For 8 years I have been creating content for YouTube & also engaging with Facebook. It's difficult to label what I do but I regard it as a form of performance art and theatre creation. Whilst they have helped me share ideas and creativity, I have also become hooked into them checking them several times a day when I could have been doing lots of other things.
You can see in this video exactly what other things I enjoy doing.
Here's some more reasons why I am moving to Steemit...
SPREADING THE LOVE
I get huge joy knowing that there are people in all sorts of remote parts of the world, who have no bank account but are earning good money from their creative output. This is not possible with Facebook and Youtube.
LARGE CORPORATIONS
I have become very suspicious of large corporations for several reasons. They become impersonal, are usually run by algorithms and they eventually move from becoming our best friend to squeezing all the juice they can out of us and working against us.
CENSORSHIP VS DECENTRALISATION
YouTube can pull the plug on ANY channel at ANY time and have no requirement to say why and no effective independent appeal system.
Recently they have demonetised the majority of films on many alternative narrative channels overnight. They have also sent me a copyright infringement for some minor issue and said if there were 2 more of those in a 6 month period, they would remove my channel.
Filmed at the royal wedding in 2011... "Is the idea of a prince real?"
So effectively, they can censor us. Same with Facebook. I know several people who have had their accounts removed.
That can't happen with blockchain technology.
WHO BENEFITS?
Facebook pay nothing for views. I had a video on Facebook with over a million views but I got nothing for it.
I have only recently started to monetise Youtube. I was very reluctant to do so because i didn't want to benefit from the obnoxious adverts. But I thought it may increase my subscriber base if it was monetised as I thought that YouTube's algorithms would send more people to my films. It hasn't really worked that way. Instead it has given me insight as to how LITTLE we get paid and also made me look at the analytics of subscriptions.
IN the past 6 months - despite having 25k subscribers and an average of 5-10k views per film, I only made $150.
On Steemit.com and Dtube there is potential to make far more money and its not coming from advertising for KFC or Barclays Bank.
After a little research into the founders and designers, I discovered that the brilliant designers have created a platform that is designed for the good of the people , connected to cryptocurrency and encourages community and cooperation as well as paying people rewards for posting good quality content, and for 'curating' others' content.
DISCOURAGING TROLLS
Another benefit of Steemit.com is that it discourages trolls through its up and down voting system.
I post a lot of videos with police officers in. And I really dislike some of the comments. For example if any officers are large bodied, there are often derogatory remarks. So I am looking forward to DTube and Steemit.com as I think it will discourage trolls and encourage intelligent comments.
Here is an example. I was doing my thing in KFC and 3 people turned up.
Here is a screen shot of the comments.
THE DOWNSIDE?
It requires work. Facebook make it very easy for you. Whilst Steemit is still in the Beta stage, so there is a lot of learning and there will be improvements. But I think its worth the effort to get in early.
IN CONCLUSION
- I will be uploading some films to DTube
- Will only be interacting with people here on Steemit