's created. I concede, too, that we are also precious about our content, but that's never lost - if you make sure not to lose it.

Within the Steemit ecosystem are sub-systems that work and it's those communities that function on the platform, but live on Discord, and from there on/in other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and Instagram.

I agree that a mass exodus would be a great way of sending a shockwave through the Steemit powers that be, but to succeed in such a short time, and for the new adopters to not just perceive but experience the benefits would take, I submit, a well organised campaign that would need to be sustained for a period to generate enough momentum.

Interesting times. I shall watch with interest.

Quill, I am sure, will keep us posted.

Fiona