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 :)