I'm pretty sure that most of the users on Steemit, are upset at the social networks that they use. But staying active there because that's where their family, friends, and community are.
Well, in order to make this social network a succesful comptetior to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter and rest of the corporate for profit platforms, we need to increase the userbase, the more people are active on this network, the more people will decide to join.
So why the title? Why YouTubers?
Well, I'd like this post to be about ways to this platform bigger, more populated, which in turn will draw the activity from the other well established social networks, and maybe, some day, even tear them down (one can dream, can he?).
And the best way to do that, is to find to group that is being hurt by the current social networks the most, and convince them to come here, and hope they'll bring their followers with them.
So if you don't know, YouTubers have quite a few bones to pick with Zuckerberg, his social network is... well... pretty much attempting to steal as much of the YouTubers income as possible.
And it does so, by a rather evasive way, at least from a legal aspect.
When someone uploads a YouTube video to Facebook's servers without the permission of the owner of that video, the video stays on Facebook's servers, available for everyone to see, until the owner finds the pirated video(or more accurately - stumbles upon) and fills on online form requesting Facebook to take the video down.
The time it takes Facebook to actually take down the video is somewhere between a few days, to a few weeks. And that's pretty convinient, because during that time, Zuckerberg is still making money from ads being shown alongisde that video.
That would be analogous for someone to upload an episode of The Simpsons to YouTube, and receive the ad revenue through Adsense, without giving 20th Television (the distributor of the series) their share.
If that isn't enough, Facebook burying YouTube videos in the news feed, to prevent users from leaving its site\app. It means that good content isn't necessarily being shown, while mediocre content will, as long as its being uploaded to Facebook's servers.
And that's one of the reasons I hope Steemit will succeed. I really think it's about time content would be promoted based on quality, and not based on where it was uploaded to...
Please share this 'article', if you agree that bringing in the content creators will give this platform the push it desperately needs.