Why It Is Good To Steem

in #steem7 years ago (edited)

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There are so many reasons to Steem and also so many good things about it. I went through the ups and downs in the beginning when I started but when you get the big picture, it can open your mind to a new way of doing social media.

Steemit Is Still In Beta


Steemit just passed it's first year and it hasn't reached mass adoption yet. It's still early for new users to get in and try out the platform, and at the same time work on building it to make it better and ready for the masses.

Rewards


It pays to blog! Since Steem is blockchain based blogging platform, you can earn rewards for the content you create. It's part of the crypto-currency market and you are rewarded with STEEM and SBD tokens that can be traded on exchanges such as Bittrex and Poloniex.

The more you power up your STEEM to STEEM POWER, you have more influence on the platform and are able to reward other's for the content they created. When you curate and vote on content, guess what? You earn curation rewards for that too!

Content


Compared to other social media platforms, Steemit has a variety of content that's growing. There are actual bloggers that create full original content rather than just a photo or a sentence that's copied, although we have that here too. It really changes the way content creators share their content and encourages to create better content for higher rewards.

Community


Steem has a unique community and it has grown quickly. Steem has help connect people in a way like never before. We use other platform to share and stay connected but with the Steem platform, you can do all of that and actually help change people's lives. Steem has had crowdfunds, projects, @steemfest, and meetups that have fellow steemians gather in their local area like the one @richardcrill is hosting. https://steemit.com/steemit/@richardcrill/steemit-meetup-in-austin-tx

People are building real relationships on the Steem platform and helping each other in so many ways. Sharing ideas and thoughts that can affect others in their daily lives. Steem has made a huge impact on my life and I'm sure a lot of others on here would say the same.

Information


Steem has change the way to get information. It is helps combat misinformation on social media such as fake news and has become one of my main go to sources for news.

It has become a great place and tool to get information on the latest, especially in the crypto world. We're getting first ICO's announcements such as @eosis(EOS) on Steem and others as well.

Censorship Resistance


The issue that a lot of users have on other platforms like Reddit or Facebook is that those platforms are censoring content. It can be frustrating and users are tired of it.

Steem on the other hand is censorship resistant and since it's a blockchain, content can't be censored. Steemit can only partially censor content from being clearly visible but you can still see the content or just look on the blockchain. It cannot be edited or deleted on the blockchain even if you make edits or delete your post on Steemit. The original content will still be able to be accessed.

Mulit-Frontend Designs


One of the amazing things of the Steem platform is that it's capable of different frontend User Interfaces(UI). These access the Steem blockchain and present the information from the blockchain on a webpage in different ways.

https://steemit.com is one example.


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There are others like https://busy.org/


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Or one that was developed by @jesta called Chainbb


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There's even @Zappl, a twitter like frontend being developed.


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It's just such a wonderful platform for information and interacting with others in the community. Good fun and can be very rewarding. But first thing is to enjoy and pursue value content composition so the community can benefit.

It sure is. Thanks for the comment :)

A very nice and very clear explanation why people should come join us in this amazing community ! nice work @bitcoinparadise ) upvoted, resteemed and shared to my FB ! Steem On indeed !

Phrased and 'Formatted' beautifully, happy to be a Steempunk with ya'
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First, i thought this is like facebook, just with earning money... realised, that this is beyond better.
If there is something you want to learn about, this is the right place...every time !

So true.

haha great gif.

thank you paradise for this explanation. i really wanted to understand how steem blockchain can be used for other interfaces. cheers!

You're welcome. It is really amazing how huge Steem can become :)

Thank you for mentioning the one I find most important "Censorship Resistance". I am so sick of platforms like Facebook and YouTube and others that enact both hard (blatant) and soft (subtle) censorship on all kinds of information. Screw those guys and FULL STEEM AHEAD!

Yea it's frustrating. Thanks you blockchain technology :P

Great post. For me, the most important aspect of steemit is the censorship resistance aspect; there are so many people out there trying to communicate their message or share their knowledge, and they're being censored because the information they're presenting doesn't agree with you standard of the people who control society. Steemit allow people to present their information without limits and barriers. We will have to embrace this wonderful platform.

Yes. Although Steemit site can still censor it to some extent but it is still able to be viewed on the site or straight from the blockchain.

This is great BP! I'm new and learning this platform as well.

Is it better to blog more or to reply (like I'm doing here) to upgrade faster?

Thanks :D

Yes it's better to blog more and reply to find more success here on Steemit. It takes time and being involved with the community like chatting or joining projects is what will help a lot.

Surely it is the revolutionary platform, steemit. I believe that it will be developed more based on the philosophy of the warm capitalism. Thank you for sharing good post!

Thanks for the comment.

Steemit will prevail as the number one forum website! will be bigger than reddit one day!

To me it already is bigger than reddit :P

its worth more your time than reddit, but when i said bigger i meant like userbase, but anyways this platforms userbase is growing exponentially every day

Yea I got what you meant. I have no doubt the userbase will surpass reddit ;)