Steem is getting a lot of attention lately
Only in this week:
- Zerohedge.com posted an article about the power of Steem to preserve truth.
- @davidhay posted a Youtube video wherein he explained Steem to his over 100,000 Youtube subscribers.
- @tjkirk, with over a million subscribers on YouTube, has decided to embrace Steemit and DTube and is looking for the door on Youtube because of censorship.
All the censorship that is going on on Twitter, Google and Youtube due to governments who want to control what is posted on social media, is very positive for Steem. On the Steem blockchain you can simply speak the truth and record it for all time. No one can delete your content, never! It is stored on the blockchain forever.
Steem on Zerohedge.com
The article is about the war that is heating up against our freedom to speak online and how Steem is an important tool to defend this freedom.
Quotes from the article:
You can’t hack something whose underlying content is stored in a distributed blockchain. Because the blockchain’s ledger is immutable, what you wrote is preserved in all of its glory (ignominious or otherwise) forever.
Steem is the way to beat them at their own game, without using their methods. Simply speak the truth and record it for all time.
Read the whole article here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/ai-censorship-and-power-steem-preserve-truth
A very positive video about Steem by @davidhay
Steem is really a revolutionary blockchain technology. In fact, Steem is one of the first blockchain technologies that people use while they do not even know they are using a blockchain.
Steem is a platform where we can contribute content and ideas and where we don't have to rely on advertising revenue.
Unfortunately, he still talked about the 100% inflation rate of Steem. This high inflation rate was months ago and today Steem has an inflation rate of about 8.5%. See page 2 of the Steem Bluepaper for more info about the inflation rate of STEEM.
Despite this, it is a very positive video so thank you @davidhay for telling your audience about this great platform.
TJ Kirk on Steem
@tjkirk is a Youtuber since November 2006 and has over a million subscribers on his main channel. Although, I don't really like his videos to be honest, I'm of course happy he says he is looking for the door on Youtube and joined Steemit and DTube instead.
Kirk joined Steemit 3 days ago and you can read his introduction post here. This post has a $1,124 dollar potential payout. Not bad for a first post ;-)
I think we have enough reasons to remain very bullish on Steem! :)
DTube is awesome and because Youtube is making it more and more difficult to monetize video content I think we can expect many more famous Youtubers to switch to DTube in the time ahead.
these are very good evolutions! we might see faster and more adoption soon!
O wow, it is really great. I just checked TJ's post. I think this type of marketing will help many people to join steemit and due to youtube's recent news, it is prime time for steem and dtube to attract users.
penguins for real news! we want penguins!
true story
My family’s income was based on a large portion of my Youtube account UNTIL they suspended it because of a post I made... nothing crazy, but one person felt it crossed the line, and like that my account of 15 million views and over 25k subscribers was gone! It left me without the ability to get sponsorship or network/partner money (which was shared!)
Long story short, I appreciate steemit for repowering me to have the ability to make more of an income from my social media... censorship will kill the other platforms... long live steemit!
@penguinpablo
Hey, thanks for linking to my article on Zerohedge. I've posted it here on steemit as well (in fact it was birthed here, then x-posted).
https://steemit.com/promo-steem/@goldgoatsnguns/ai-censorship-another-person-wakes-up-to-why-steem-is-the-future
I fully embrace this platform as the future of creator-owned communication and have written a lot "in the real world" about it. It is one of the main ways we will undermine this control system they have planned for us.
Since I own the copyright, this article and pretty much everything I write on Crypto/steem/etc... makes it's way onto Medium and, now, Zerohedge. I don't write for them, they just scrape what I post to my blog.
Thanks again. Great post.
cool, didn't know this was yours...great work!; I'll change my blog to reflect your post instead of ZeroHedge
thanks!
Check the by-lines at the top.... they've been scraping pretty much everything I write at this point. It's kinda spooky. No complaints however.
This is a fantastic idea:steemit as the base layer where one writes, then send off to other platforms from there.
I've always been a bit annoyed doing it the other way, as the cheetah bot can't determine if I wrote the original or not (I like cheetah bot).
Thanks for the inspiration!
They don't scrape my steemit blog. They scrape my public blog at www.goldgoatsnguns.com and that's where I really want to drive traffic for my patreon/newsletter service.
But, ancilliary income accruing to steemit and bridging both worlds? It works.
Thanks-going to look deeper into this as well.
you've mentioned before that you don't mind as long as they give you credit and a link.
I know I'm getting old, I read your article yesterday, and didn't recognize the same article at ZH today ;>
Believe me, the benefits are great for both sides. They get great content, I get spill over traffic and a much higher Google SEO rating, since they do repackage the article a bit.
Sure ZH gets the lion's share but getting the exposure and regular readers to the blog is something I wouldn't get otherwise. You want your work disseminated as far and wide as possible.
Steemit is the future. Facebook and YouTube are dying...
I believe we are going to see this more and more over 2018 and beyond, because people are just fed up with all the centralized bullshit going on!
Plus, YouTube pays balls to creators, assuming they could even monetize their content. Oh, and now, somebody just starting out needs 1,000 subscribers, and 4,000 hours of watch time just to be considered by Google to have monetization capabilities.
Whereas on Steemit and DTube, creators have the ability to earn money for their creations on day one! 🐳
Remember Steemit is still in beta platform. Its still a baby with a lot of potential growth. When Clif High talks about how we'll see a huge growth in people and crypto currencies, Steemit should be top of the charts for beginners. What better way to get your feet wet for the majority of the world still in the dark about cryptos.
Well, Steem has a lot of benefits and it is a leader of this area. I hope it will never be stopped by governments or influent people. In fact, there need to be shut down just 100 computers of witnesses, but this is very unlikely to happen :)
sounds good