RE: AskSteemit #3: How did you stumble upon Steemit and what was your initial thought?
My girlfriends brother had mentioned finding this site which he thought could revolutionize social media as we know it, as it turned out he was talking about Steemit of course. I at the time knew of cryptocurreny but wasn't involved in it at all, and I was just using Reddit for almost all of my social media stuff. He suggested I make an account and maybe start making posts about my hobbies since I could make some money for them, as I was making pretty decent content over on Reddit which had hit the front page of the site a couple of times.
I was super confused my first month or so on how everything works here, and he only answered a few of my questions before I just decided I needed to figure out everything else on my own. Eventually I did, so I just kept trying to make some good quality content while commenting around hoping to make some friends on here, which eventually I did :P
I honestly can't recall my initial thoughts on the website, but I remember feeling very intrigued by the whole concept of the site and was imagining in my head just how far this site could go given time and plenty of good growth. I was definitely impressed after my first day of browsing, and after that I just couldn't stop getting on here, haha.
Yes! This a million times over. I also used to spend a ton of time on reddit after I fell out of love with facebook.
We make posts and get paid nothing from reddit!!! That is the part I really hated. I was a Youtuber and my content got decent money for what I used to do in the gaming world, posting on reddit you could get hundreds of upvotes which = hundreds of views for reddit ads and nothing for me. You know its funny, reddit would be a better place probably if people could earn something. If reddit had more of a style like steemit(anti-censorship and running on a similar blockchain maybe), then reddit would really explode. They aren't innovating on reddit or other places though and they are going to get left in the dust.
I think they've lost the will to do anything creative with Reddit, due to the massive growth of users they've had in the past 5 or 6 years. Reddit is nothing like it used to be 8 or 9 years ago when I joined up. It's become heavily over saturated on pretty much all of the main subreddits at this point.
Something else which really kills good content on that site is the fact that it's so easy to manipulate votes. You don't even have to use paid services to do it, you could just have a group of people all upvote the same post in the first few minutes, or even just do it yourself by changing your IP address and making new accounts. I've seen so much garbage and corporate shill stuff get to the front pages it's ridiculous.
And, the way that some of the subs censor or ban people is outright ridiculous. I know Acid has mentioned bad experience with the mods of bitcoin, IIRC. And, I myself had had some issues with bigger subs banning me because I shared an opinion that was not liked. It's really frustrating, and it's one reason why I only go on reddit maybe once a week anymore, and that's only to check movie news and my own subreddits.