i felt it was important to put up a story of getting started on the platform, after all i was gone, done with social, felt lied to on the promises of connecting with other people in a more sociable way, instead the marketers came in and ruined everything as they do, build audiences, selling stuff to us, stack it high sell it cheap, it started to feel like a social media poundland with samey graphics, blasting white noise posts, nobody knew how to get things together properly, how to incentive people properly, what was good content anyway, we had no barometer of success and it seemed all so very headless.
i was done, i was out. i had sold up and moved on -- then, with the power of 
the st33m amplify project is an effort to bring vloggers, content creators, youtubers and to bring in general the bloggers of the world into steem and show them they can add steemit to their income streams and have a more open, ad-free experience and share the wealth of their own successes over here on the platform instead of a centralized blog that currently pays them little adsense or nothing at all.
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