RE: DTube Talks | My Personal Message To DTube And Heimindanger | New DTube Curation Update
Thank you for this great reply. I really appreciate that! And it makes me regret my intial rant as I could have worded myself with less emotion. Sorry for getting personal.
You are absolutely right with the effort you have to put in and the excuses you can make in order to not do that. I am in a fortunate position with my SP but I also know that I have worked very hard for it before. Ever since I was attacked here I kind of lost my mojo. That has heavily impacted my Steemit activity and video production - and income. I am in excuses-mode.
You on the other hand, are in power-mode. That is cool for you and great for the platform. But I have been there as you know and it can make you blind or like in my own case even ignorant of the fact how much of the Steem reward pool a power user like yourself is already receiving. For example this week you have an expected payout of 0.0567% of the reward pool according to Steem Supply. That is fantastic and a great achievement. You have earned it as well!
However, that also means that you are currently receiving over a 2000th share of the entire author pool which is shared among 60k - 70k active users. So when you receive less upvotes or smaller upvotes for your work then you would still be one of the top Steemians to receive a large chunk of the reward pool. Right now you riding the wave of being a favorite of the DTube team. That is a massively centralized decision (with the new rules slightly less) which effects all other DTube content creators as well as the entire Steem ecosystem since all platforms share the same reward pool.
My conclusion is that this new system is a first step into a more decentralized and fairer upvote system than it was before - although it is still miles away from that. The massive delegated Steem Power that DTube controls will hopefully spread out wider now which will effect probably all top earners on DTube. But the cool thing is that you can still work in power mode but spread out to DLive for example or find other ways to make more Steem. You can even earn more than now with the same effort but more wider approach among different platforms.