Its also not like any other god damn website on the internet anyway, this is supposed to be based on the blockchain, not the google mail system
it is supposed to but it is not. in fact I would say steemit has nothing to do with the blockchain technology! I know it is a weird thing to say but here is the reason:
when you sign up, do you create a key pair and register yourself on the distributed ledger called STEEM blockchain? NO.
what you do is you sign up in the centralized database of the website called steemit.com and it is like any other website
when you make a post is your post stored in a decentralized way or on a blockchain? NO.
instead your post is stored in a centralized database like any other website such as reddit for example on a server somewhere.
the only part where the "blockchain" comes in is when payment is involved, which to be honest I find reddit's tipbot a lot better
feel free to correct the two main points above, I am not a user of this platform I have only checked it out.