I'm a user and fan of both Medium and Steemit. For the past few months, I've been picking and choosing when to post on Steemit and when to post on Medium.
This week, I cross-posted on Steemit and Medium to test the effectiveness of each. Here are the results:
The Medium post got 2.1K views, 1.2K full reads, 48 recommends and 7 comments. It also got Tweeted over 42 times and generated a lot of great discussion on Twitter. See this thread between a Bitcoin core dev and cryptography expert and Zcash supporter as an example:
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/781516966003634176
- petertoddbtc
While the distribution, UX and discussion it the Medium post generated was fantastic, I didn't earn any money with the post. This is the one con against Medium at the moment.
The Steemit post got 21 upvotes (mostly from bots), 1 comment and didn't generate any discussion. It earned 64 cents (not great, but better than nothing).
Overall, this experiment has demonstrated to me that when I have a really meaningful post to write that I want a lot of people to see, I should continue to post on Medium. The distribution, UX , and discussion generated from Medium posts is unparalleled. The money-making opportunity on Steemit is interesting, but there's a good chance that meaningful posts on Steemit get missed. Solving this problem will be important for Steemit's ability to capture quality writers for the foreseeable future.
