Well if they could get a functional trending page and actual free market with no big bidbots business on steemit it would help. People come here, the first place they see is the trending page, would you stay? 😂 Don't get me wrong some promotion is fine, it's just business but there should be a cap per post/day.

It's a different landscape without them, that's what I like about weku and they are committed to keeping that off the platform. I came here before the promo-bots and the trending page was more organic, there was still some circlejerking but it was still a content free market. It was much better, then everyone started advertising it as the "get rich doing nothing" thing and that's where it all degenerated from there.

I get their point on cross posting but they also have to understand a blogger isn't going to drop thousands of followers to go there. They have to be realistic too. Cross posting = Blockchain blogging experience and a following to slowly bring over. Build it and they will come, but not tomorrow....lol. It takes time. Some put a lot of work in our posts and yeah, we want to advertise our work a little to different social media...Isn't that kinda the point? Emphasis on "social". lol I'm always that ass-hole that says out loud what everyone thinks on the inside. haha. It's ok for them to have certain expectations, but compromise is required.

I think the steemit concept could do really well as an entertainment free market because of all the apps but it has a long ways to go yet! The platform will get it's ups and downs probably for years to come. I think if you just slowly stick around and chip away at it one post a time and hold, with the free market of steem, we can still find ourselves sitting pretty at one point if this place gets popular...early bird gets the worm.