1)you earn money when people like and upvote your content
2)the money is instantly at your disposal
3)you gain a following / fans with your posts
4)you can link to your own blog or other social media profiles in your post
5)nobody can delete your post because steemit stores it in a database which makes copies of itself all over the world (decentralized blockchain)
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