Join Me on Steemit!

(this is for my audience on Twitter, YouTube, and Vidme, to help them feel more comfortable with making the jump to Steemit. Since I used to put my scripts up on Medium, I figured I'd do the same here.)

I'm putting my foot down, and you should too. Yes, you, content-creator with an enormous following.

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The market for content creators with right-leaning or even just anti-social justice content has been shrinking rapidly in the last few months, and while the largest YouTubers might not be noticing the sting, there are those of us whose careers are only a year old, and are seeing the pinch of Google and Jigsaw's algorithms on our views. Videos are being demonetized without reason, frivolously and without consequence from YouTube, Twitter is almost impossible to use with the shadowban system in effect, and worst of all, we are all bound to these two social networks for the work that we do, due to the massive audience these two websites provide.

But they very obviously don't want us.

So I have a proposition for you: drop Twitter and join me on Steemit. What is Steemit, you ask? It's a blockchain-based social network and content-reward platform, built atop what I consider a brilliant cryptocurrency market with built-in gamification. In other words, by creating and curating content on Steemit, you are moving a market of content-creation and bitcoin-alternatives (which I'll get to momentarily), and earning cryptocurrency in the process.

At face value, it is very simple (though somewhat intimidating for some): when you sign up, you're going to be assigned a long, randomly-generated password. You're gonna wanna save this password where ever you save your passwords, and then log in. It'll seem a little bit like Twitter and Reddit had baby that was born with autism, but as you explore you'll learn three simple rules to the system.

Post Content, Earn Pennies

As you explore the "New", "Hot", and "Trending" tabs, try up-voting one of the articles. You may notice that your upvote drives a little counter next to it up one cent or two. And, if you upvote something before it gets popular, you will in turn get some cryptocurrency yourself, for contributing to the curation of content!

Curators make pennies too!

If you're not a content creator, but people follow your Twitter specifically for your retweets, you should definitely give Steemit a look; after 7 days, the accumulated value of a post is divvied up between the content creator and the curators who spread the content, with 25% being divided amongst the curators themselves.

It's a Market

The entire Steemit network is powered by three cryptocurrencies of differing purpose (and unfortunately confusing names): Steem, Steem Power, and Steem Dollars, abbreviated SBD. Steem is the base liquid cryptocurrency, designed to be a token that is exchanged for other tokens or currencies, including USD. Steem Power is less liquid, representing the social influence a user holds within the network; this serves curators very well, allowing them to stand alongside their content creators. And SBD is a liquid, stable-value cryptocurrency pegged against the US Dollar, designed to be used for purchases in cryptocurrency shops. With these three separate currencies, the market is kept in-check and almost assuredly will reach an equilibrium under most circumstances -- and it's entirely powered by people publishing their content there, people upvoting and re-steeming content, as well as people mining the cryptocurrency and people day-trading it!

With a functional and useful API, the developers we all know and love can begin working on different interfaces for personal websites or curated news sites or mobile apps or anything else you could want, and the content creators and the audience could shape a cryptocurrency with just their production and involvement.

So, what do you say?