My issue with DTube is that I can't keep things there forever for someone to see, even if they can't upvote it. I have recently shared some videos of old high school events on YouTube (I am 47, mind you, so I am not some high school kid sharing his latest skateboarding video).

People need an account to be able to see the stuff, They are not used to the interface and it will disappear eventually. I had to put the stuff on YouTube so I could send out a link to some old, old friends. I wanted them to be able to look at it when they wanted to, even if that meant two months from now.

I've recorded a few things and put them on DTube and have found it to have a surprisingly higher viewership which helps with the upvote department though. I have to scour through some of my recent videos, which aren't just my kids playing sports, to see if I have anything of decent content to share. I was doing quite a bit of travel up until lately, which made for easy content to share. People generally like to see video of places they've never been, or have been, or will never go to, or would like to go to. That fits a lot of categories for viewership in that one "tag" alone. It's a good media and transport for that, and if I can add to my steem power in the process, that's a win-win to me.

I am getting concerned about the price of steem continuing to drop. I have been in HODL mode for some time now, but it seems like everytime I check my wallet, despite increases in SP, my dollar value decreases overall. I like this platform. I just don't know why its not catching on more. The account creation process is a real roadblock for quick entry. Once you're in though, there are so many rabbit holes to go down, its amazing. The price of steem doesn't seem to reflect that though.