I stumbled upon steemit when I was browsing through bitcointalk forums. I have been on those forums off and on for years.
I sometimes participate in ad signature campaigns there and I am part of a small minority of people who actually don't spam those forums haha. A lot of the stuff over there is spam and you can't really talk with many people back and forth and have any meaningful conversation.
I like steemit because here you can have a more meaningful conversation while at the same time earn a little crypto if people find what you said helpful(a great example of voluntarism I think is the word). It helps build the community making posts and its generally nicer here than anywhere I have ever been.
I see also that you were in /r/bitcoin for awhile and yes they did start censoring a lot. I sometimes participate over on /r/btc and I see they have their moderation logs set to open and you can see why someones stuff was removed and why and all that. I like /r/btc better in my opinion, even if it has less people and all that(and they can be a bit mean too haha).
Steemit is my main place to hang out and read stuff now. Almost anywhere else is a drag. Twitter is bots and people shouting eachother down, facebook is whiny people and uploading food pictures or just other vapid things that don't help the world progress. + all the censorship on reddit in general and elsewhere is concerning me, that is why I am trying to get more people to steemit and to Minds.com and dtube and lbry.io.
Governments and corporations have a duty to censor views that are harmful to them from all that I see, the only way to have a more free society is places like steemit and other decentralized things. I am a person with a background in social media/computer science/information systems, I can see where this is all going. Steemit and other things similar are the new facebook or the new twitter, it is up to us to help get it going and make it better :)
Indeed unlike othe social media Steemit is truly for the people. I like to call it the wiki leaks of social media :)
Now I am using Steemit, it feels such a waste to dedicate my time on Facebook. I used to like pages and comment a lot, but the engagement here is on a different level.
I really hope Steemit is going to be popular :)
That is a good thing to call it!
I can't use facebook like I used to because it is just to annoying. I used to upload what I was doing, where I went, picture of this and that and blah blah. After a few years of that it got kind of tiresome to feel like I needed to update hundreds of people about my life. Then I see how they are basically just using me as the product too, all these ads and auto-playing videos... ugh, for the love of god, no auto-playing videos on web pages!!! That drives me nuts.
I only use facebook for messages now and also to post to my facebook group using hashtags to direct people here and a few other places.
Yeah I didn't want to mention it. But after I learned how much Facebook is making by using our personal information, I kinda hated it more!!
Haha why not direct them all to Steemit ;)
Yes! Use their platforms to sign up your friends and others hehe. Twitter works pretty well for that too because of the hashtags are used more than on facebook. I get a few people every other day who click on the links I post on twitter about steemit so I hope they sign up!
:)