I've been on Steemit for about a week. This place a hot mess.

I wanted to sit in my corner, produce fiction and make some nickel and dimes here and there.

But I can't stand the bullshit.

The features are absurd. Tags? That’s it?

No groups? No direct messages? No way to designate rewards beyond votes?

Curators (whales) are supposed to ‘find’ ‘quality’ content. Yeah, sure. Why would they do that when they can upvote themselves? Or their friends?

The site design itself buries content within ten minutes. It's a flood of spam and trash, of blogs full of stock photos and mind-numbing content.

Imagine a collection of the most vapid and banal sentences possible in the English language, set alongside basic-bitch stock photos. That is the flood that is /new/

I’d rather cut my eyes out than sort through it all.

Hell, this will probably get buried before anyone sees it.

The voting pool is dominated by bots and vote-rings, by mafioso scammers and ponzi schemers. There's like, what, twelve people that try to fight that? But they can't because the site design prevents them from actually DOING anything about it. You get flagged, you lose everything, you get the threat message:

Dont Fuck With Me Or Else.

Those are your curators.

The wealth inequality mirrors failed states and the worst that capitalism has to offer.

The mafia’s mediocre content gets paraded as high culture. The bar for quality drops into the sewer.

For capitalist profit, Steemit’s content becomes a coterie of the dull.

"Great Post" "Excellent" "Like Me" "Follow Me" "Wonderful" "So Amazing"

This is the limit to self-expression in the 21st century. A wet sponge offers more to the conversation.

Obsequious masses bend over, servile, hoping that a whale might give them a dollar. They can’t actually DO anything because, again, the site’s own fucking design prevents them.

Walking into Steemit is discovering a dumpster fire.

It's an anarcho-capitalist nightmare. This is what happens when you monetize social media.

Enjoy the pennies or throw money into bots. Build a ponzi-scheme to compete with the ones that dominate /trending/.

Hear that? Sycophants. Don’t worry, they won’t actually read this.

What’s needed is a proper guillotine. What's needed is whale hunting. But don't worry mafias, we can't actually threaten your profits. The site design keeps it that way.