AskSteemit #3: How did you stumble upon Steemit and what was your initial thought?
Hey everyone! Back with another #asksteemit!
I remember the day I stumbled upon Steemit pretty well. I was reading Reddit like I did a lot back then, I was really into reading about cryptocurrency news at the time and frequently browsing the subreddits of them. Before that I was mostly into reading r/bitcoin and r/dogecoin but after the big amount of censorship you noticed on the bitcoin subreddits I started leaning more towards altcoins like Ethereum at the time.
The r/cryptocurreny subreddit also become one of my favorite ones at the time, although low on activty and userbase it was still nice to read daily. There one day I happened upon a comment of a user talking about Steemit (I wish I remembered the users name). I quickly checked it out, created an account which was instant at the time and started doing a few comments and votes. Even wrote my first post asking why Steemit doesn't show ads and reward the revenue to the users:
@pharesim and @pfunk where the first ones to reply to a post of mine, glad to see they are still around on the platform and very important users for it. :)
Anyway, what got me hooked was of course the way it all worked. After reading around more and also checking out the whitepaper I was really impressed by how advanced it already seemed at the beginning phases.
The weird part was that I had created my account at a friends place where we were busy doing some trading for a weekend and I was using her PC, as I got home I totally forgot my password which at the time was not a private key but a password you chose by yourself. I couldn't come up with it to save my own life. Irritated I forgot about Steemit for a couple of weeks until I visited my friend again and tried logging in on her PC which had a different kind of keyboard and BAM, muscle memory came to the rescue.
After that day I have been active ever since pretty much daily. :)
How did you stumble upon Steemit and what were your first thoughts on it?
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!
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I got here due to a "co-worker" of mine. At that point, we both worked as "Community Discussion Managers" (we had no direct title for the things we did, so we came up with Community Discussion Managers ourselves.) on SEOClerks, which is the largest SEO Marketplace.
My friend (or co-worker), made a post about a new, cool social media platform and I have to say, most of the people who responded to that post were naysayers. - I on the other hand, had no interest in cryptocurrencies at the time and even though I had heard about bitcoin, I never ever bothered with some "bogus made-up currency", which I, at the time really believed it was.
I had heard many things about bitcoin but I am "old school", so I liked the thought of having real money, which was the reason I never bothered with it.
Long story short, at the time he introduced this cool place, I had already been sick of facebook for a very, very long time and I thought:
And to tell you the truth. When I first arrived here I saw insane payouts. And I'm not even talking about $200 or $500 posts... I'm talking about $3000 or even $5,000+.
I saw tons of girls posting their introduction posts with a big, fat photo of themselves flashing their "goods", and they got well-rewarded for it. - Sex sells, I know, but seriously.. Why on earth would people give a random girl $2000 for a boring photo they could find for free on google?
It took me a while before I finally realized how these things worked. - You didn't spend your own money like you would buy a service. (Which I'd be doing for several years as a freelancer).
I spent tons of time on Steemit, which I've been doing pretty much since that day, and I published a couple of articles. Some of them made me a dollar and others made me more than $500... - So it was without a question, the best experience I ever had online.
After a couple of weeks, I started to realize that the money actually didn't matter too much. Sure, I was obviously amazed about the money I could earn but I loved the opportunity Steemit gave us all, more than anything. - And that's why I'm still here.
Sometimes struggling and sometimes feeling a bit low and sad... But I figured, that I can't compare my own results with other Steemians. - What I can do, and what I've been doing, is to compare my results from today, with the results I had yesterday. - That's the only thing that have worked out for me.
And by doing that, I compete with myself instead of others. - That's my recipe "Steemit recipe" - And I'm thrilled and still as amazed and thankful for the opportunity I've been given, just like I was when I arrived 16 months ago.
So long story short, I joined for the money but I stayed for the community.
Yeah sadly many believe that to this day.
and yeah, comparing is never good! I remember those several thousand in post rewards posts as well, too bad many of those people didn't stick around. :/
and yeah, I think you had joined around the same time as me, I remember it quite well. :)
I can gladly say that I am not one of those people. I don't consider myself to be some sort of "cryptocurrency-expert" or anything, but even I can see tons of potential with the limited knowledge I have.
Comparing is never good, I definitely agree with you. I actually thought of leaving Steemit at one point, about 15 months ago, because I didn't earn $200+ on every article I published. - Crazy right?
The thing is, that I started to take for granted that my articles would be well-rewarded each and every time, mostly because of Dan, because he was one of the first whales that ever upvoted my content... And he did so multiple times. So instead of having a hard time and have to work to get recognition and rewards, which I was used to prior to Steemit... I arrived at Steemit and got tons of money for basically nothing. - So I'm obviously incredibly thankful for all the rewards I earned, but I am also a bit sad that I got that much rewards right from the start, because that was the main reason for me to start thinking about leaving Steemit in the first place. - Anyhow, I didn't leave and along the way I got more knowledge and found my own way so to speak.
I even consider myself to have become a better person because of Steemit and the Steemians around me. Because I've learned many new things about myself but also about others. - And that's solely because of other Steemians contributions.
So yeah, I'm all for Steemit and I've been an addict ever since I started to get more knowledge.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane btw. :)
I found myself reading multiple articles that I really liked and I didn't even pay attention that it was Steemit, although I noticed some articles had payouts, but I didn't really care, I was just here to read and that's it.
But one day I was doing some google search and yet again I stumbled upon some good articles on Steemit, so I was like: ok, wait a minute, this Steemit thing seems to appear a lot, lemme see what it is.
And I was mindblown from the start. I mean, being able to generate value to someone by doing what I already did with so much pleasure for free - reading, and more - being able to actually make something in the process by curating what I like, not mentioning the writing part...
I was mind blown right away. I started doing crazy research on it, and came to the conclusion that this has the potential to be huge.
Steem Power seem like the most amazing thing I discovered in years. In my mind it's just to right not to start a diet and do everything in possible to hoard as much as I can.
Guys, go for Steem Power, you will regret it one day if you withdraw every buck you make.
Maaan, I'm stupid for realizing this so late...
That's really nice to hear that google SEO is working. :)
I stumbled across it because someone mentioned steemit on a comment in facebook. The way the said it was like everyone should know what it was and I didn't want to ask and look stupid, so I googled it. Then clicked on the site and when I saw I could be reward I was intrigued. I signed up and with in an hour was approved and made my first post. I made two before doing an intro post and that one did really well for me not knowing anyone at all on the platform yet. (though I did discover a few people I follow on other platforms are here, I am a little mad they didn't say something on other platforms about steemit, but I am not gonna call them out, because had they I would have been here a year ago)
I had used Mylot in the day when they rewarded users with the advertising dollars, and it was a lot like steemit in the way users choose which content deserved earnings by voting for content. But it took a lot of posts just to earn $30. For most people it took them 3 months to earn it, but I learned that if you comment more than you post you make more money on that site. And took that here, and that is what helped me rank up so fast, I was at 43 within 24 hours or so.
Though admittedly I have been busy lately and have been slacking on my comments. I am trying to do better about that as you can see.
This is exactly why I tell anyone and go out of the way to at least mention it to friends I don't normally talk to often. Don't want them getting mad at me later once they start using it and can instead be all like "I told you so". :D
Right that is what I am doing too And Thursday is YART that yard sale for Art event I am attending I have my banner made and my t-shirt to promote Steemit while selling my photography art projects
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.
On the 1st April 2017 I was camping with my cousins and friends the next morning I took my bike and was driving home. At a crossroad I turned off to the right at green traffic light, where then a pickup truck who had red traffic light had fully driven into my left side. I was falling over and fainted for two to three minutes when I then came back to me, I stood a little under shock. After everything was arranged with the police, I was taken to the hospital, where I had to stay the next 6 days. I have torn the Achilles tendon on the right leg in the accident and I had strong bruises.
Fortunately, nothing happened to my left leg, as I had pulled it up from Reflex shortly before the accident. I was then operated on the Achilles tendon and I got a plaster. After I was released from the hospital and arrived home, I had a lot of time since I could not walk.
I had nothing to do because I had to lie all day on the sofa, the only thing I could do was to surf the internet with my laptop.
I am very interested in Cryptos and one morning in the end of May I thought to look if there is a token that is connected with a social media platform. At the beginning I looked up, whether Facebook or Twitter have any project what is connected with cryptos.
I then came across Steemit and read a lot about it I also viewed several videos. After that, I immediately opened an account with Steemit and invested half a Bitcoin in Steem. Since then, I am a happy member of Steemit
Without the accident, I would not have had so much time to bump into Steemit, I'm very grateful to the driver of the pickup truck, even that sounds a little stupid, without him I might not be at Steemit yet.
My wounds are all good healed and I can walk quite well again.
Here is a picture of my leg:
In my crypto research the first few months I was watching any youtube video Icould get my hands on that felt unbiased (not pumping a specific coin). I could listen to the videos while driving at work in between jobs. Naturally I knew of @jerrybanfield and saw his first video about steemit, but the big one for me was following @boxmining. He set me up so well with my expectations for the platform. He showed his first few weeks of posts making nothing, and how it progressed. I would have to say @boxmining is the reason I had a good attitude making nothing my first month.
At first I just did a dump of all my old art, but once I became active in chat and started creating new artwork is when steemit started working for me.
That's great! Its really counter-productive to tell people to join cause they can make mad money, they'll get disappointed quick and leave. That's really nice of @boxmining and should be considered more often to at least let them know nothing real comes too easy.
I agree. He totally shaped my expectation and I think it helped me thrive
I think I was also viewing boxmining when I 1st wanted to register.
I'm from Reddit, too. Indirectly, though: I'm an enthusiastic follower of the small but growing /r/ipfs community, and someone (presumably @heimindanger himself) had a bloody lengthy post about DTube - since I know IPFS, it was the opportunity I was looking for!
Soon realized, obviously that DTube is built mostly around Steemit, and while initially I refused to join and use the site, after learning it, it became quite engaging.
I still have a hard time find a constant and consistent place for discussions, but the "new" feed still provides some interesting stuff to read and vote on.
Well, my friend ordered me a lyft home because he wanted me to play the playstation 4 with him online and at the time I didn't have a way to get home. The lyft driver, otherwise know as Brandon @lovejoy; we talked about graphic design stuff on the way home. He then mention about steemit, a blogging website. He gave me his user name and email. I then gave him my business card so he could look at my graphic design work.
At the time, I just thought it was another plain website. So I didn't look into it until 2 months later and this was around june. I don't know what it was, but I had this gut feeling that I should check it out. So I call Brandon to set up a meeting and a week later we ended up talking a lot about steemit. At the time I didn't know anything about cryptocurrency, Witnesses, and Blockchains. Hell, I'm still confused [lol]. 110 days later I've been having a blast connecting with people, networking, and making new friends. I like sharing my animations, drawings, videos, and so much more with the community.
That's a really nice story about how you ended up here. Word of mouth has been one of Steemit's greatest marketing efforts so far!
Sorry I accidentally posted and I wasn't finished, typing on a phone is tough. (╯°□°)╯
Hahah! Even before you added that last part I went and checked on your posts. ;)
Great montage ^^