Well to answer your question I have a list of more than 5 social platforms built on the blockchain (different blockchains) that are ready to rival or are trying to compete with Steemit. I had made a post about platforms that are trying to compete with steemit or rather platforms that are doing similar thing to what steemit is doing a few months ago and since then, more social platforms have been developed. There are still many more being developed.
Below is a list of platforms similar/closely similar to steemit.
Yours.org
A content platform built on the bitcoincash blockchain where users earn monetary rewards in bitcoincash for creating and sharing content. Users can post different forms of contents e,g articles, pictures and videos.
Sapien
A democratized social news platform capable of rewarding millions of content creators and curators without any centralized intermediaries. Sapien has been built for Creators, Content curators ,Developers ,Freelancers ,Media Companies. The platform is already launched and running.
Narrative
A content community platform that rewards creators, moderators and all users who add value to the Narrative platform. 85 percent of all revenue is distributed to users. The full Narrative platform will launch later this year.
U Network (UUU)
This is the platform that I think is very similar to steemit. U-Network is a platform for publishing and valuing online content. It rewards content creators more for their work, by letting users earn money for predicting popular content, by making it easier to discover high quality content, and by allowing all users to be part of content moderation and governance decisions.
Typerium
A decentralised content-creation platform, social media network, and marketplace,
that's geared towards the more than 2.4 billion content consumers worldwide. Still under development.
Galactikka
A powerful social network with a decentralized ad platform and reputation system where anyone can get paid for content.
Content Neutrality Network
An innovative content ecosystem based on blockchain technology. The aim of this platform is to break the barrier between content communities, revolutionizes revenue share, and decentralizes user acquisition and incentive program, creating a more open, efficient and trustworthy content era.
Reos
Reos is a decentralized content platform that will help maximize earnings for content creators through the tokenization of digital content.
Lunyr
This the world's first decentralized knowledge base built on the ethereum blockchain. Users submit articles and are rewarded with lunyr tokens.
There are many content blockchain platforms ready to compete with Steem although Steem is still King. Lets wait and see how Steemit will hold this top position or whether it will be overtaken by other new platforms in the blockchain space. It's only a matter of time :)
am i wrong or do they all look like "writers-only" ... there seems to be a strange notion of what content means .. .but if it helps to get steemcleaners out of here i'm down with it
They are not specifically meant for writers only. Some of them (most of them actually) are meant for all sorts of content creation... From writing articles, making videos,creating Music, photography and many others. So you are probably somehow wrong... I didn't get your point on Steemcleaners though. Please make me understand If you don't mind :)
i dont mind, when i got just on steem they wrecked all my posts without any relevance to content or whatever for weeks, and i still dont know what i said to make that happen, all i know is it happened after an hour in steemchat, which i have never visited again , i think downvoters and blacklisters are the real problem of steemit as they have this weird notion that they hold the holy grail of what content means and they get to decide who gets something or not, it's elitist, and fascist :-)
bots that just run around on blacklists without being able to read ? people who will tell you that your content is "fit for steemit or not" ?
that's dictatorship, abuse of power or at best enlightened despotism (a bit like the EU) i think they're scum, rich scum with zero talent, if downvoting were removed those people would find nothing to do because they dont have anything in them, they could use all that clout to promote, but they use it to destroy,
they're the enemy
Getting flagged or downvoted has always been my biggest fear on this platform. Probably also scary for everybody else who understands the damage it causes to one's reputation. Luckily for me, I have never had any downvote or flagging from steemcleaners but I have had downvotes and a couple flagging from normal accounts for trying to tell the truth and at some point for posting my own original content. Perhaps some people don't really understand the main purpose of the flag and downvote button It is true that some people are here to suppress others using the massive quantity of Steem Power they have and abuse the flag feature and it's just sad that there is actually nothing that the oppressed can. Try pointing it and you are in for some more flagging. There sure is some sort of dictatorship, lack of freedom of speech and lack of equality as it should be.
Maybe that will be fixed in the near future ! We don't know just yet. Sorry had to go through a rough starting on this platform.
hahah, well, nothing good comes for free as they say, i still don't feel like censoring myself or "trying to" post only what will be accepted, if i'm not me i will burn out , if i am just me i can just do what i do anyway hahah, yea it was rough but since its something i chose to do i wont quit easily lol, if it were something i was "made to" do however i'd be sabotaging it myself from the very start. I don't know enough about how deeply rooted the negative voting weight is in the core mechanics of steemchain so i cant just go crusading about it but i'm sure it must be possible, problem is it takes x% of top witness votes and some of those are full-time crusaders lol. I think the only way is opposition and not fall for the pitfall to "repay the favour", although i did, i wrote a special script to sift through my account histories (which i keep locally, they update incrementally for maximum speed and least network stress) to check on everything from outgoing transfers to up and downvotes , after which i can filter the output files for certain accountnames and so on. After that initial onslaught i have barely gotten any , and as far as i can see i have three downvotes i cast myself, one because i fell for it, the other two on an alt account i can only assume that was a mis-click :/ but its still a stain on my record :)
its basically cutting into someone's income so i wouldnt be surprised if at later dates and higher levels lawsuits come from it, its not like blocking someone on twitter, right? you actually TAKE their money away by doing it ... there's no legal precedents since all blockchain tek is in babysteps, even BTC isnt 20 years old yet but im quite sure there will be those who sue over time, in which case, with an immutable ledger there will be a shitstorm, pardon my french, worst scenario a split like eth/etc ...
so i keep saying -> dont flag, dont downvote ... DONT feed the trolls
yes there are some blockchain blogging platform arising lately like SCORUM and UNO these are blogging platform. scorum is only for sport post and they are also trying to start beating platform so may be they will try to competition with steemit in future. second one is UNO best thing i like in this blogging platform is they have mobile app and its so user friendly. both platform are arising lately so they needs to take time for popularity but if they make strong community then they will be biggest competitor for steemit. its not easy to competition with steemit bcz steemit is first blogging platform on blockchain and first is always take place in our mind. i have just shared two competitors may be there are some other.but steemit is my fav and i know it will be best platform in near future.
Of course there is and there will be competition. Everything which attracts a number of possible customers / investors / … has competitors and it is good like this. Without competition there is no incentive to do better and to improve something. @sagar1259 already mentioned some competitors.
If you want to cover the topic of competition here, you'd need to define which sector you mean. Steemit as a blockchain has many functionalities and they will increase with SMTs. Several DApps are build on Steemit, all covering different sectors and all have competitors.
E.g. Steepshot is a DApp build to share your images. Kind of instagram. There is already sola.ai as competitor and with APPICS there will also be one on the Steemit blockchain. There is a big competition.
Also DTube and Dlive who are competitors for themselves, both on the Steemit blockchain (well,. at least a bit as videos and images are not stored on Steemit).
But there are also DApps with nearly no competitor from the cryptocurrency scene at the moment, at least I don't know competitors for Fundition or Utopian.
As of till now there is a few other blockchain based blogging sites but all of them are specific demographic based. For example there is golos.io, an exact copy of steemit but based on russian linguistics and the majority of its community are also russian. It has golos, a token works similarly as steem and GP similar to Steem Power.
Another one would be scorum.com . Pretty similar to steemit but its content are sports driven. Both golos and scorum uses a DPOS based blockchain to validate its blocks . Other ones like mythril or uno also works with similar blockchains
Now to come to the real question, are they steems competetion? When you say steem as a boockchain based blogging platform you know that steem supports a variety of content typology where other ones are specific content driven and demographic based. For example, scorum is a sports blogging site, golos is russian, lit is photography based lifestyle blogging platform. To take them as comepetition they are but only partially. Whereas steem is a self sufficient and is whole on its own. So to me i think they are somewhat of a competition but to surpass steem they have a long way to go.
And another thing is Dan Larimar spoke about bringing steem 2.0 based on eos. Untill that there are no true cometition to steem as of now. Atleast thats what i think.
i tried out all networks listed below (or above by the time i post this) two actually sent me a mail
one of those has a registration process that asks me for my mothers panty size, then blocks because "i need to fill in my name" (which i did)
and the other wants me to buy tokens to post
the rest is at ICO stage and will gladly redirect you to a HOW-TO on how to buy their tokens before they have anything to show ...
also, Tron announced their masterplan might take two decades and minds also expects you to pay ETH first before you can withdraw any token at all, they wont even convert what you have for you ... so i think we're stuck with steemit for a while
i dont think we're quite there yet (or should i put this in a ten-paragraph letter to be considered an answer ;)
Well to answer your question I have a list of more than 5 social platforms built on the blockchain (different blockchains) that are ready to rival or are trying to compete with Steemit. I had made a post about platforms that are trying to compete with steemit or rather platforms that are doing similar thing to what steemit is doing a few months ago and since then, more social platforms have been developed. There are still many more being developed.
Below is a list of platforms similar/closely similar to steemit.
Yours.org
A content platform built on the bitcoincash blockchain where users earn monetary rewards in bitcoincash for creating and sharing content. Users can post different forms of contents e,g articles, pictures and videos.
Sapien
A democratized social news platform capable of rewarding millions of content creators and curators without any centralized intermediaries. Sapien has been built for Creators, Content curators ,Developers ,Freelancers ,Media Companies. The platform is already launched and running.
Narrative
A content community platform that rewards creators, moderators and all users who add value to the Narrative platform. 85 percent of all revenue is distributed to users. The full Narrative platform will launch later this year.
U Network (UUU)
This is the platform that I think is very similar to steemit. U-Network is a platform for publishing and valuing online content. It rewards content creators more for their work, by letting users earn money for predicting popular content, by making it easier to discover high quality content, and by allowing all users to be part of content moderation and governance decisions.
Typerium
A decentralised content-creation platform, social media network, and marketplace,
that's geared towards the more than 2.4 billion content consumers worldwide. Still under development.
Galactikka
A powerful social network with a decentralized ad platform and reputation system where anyone can get paid for content.
Content Neutrality Network
An innovative content ecosystem based on blockchain technology. The aim of this platform is to break the barrier between content communities, revolutionizes revenue share, and decentralizes user acquisition and incentive program, creating a more open, efficient and trustworthy content era.
Reos
Reos is a decentralized content platform that will help maximize earnings for content creators through the tokenization of digital content.
Lunyr
This the world's first decentralized knowledge base built on the ethereum blockchain. Users submit articles and are rewarded with lunyr tokens.
There are many content blockchain platforms ready to compete with Steem although Steem is still King. Lets wait and see how Steemit will hold this top position or whether it will be overtaken by other new platforms in the blockchain space. It's only a matter of time :)
am i wrong or do they all look like "writers-only" ... there seems to be a strange notion of what content means .. .but if it helps to get steemcleaners out of here i'm down with it
They are not specifically meant for writers only. Some of them (most of them actually) are meant for all sorts of content creation... From writing articles, making videos,creating Music, photography and many others. So you are probably somehow wrong... I didn't get your point on Steemcleaners though. Please make me understand If you don't mind :)
i dont mind, when i got just on steem they wrecked all my posts without any relevance to content or whatever for weeks, and i still dont know what i said to make that happen, all i know is it happened after an hour in steemchat, which i have never visited again , i think downvoters and blacklisters are the real problem of steemit as they have this weird notion that they hold the holy grail of what content means and they get to decide who gets something or not, it's elitist, and fascist :-)
bots that just run around on blacklists without being able to read ? people who will tell you that your content is "fit for steemit or not" ?
that's dictatorship, abuse of power or at best enlightened despotism (a bit like the EU) i think they're scum, rich scum with zero talent, if downvoting were removed those people would find nothing to do because they dont have anything in them, they could use all that clout to promote, but they use it to destroy,
they're the enemy
i hope that clarified it
Getting flagged or downvoted has always been my biggest fear on this platform. Probably also scary for everybody else who understands the damage it causes to one's reputation. Luckily for me, I have never had any downvote or flagging from steemcleaners but I have had downvotes and a couple flagging from normal accounts for trying to tell the truth and at some point for posting my own original content. Perhaps some people don't really understand the main purpose of the flag and downvote button It is true that some people are here to suppress others using the massive quantity of Steem Power they have and abuse the flag feature and it's just sad that there is actually nothing that the oppressed can. Try pointing it and you are in for some more flagging. There sure is some sort of dictatorship, lack of freedom of speech and lack of equality as it should be.
Maybe that will be fixed in the near future ! We don't know just yet. Sorry had to go through a rough starting on this platform.
hahah, well, nothing good comes for free as they say, i still don't feel like censoring myself or "trying to" post only what will be accepted, if i'm not me i will burn out , if i am just me i can just do what i do anyway hahah, yea it was rough but since its something i chose to do i wont quit easily lol, if it were something i was "made to" do however i'd be sabotaging it myself from the very start. I don't know enough about how deeply rooted the negative voting weight is in the core mechanics of steemchain so i cant just go crusading about it but i'm sure it must be possible, problem is it takes x% of top witness votes and some of those are full-time crusaders lol. I think the only way is opposition and not fall for the pitfall to "repay the favour", although i did, i wrote a special script to sift through my account histories (which i keep locally, they update incrementally for maximum speed and least network stress) to check on everything from outgoing transfers to up and downvotes , after which i can filter the output files for certain accountnames and so on. After that initial onslaught i have barely gotten any , and as far as i can see i have three downvotes i cast myself, one because i fell for it, the other two on an alt account i can only assume that was a mis-click :/ but its still a stain on my record :)
its basically cutting into someone's income so i wouldnt be surprised if at later dates and higher levels lawsuits come from it, its not like blocking someone on twitter, right? you actually TAKE their money away by doing it ... there's no legal precedents since all blockchain tek is in babysteps, even BTC isnt 20 years old yet but im quite sure there will be those who sue over time, in which case, with an immutable ledger there will be a shitstorm, pardon my french, worst scenario a split like eth/etc ...
so i keep saying ->
dont flag, dont downvote ... DONT feed the trolls
;-)
yes there are some blockchain blogging platform arising lately like SCORUM and UNO these are blogging platform. scorum is only for sport post and they are also trying to start beating platform so may be they will try to competition with steemit in future. second one is UNO best thing i like in this blogging platform is they have mobile app and its so user friendly. both platform are arising lately so they needs to take time for popularity but if they make strong community then they will be biggest competitor for steemit. its not easy to competition with steemit bcz steemit is first blogging platform on blockchain and first is always take place in our mind. i have just shared two competitors may be there are some other.but steemit is my fav and i know it will be best platform in near future.
Of course there is and there will be competition. Everything which attracts a number of possible customers / investors / … has competitors and it is good like this. Without competition there is no incentive to do better and to improve something. @sagar1259 already mentioned some competitors.
If you want to cover the topic of competition here, you'd need to define which sector you mean. Steemit as a blockchain has many functionalities and they will increase with SMTs. Several DApps are build on Steemit, all covering different sectors and all have competitors.
E.g. Steepshot is a DApp build to share your images. Kind of instagram. There is already sola.ai as competitor and with APPICS there will also be one on the Steemit blockchain. There is a big competition.
Also DTube and Dlive who are competitors for themselves, both on the Steemit blockchain (well,. at least a bit as videos and images are not stored on Steemit).
But there are also DApps with nearly no competitor from the cryptocurrency scene at the moment, at least I don't know competitors for Fundition or Utopian.
As of till now there is a few other blockchain based blogging sites but all of them are specific demographic based. For example there is golos.io, an exact copy of steemit but based on russian linguistics and the majority of its community are also russian. It has golos, a token works similarly as steem and GP similar to Steem Power.
Another one would be scorum.com . Pretty similar to steemit but its content are sports driven. Both golos and scorum uses a DPOS based blockchain to validate its blocks . Other ones like mythril or uno also works with similar blockchains
Now to come to the real question, are they steems competetion? When you say steem as a boockchain based blogging platform you know that steem supports a variety of content typology where other ones are specific content driven and demographic based. For example, scorum is a sports blogging site, golos is russian, lit is photography based lifestyle blogging platform. To take them as comepetition they are but only partially. Whereas steem is a self sufficient and is whole on its own. So to me i think they are somewhat of a competition but to surpass steem they have a long way to go.
And another thing is Dan Larimar spoke about bringing steem 2.0 based on eos. Untill that there are no true cometition to steem as of now. Atleast thats what i think.
i tried out all networks listed below (or above by the time i post this) two actually sent me a mail
one of those has a registration process that asks me for my mothers panty size, then blocks because "i need to fill in my name" (which i did)
and the other wants me to buy tokens to post
the rest is at ICO stage and will gladly redirect you to a HOW-TO on how to buy their tokens before they have anything to show ...
also, Tron announced their masterplan might take two decades and minds also expects you to pay ETH first before you can withdraw any token at all, they wont even convert what you have for you ... so i think we're stuck with steemit for a while
i dont think we're quite there yet (or should i put this in a ten-paragraph letter to be considered an answer ;)
fyi , *dont believe the hype*