Thank you @gikitiki! Only six days behind me, awesome!
I had built a pretty good audience for my writing on Facebook from 2010-2015 but then they started limiting post outreach so something like 2% of my audience were seeing my posts. I started spending more time in a Facebook group that author James Altucher created because his writing was motivational and he'd share great marketing tips for authors. One of the other members of that Facebook group, @stellabelle, started posting about Steemit and that prompted me to give it a try. I created my account in early June but, for some reason, couldn't register. I came SO close to blowing it off and forgetting about it but I decided one Saturday morning to email Steemit's customer support and try to get some help. They unlocked my account and here we are three years later. It scares me sometimes to think of how different things would be if I wouldn't have reached out to customer support.
Wow, you were very early in the crypto-space! I hadn't even heard of Bitcoin until I joined Steemit. I got a crash course in blockchain after that just from having to trade Steem for Bitcoin.
If I recall, the first post I read when I found steemit was one from @stellabelle. She was one heck of an ambassador for the platform.
The other posts that I really enjoyed in the beginning were the Adventures of BigFoot and Rock by @papa-pepper
She was one of the first Steemit OG's and dominated "trending" for a long time. I'll always be thankful to her for introducing me to the platform.
Somehow I missed Papa Pepper for my first few months. I think I discovered him around the time of the first SteemFest.
So many of the good original writers are gone now. Us first wavers are a rare breed around here now.