Despite my initial enthusiasm on this platform, I am a bit disappointed now.
1) Is the platform full of fakes and/or bots?
Yes. My first posts got some upvotes and upcomments, latests, which are even better, absolutely nothing than some automated upvote just to try the lottery of "curator reward". Some of them flagged each other too.
2) Who earn from photocontests? Definitely who organize them. Thousands of great pics given for free, that someone select and organize to create pages full of beautiful content, monetized by ads. And it's clear that ads on pages full of great contents are going to pay well.
3) Is the interest of people something "instagram like" where "I follow you to get a refollow and then I leave you" is the main mantra? Yes. Definitely. There is no real interest on content, there is just interest to create a fanbase, to convert into lot of money possibly.
4) Will no one read this post? Probably... there are too many people on this platform, and because of feed filter, most of them are not going to see it.
Conclusion: maybe it was a better platform at the beginning, with less content and less people. The assumption that "payment for good content" is going to be an incentive to create good content is just wrong. 7 billions people generate too much good content, and some are going to be more visible than others, as it happens in other medias or social networks.
PS: Add all the errors on the service and we got the complete picture.
