- A true competitor to major blogging and vlogging platforms such as Youtube, Wordpress, Tumbler, and Medium.
- The migration of popular youtubers and bloggers and popular independent journalists moving onto the platform.
- Growth of investors showing signs of long term support for the community.
- Best earning potential for content creators due to the absence of the middle players such as Google being between the creator and the advertisers.
- Increasing hostility and restrictions toward Youtube content creators leading to demonetization is igniting awareness of platforms like Steemit.
- A platform promoting free speech and free from censorship.
- A community driven by incentivizing quality content and communication.
- Exponential growth of the community year over year with high level of active contributors.
- A platform where creators do not have to place unwanted ads on their postings to generate revenue.
- Decentralization using blockchain technology with transaction fee completely free. Not many alt-coins have free transaction fees.
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