Since half goes to those who helped push this post up organically, at least it can feel like a generous move rather than selfishness. That page was full of greed for years with all of the paid vote riffraff. I hope it continues to be an opportunity available to all and doors don't shut again for actual content producers.

I'm not sure if I qualify for those big three names you mentioned. It's been a long while since I got that visit but I'm not complaining. Even when my posts were bottoming out, I just carried on.

Tribes. So if you look at my tags you'll see #creativecoin, #palnet, and #neoxian. Those are three different tribes.

https://www.creativecoin.xyz/@nonameslefttouse
https://www.palnet.io/@nonameslefttouse
https://www.neoxian.city/@nonameslefttouse

That's how my blog looks within each tribe. You can browse the sites and they look and feel just like Steemit. Creative Coin is for creative content only, so that helps with organization and getting eyes. I'll earn CCC tokens on top of the Steem. I stake those. Apparently I'm a whale there when I vote. Palnet and Neoxian City are much like Steemit, anything goes. Again, a chance at more visibility, plus I'm earning Palcoin and Neoxag tokens. I stake those as well, which is just like powering up.

If you were to use those three tags for something like a photography post or creative writing, art, music, whatever, even creative nonfiction — and I voted for it — you'd earn four different tokens plus have the opportunity to gain a bit more potential visibility. Simply posting from Steemit and using the tags is enough to have your work show up there. If you decide to sign in, the tribes ask for your keys. I use:
https://steemit.com/steem/@yabapmatt/hate-putting-private-keys-into-websites-introducing-steem-keychain

... to manage the keys, making sign ins a breeze. It's a browser extension. You can also use that tool to sign in here:
https://steem-engine.com

And that is an exchange where you can manage all of these new tokens.

There's a bit to learn but eventually it's all quite straightforward simple stuff.

Any questions, feel free to ask.