Its hard to explain the sense of freedom that dealing with a community backed system offers.
With Twitter and Facebook, I am always wary that I may have said something that someone doesnt like and so could be neutered in posting terms, and have my article removed.
We have been with steemit for a long time and we did use if for other means, but it took a while to realize that we did have an account with Steemit and we Should be taking advantage of it.
We hope to extend the reach of worthwhile alternatives in terms of Social Media Platforms by throwing our hat in the ring and creating good platforms that are as easy to use as the ones we want to replace.
Steemit is complicated and we need to sit down and learn how to power up or down or other requirement and this is where a newbie may find steemit difficult to use and why they may revert back to the Social Platforms the Steemit and others are trying to replace
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://adamtile.press/we-are-now-posting-to-steemit-and-loving-it-sort-of/