My User Experience On Quora

After starting to participate in @theycallmedan's Quora Onboarding Initiative a month ago, I have become active on Quora for the first time for a long time. I have written tons of answers to questions both in English but particularly in Finnish for a change. I just love the format. A clear question allows me to create walls of text quickly and efficiently. In a month or so, my answers have had about 15,000 views.

But content on Quora is very difficult to monetize, which is why I'm not interested in seriously pushing for higher view counts there. You could promote your content elsewhere on Quora but that could lead to getting banned which is what happened to Dave Hamrick a couple of years ago. I dropped a comment in which I explained what Steem was and how blockchain-based content delivery can protect a content creator. I also pointed out how Steem apps distribute roughly 10,000 times more in rewards per monthly active user than Quora.

Here's my response to his blog post:

Blockchain-based social media/content delivery platforms for the word.
There is an app that works pretty much like Quora called Musing at musing.io that works like Quora but all the content are stored on the Steem blockchain. The upvotes are paid out in STEEM, SBD and Steem Power that are cryptocurrencies native to the Steem platform. They are traded on open cryptocurrency markets globally and are worth money.

The best aspect of the platform is that nothing can be censored from the Steem blockchain. Downvoted by the community and thus demonetized but not censored. Musing.io the website and front end is controlled by the app owners, though.

But the beautiful thing is this: There are many Steem front ends that are open source and everything accessible through Musing.io can be accessed from multiple other front ends. You can’t simply lose your content or your followers or your history of communications with them on Steem. That’s because Steem is decentralized and not controlled by any single entity.
All Steem apps have about 30,000 monthly active users put together whereas Quora has 300 000 000. Steem rewards are only slightly smaller than those paid out by Quora to its Partners, which means that Steem pays roughly 10,000 times better. And it’s a cryptocurrency bear market now … Bitcoin’s mining reward halving is in May 2020, which has always lead to positive price action. The rest of the cryptocurrency market tends to follow Bitcoin.

Now, it would be great if we could get more people to use Musing. What troubles me with Musing is not that the delegation that got pulled in 2018 but the fact that there are so few users on it. I could discuss history and a lot of other topics to no end on Musing while earning STEEM if there were anyone to discuss it with me...