First and foremost, I love the concept of Steemit.

Since joining , I've spent many hours crafting content for peoples enjoyment. Being able to jump onto a blogging platform and start earning cash almost immediately was groundbreaking for me. Knowing people saw value in my content broke me out of a years-long, no-writing slump. I have finally found my joy again: sharing my information with you. Being heard and hearing. It's all any of us really want.

The sites I tried were:

Akasha

Very similar to Steemit, it uses a upvote reward system, but instead of Steem they use Ethereum

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Patreon

You get patrons to give you money to support your creations

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oNG.Social

Uses a share-in-the-ad-revenue system. I understand that they are going to use their own cryptocurrency system in the future but I saw no option to get paid in coins instead of fiat.

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LBRY

LBRY is another platform with its own currency (LBC). However it differs from Steem in a major way: all LBC that is used on the platform must be purchased or mined. Like with Akasha, the only way for content creators to get some is if someone gives it to them by supporting their post.

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Yours

Yours is possibly the most interesting of the bunch, but that could be because creator Ryan X. Charles has kept things pretty vague.

All you get when you head to his website is a brief survey asking you what kind of content you like to create, if you like curating, if you're male/female. That sort of thing.

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Synereo

"The Future of Content Creation, Publishing and Distribution - Synereo is developing tools which allow content creators to easily monetize original works without having to turn their channels into advertisment real estate, while granting their followers the opportunity to be rewarded for getting the word out."

( http://www.synereo.com)