Do you feel like Steemit is becoming an insiders club?

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To some degree YES! Especially if we focus only on payouts. 

It is no hidden fact that when you are a member of some community here or if you have some orca/whale friends, then even if one post a picture of a "sunflower" with some random stolen quote at the bottom then that person will still get a decent significant payout. (No offence to sunflowers XD) I'm not complaining but that is just the reality of this platform. 

Buttttt I don't really think that is the problem. The problem is that there are only a few people (or accounts) that can give significant upvotes. 

For reference, if an account has a natural Steem Power greater than 500 then that account is already part of the Steem 1 percenter. 99% of accounts on Steem have less than 500SP! And we all know how little a 500SP account's full upvote can give. Around $0.03 which is totally negligible to most people.

Going back to the question, I for one don't really think Steem/Steemit is becoming an insiders club. As a matter of fact I think it is now finally becoming a real social media in which people can just post whatever they want and get paid for doing it. 

I honestly feel that it's now much more better thanks to DApps like DTube, ESteem, etc.. When I first stumbled on this platform it was honestly intimidating to write. People write lengthy articles and are so hell bent on quality which makes me write length articles and strive for quality too. 

From what I can see now, people are more free to post. They can publish whatever they want as long as it is their content. I am even sharing my DOTA2 journey in here to which I think no one really cares about but me lol So if we compare Steem/Steemit to months ago, it finally is becoming like a real social media instead of a blogging platform which I really love

Going back to the question again: It only feels like an insiders club when you focus on payouts. If you take a post payouts out of the equation, you will notice how some people are still reading, upvoting and commenting on your content. It's just like their votes isn't significant enough that we barely notice. :)

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