Last year, in August, we started moving our content from Youtube to the Steem blockchain. We weren't really expecting much. But when the price of Steem suddenly started going up, it actually seemed like a good alternative to Youtube and other social media platforms, and for a few weeks it seemed like we could offset a lower initial user base by being able to invest more in creating better content with higher production value. That would, in time, lead to more attention and a broader audience. Sadly, when the price went down, that idea went out the door. What we were left with was just another platform that's there as a secondary back-up, like LBRY.

Why? Very few people actually use Steemit for the content itself. Half that million users are bots and alt accounts, getting your content out there was mostly a matter of paying bots to propagate and hope some actual humans see it. You have to "game" the system as much as you would the Youtube algorithm, and honestly I have no patience for that bullshit. And then there's the issue of some dApps jumping ship to different blockchains. So that effort was wasted.

Maybe in a few years (if it's not replaced by something better that actually invested in developing itself when its currency had value instead of investing millions in dLive), Steemit will be a viable alternative for content creators. Until then, the burden of growing the platform is put on the content creators, which isn't really an optimal situation, since a content creator is a bit busy actually making stuff, not marketing one of the dozen platforms they put their content on, hoping that it'll reach an audience it will resonate with.