I got my steemit account three days ago and am really chuffed to be here, it seems like a really cool space.
I'm an original content creator and I'm sick of all my stuff being ghostbanned, vanishing down the big social media monopolies' algorithmic memory holes. This is the first time I've uploaded my stuff to a blockchain. It's exciting that these posts can't ever be censored.
I spent my first couple of days here wading through posts about cryptocurrency and markets because I made the mistake of following back ALL of the 177 profiles who had followed me. I spent most of yesterday checking out all these profiles and unfollowing most of them. A lot of them were just bots. Some were dead accounts. Most seemed to be only interested in mining the site for crypto.
I can completely understand the obsession with crypto. It's at least half of steemit's raison d'etre. The work being done here could one day reform the world's corrupt monetary system, which would be an amazing victory.
Personally though, I'm interested in reclaiming the internet (and popular culture) back from our corporate overlords, not getting rich. I'm here to escape the big social media monopolies, to continue the work I had been doing on their platforms and to find an audience that isn't controlled and manipulated by big data.
I'm interested in helping to unf**k the world.
I'm not interested in acquiring wealth, or tasty recipes or random photos of your dinner/pets/material possessions/holidays, (sorry, not sorry).
I'd really like to find and connect with more of my tribe, if they're here. The resistance; The Deep Green, Peace and Social Justice movements. Activists. Anarchists. Anti-fascists. Anti-Frackers. Anti-racists. Anonymous. Artists. Artivists. Brandals. Campaigners. Dissenters. Environmentalists. Free thinkers. Citizen Journalists. Occupiers. Protectors. Protestors. Rainbow warriors. Rebels. R3V0_|utionaries. Socialists. Solutionaries.
I've found a handful of cool people here so far but it's taken a hell of a lot of trawling.
Is there a quicker way? Do any of you good steemians have any good advice for me?
Any and all feedback welcome.
Cheers.
http://www.annnarkehmedia.com is quite good.
