I watched this video by Dan Dicks @pressfortruth on YouTube (scroll down for the video), and it confirms what my friend Peter Gric @gric had posted some time ago on Facebook (he was talking about Instagram though):
Dear friends,
I'm done with Instagram. It's a dead end and I don't want to waste my energy there any more. It's time for you content creators to get payed for your creativity, with real value, not just with "likes" or "hearts". Don't waste yourself on platforms like Instagram or Facebook by earning THEM billions with YOUR content, with your time!
I'm moving my online activities to STEEMIT.COM, a decentralized blockchain-based social network with a promising reward systems for content creators. It's not perfect but it's a beginning. I'll keep sharing my steemit blogs on my Facebook page (facebook.com/pgric). On shitty Instagram, however, you can't even share an external web link!
So goodbye Instagram, see you on the other side!
https://steemit.com/@gric
#steemit
Now watch the video by Dan Dicks @pressfortruth to get a idea what Peter was talking about:
I am glad I joined up - this is a great platform, and like Peter, I am sharing my Steemit posts on my other social networks. Myself, I am not in it for the money - I like the ease with which to compose posts.
PS: I didn't realize Peter had posted about his choice to join on Steemit also - I could have saved myself scrolling Facebook for the post. Good bye Instagram, hello Steemit
I think you will get much out of this platform Otto! =)
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thank you Leo, I love it! To get the image from Peter for this post wasn't easy, I had to scroll quite a bit, it was already from about a month ago (on Facebook).
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hi. i found this post from Peter on facebook awhile back,
and that is the reason i am here today!
If Peter did not post this back then, i would be still frustrated on facebook.
Best :-)
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Same for me :-)
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good - making waves! I posted a number of my Steemit posts on Facebook and invited some of my artist friends to join.
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Well, you could have asked Peter for it. ;-)
I've been studying the successful people on this platform, and the major ingredient appears to be regular posting. I'm sure you will not be short of content to post. =)
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I barely just begun! There are a lot of things languishing in obscurity that I plan on bringing out here to, what seems to be, a much better audience!
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Yes! There is an audience. It's like the good old days of some of the sites we used to frequent years ago before Facebook squashed them.
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If I may add my opinion from a different point of view since I am no professional artist and have not posted any work of mine lately. I have avoided Facebook/Instagram/Twitter (the Unholy Trinity!) because it seems to me that 99% of the traffic and interactions in those platforms are just meaningless likes/thumbups/+1's/whatever. You are forced to do it just because there has to be an exchange of "likes" and not doing it may have bad repercussions on your social status!
This might be normal for social exchanges, but when you want to promote your work, likes are not enough. You can post your work there but the monetary rewards are not yours, they are going to the platform owners -- it does not seem right.
Anyway, to keep it short, I totally understand why professional artists migrate to Steemit. Steemit may have the same problems (with spammer, bots, mass upvotes, beggars, etc), but there is one great incentive in addition to the usual benefits of any social network: the monetary rewards.
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Great and informative video! Thanks for finding and sharing it :-)
Hehe, Otto... didn't I have to twist your arm to come over here?
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You two are such guys in the school yard. Makes you real and fun though. I was happy to find both of you in my first week here and I think I stated then that this was my first venture into social media. The why is because social media corporately controlled in America meant social engineering to me and I also wanted to keep a low energy profile. My life is my life.
A challenge to you both. As a writer I am always hungry for artistic creation that hits the eye first. Check out some writers here that build pictures with words. One I can recommend is richq11. Not only because he was the only one to read the first chapter of my book, The Scream Dance, and comment but because he was also born in 1945 and we have a lifetime together. His mind is fantastic. Take a journey with him.
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Hahaha... you should see us in real life!
..and we are all part of the machinery already. For an artist promoting yourself and your work its pretty much inevitable... unless you are so famous, that you don't care.
Just because richq11 was the only one commenting, it doesn't mean, I didn't read it! You actually have 9 views there and I am certainly at least one of them. Thing is, I tend to read things several times, to really get into it, but I restrict my computer time (mostly) to some time in the morning while I wake up having a big pot of coffee and some time in the evening. Painting takes most of my day, as I paint rather slowly..
So, reading longer texts is quite challenging, because I hate doing it in haste. Sometimes I even print them out...
You know what would be great? Make your own audio book! Read and record your own writing. Today, probably everyone can do it with a cell phone... and then I can listen to it while I paint. Plus, you get even more upvotes, when you post the file to DTube
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I fully agree, it was about time that all this effort and creativity was rewarded. Yes, we do have fun when posting, commenting, liking, etc, but social media are virtual banks of valuable resources and information, where we invest plenty of time, effort and even our trust. That, to me, has a value. Thanks for this post!
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Thank you - I am having fun here, and the bonus is that it doesn't take up any more of my time than what I had spent posting on other social media, and I simply share with a click everywhere else. My personal FB account is synced with twitter, so when I share my post on FB, it also goes to Twitter.
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very informative good video. with a good voice :-) i am going to follow him, i would like to know more on this subject. I also noticed how facebook likes simply stopped since i have paid them plenty dollars before. :-(
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I go to post this video in my fb to see what happens
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Hi! I am a robot. I just upvoted you! I found similar content that readers might be interested in:
https://www.facebook.com/hallett.dane
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Fool - not even close. You ought to get your robot brain rewired.
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I make this too :) and I share in Facebook just steemit links and soon I start in Instagram too.
They not share and show what I too. but the same time they want my personal information. How can such a thing be logical, I can not say it is law. Because today, each corporation can afford to buy a law in every country if they want. I see how these great websites operate criminally and freely.
When I see this post here, then I understand I'm not the only one, and I feel from my bones that the change is not far away. Use steemit... and this makes all real.
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