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A few months ago Steam it laid off 70% of their employees as the company is struggling to meet their financial goals. We all know its dead. Is there any better alternative? And do you think such alternatives can survive?

As long as I know steemit pay their employees with fiat, means that in the bearish market steemit may struggle to pay their employees. I don't think steemit is dead yet, they can change their payment structure.

And about the alternative, im not really sure but Mithril is the closest one to steemit.

I couldn't recommende steemit for any of my friends anymore because steemit is presently suffering from the bearish market condition, I guess its same with all other projects too,only the strong will survive

Which one of the other alternatives you think are strong ones? I guess Akasha is also dead for a long time. Same goes with saipen.

Well paying them in Steem won't solve the issue. Thing is people have sort of lost interest in blockchain. I mean why would any creator comes here if he is already making thousands of dollars on Youtube for example.

Steemit was supposed to be a blog platform where people would be rewarded in steemit coins by peers for their blog posts. In theory there was no reason for it to not work and it was even expected to take on Medium, Wordpress as a new blockchain based alternative. I guess the performance of its coin may be leading to its demise but it might pick up again if coin prices change, so I wouldn't say it's over yet.

I am sure steemit can recover , the main reason why steemit is in trouble now is because it was built on blockchain technology and we all know the situation of the market right now, so as long as we are still in a bearish market stage steemit it would still continue to have problem but since the market situation has been increasing for a while now.... i can say  steemit can definitely recover because mideum is not a very nice option

Steam it was a good project and their steam coin was really doing well in the market before the bear market set in on us. The effect of the bearish market hit other projects too and everyone is doing all they can to survive. I do not believe that steam it will die. The project will survive and bounce back. Maybe Reddit may likely be alternative.

I don't know how many people were fired from this company,but I still read a lot of information there.An alternative can naturally become-https://medium.com (https://medium.com) or platform on the blockchain https://golos.io (https://golos.io)

Steem was dead the day they claimed to be creating a decentralized platform but they ended up creating a centralized one and then added their token on top of it then the final blow was when they started giving away a lot of money so that people could spam on their platform with low quality stuff.

there can not be an alternative to a broken design like this.

True i even noticed a guy that was posting like 10-20 copy/paste memes from internet and had like 10$ of steemit upvotes for each post in 2017-2018 . Currently each post is worth like few cents , but anyway not sure if steemit is dead , im still reading it day by day . Maybe there is not alot of activity like it was before because of the steemit price . If they will change payment structure or something then probably will get better .

   New information`s about steemit I didn`t know about. I have account there but I`m not so active. I didn`t
find something that will attract my attention. Twitter is much better place.
   It will be hard for any decentralized social platform to make something while Twitter and Facebook are around.
Or I`m wrong?

Steemit was overly influenced by the ongoing decline in the market. And the Steemit went down to a fairly large shrinkage. But I still believe that Steemit can recover. Especially after the market starts to rise, Steemit will start to grow again. That's why I don't suggest an alternative to Steemit because I still think that Steemit will not die.

I don't know what kind of alternatives your looking for, all i can think off is Medium, besides that i don't know any websites that is like steemit. having them removing 70% of the employees doesn't mean the website is dead.

There are some alternatives just like medium but this doesn't pay the content creator. There is another platform like akasha but i don't know if that was still working or not. Just remember there are some similar platforms like steemit that called minds,LBRY, zappl but i never get the latest update about them all.

The dismissal was a necessity, and although the situation apparently is not really pleasant, there are no substitutions for Steam yet!

Lol, sounds abit funny
But steemit is a blog platform and if you think people do not earn from steemit
You are mistaken

If bitcoin could come down to 3400$ from 20,000$
How can you blame the bearish price in steemit ??

There are many social media platforms on blockchain but steemit was the leader ,in my opinion bearish market affected the Steemit very much, when the market can recovery i hope steemit can show itself again.

I don't know that you have ever heard about "murmur". Actually it looks like Twitter. But it is also related with Steemit. It is connected with EOS blockchain and not Ethereum like Steemit.

So much FUD on Steemit but they are still paying in fiat the users so there are still great opportunities in the platform. You have some true in your words with the fact that the bearish market is so strong in the steemit chart but if you look closer bear market is still present everywhere on crypto and this green days should not make you to excited.

I just found out the news about steemint is dead, but still calm there are still many alternative ways to publish articles , like wordpres, golos and blogsport , the three providers did not request payment at all

I can't answer that question if steemit  is still functioning or if is dead because I can't even remember my log in information again but I think LinkedIn is better alternative.

I don't think they are dead, at least not yet. Yes, they are struggling because of this bearish market that has been happen for so long. And I think that is why they fired some of their employee, but I when they still have contributor and community that still write on their site, they are not dead yet. I can't find any alternatives for steemit until now, I think it's the only crypto sites that actually pay you for writing/contributing. (besides bitcointalk.org of course).

I looked on Google for results and most people think like you. If you are looking for alternative, do not know the projects that have the same system. But, if you want to ''write articles'', you can try the medium.

Steemit is a blogging platform that i have been actively using for some time now and I can categorically say that it seems like some of the algorithms have been altered, newbies no longer get the same type of minnow support they used to and upvotes are having a lot lesser value than they used to.

I know the bear market has played a big role in this but decentralized projects that wants to disrupt a particular system shouldn't be threatened by negative bear markets.

Steemit is dying because of it’s platform design, it is one thing to build a blockchain and another to build a user friendly blockchain, this is why bitcoin adoption will never seize because of its simplicity.

We need to stop focusing on  just building a blockchain but building something that interacts very good with users.
You can get example from facebook and youtube, very easy to use, so why will anyone want to leave facebook to use steemit even am been paid ?

I have no doubt about Steemit recovery. They have created something really big and all the troubles are caused by a bearish market. We need to wait for a little bit more time to see improvements and the market trend change.

Steemit died with the introduction of voting bots. It was against the whole idea of steemit. The basic idea was to reward the good posts but what happened with bots was that anyone with money can get upvotes and no1 was actually voting for good content anymore. Everyone wanted to get paid in return of an upvote.

I don't think Steemit will die, it's just that they have to change their payment structure by adjusting market conditions. But, if Steemit really dies then Mithril is one of the best alternatives today.

Steemit isn't dead, they are one out of the countless ICOs which have a real product. I think they are going through this phase as a result of the best run.

in such a market it is not clear which projects will be able to survive. even the largest projects such as NEM are going through very difficult times

Have you tried yours.org yet? It's much cleaner than steemit with different options to earn. minds.com is another good option and it is a decentralized platform with opensource software. But I would prefer Reddit if I don't need to earn through blogging or posting anything like this.

Steemit is a unique website running on blockchain and cryptocurrency STEEM! He can't just die. The times of the bear market will end and Steemit will recover.

This looks more like fud to me
Nothing. Is wrong with steemit and I still make my blogs daily on the websites and I also earn too

What’s the dead situation ??

Laying off % of employees does not mean that they are dead, they are struggling for sure in this market condition like all other Cryptocurrencies and projects built of Blockchain, it is totally normally especially when they are paying their employees with Fiat as someone mentioned. Also the decreasing in activities in their platform is perfectly normal and can be easily related to the market condition too.

Steemit has a working product and can only develop more, not less than has already been achieved.

Rather than Steemit itself, I think the problem is in decentralized platforms.
These platforms are seriously the wild, wild, WILD west.
Stuff like this has never been seriously done before.
There are so many unknowns that any decentralized platform or DAO will have major problems.

The very first most obvious one is that decentralized platforms are prey for scammers, spammers, and shit content.
Steemit has a large amount of these.
it's hard to navigate it all and after a certain point you just don't bother anymore.

and then, the bear market does not make steemit worth the time and investment for content creators.

all of this could potentially turn around if the market shifts and regulations are put into play.
However, there is also the chance that it won't last through this bearish period.

Steemit is not dead, it is a blog website and they are very good at it. Actually, I think Steemit should stop rewarding writers forever like the Medium. People will use it for their own good from now. As the bearish market continues a long time, so Steemit is facing obstacles to pay a huge amount of money at this moment. But they will recover for sure. Steemit has a high trading volume with huge crypto supporters. And they can stop paying for a while or forever.

I can advise you on the CENT https://beta.cent.co/ (https://beta.cent.co/) platform. I don’t think it looks like Steemit, but maybe it will interest you. I sometimes use this platform.

Well, it is because the cryptocurrency market is still on the bottom now.
From my knowledge, steemit is the blogging platform that focusing to make articles and the users get paid with steem cryptocurrency.
If the cryptocurrency market goes bad, then the steem coins maybe get impacted by the market.

I disagree that steemit is dead. It's being recommended by many projects and bounty hosts or organizers, and they still have alot of users who still use platform to publish article. They might not be in good condition because of the bear market . I can recommend Publish0x to you

sorry , if you make a statetement steemit is dead, you must a small riset, explain your opinion with your source. if you open the site, just see on trending post, many get with high reputation get about thousand dollars just a post the article. stemmit just a one choice beside medium, blogging etc to people for make a article and upvote for a reward for high quality content :D

I don't think it's dead there are still a lot of articles there and many active writers and if you check the various ICO bounty campaign it is still included in their campaign, it's still alive and kicking and if there is issue internally they can solve it, they have great team behind this project.

Seems, Dan said some time ago, that that something similar to steemit is developing for the EOS platform.

What do these problems of Steemit and the market as a whole have to do with its use? You used Steemit thinking about what then? The features remain the same as always, there is no reason for you to be worried. There are Golos and Alis, which are Russian and Japanese platforms respectively. If you are an investor, you should understand every current situation now if you are a sell-only speculator and look for other inputs.

I think Steemit laying 70% of its work force is trying to restructure for better services to its users, however if you are looking for alternative to Steemit you can try https://trybe.one a decentralized social network

All this blockchain social must earn money, but they don't do this. They must take money from users or put advertising for money or some other monetization schemes. Overwise they all die soon without money.

Ive checked trybe platform and they also have an amazing platform though users are still many on steemit but in due time people will look on new ones with improved and better working platform for their needs.

It's true the Steemit is struggling to survive because they couldn't reach their annual financial goal. Golos.io and Medium.com could be a better replica for Steemit. Specially Medum.com has an easy user interface, and you can easily post your content.

I totally agree with the Medium.com. Suitable as a replacement and alternative. The network is used in many projects as a convenient platform for promotions and communications.

The problem with Steam is that they promised to create a centralized platform, but in fact it turned out to be a centralized platform with an embedded token. If you are looking for alternatives, you should take a closer look at the GOLOS project. I think this is the best alternative at the moment that really works.

I stopped using Steemit when they showed that the blog platform is not as decentralized as we thought, they started banning and censor some people.

i think you may be alone in this!
any information that i want i can find on the internet elsewhere, specially on reddit which is a lot better a more popular than steemit and if i want articles there is still medium that people trust more and has much better high quality stuff worth reading.

Steemit is struggling hard to survive in bear market in my view there is no alternative for steem it in crypto space only thing is we should continue do working

I don't think steemit is already dead even they are having some trouble regarding their employees. The only one relative to steemit that I know is karma app . Karma tokens is under EOS platform and the app run like steemit it process a transaction whenever you make an activity. Almost same rewards structure to its users.  

Steemit isn't quite dead (yet) but you are right, they are struggling. I think the last updates they made on the website further contributed to its predicament. You can try out other alternatives like;
golos.io (Russian steemit)
minds.com
coins.newbium.com
medium.com (not recommended. they tend to ban accounts a lot and for no reason too)

Even if they had announced that they have some financial challenges, it is not enough to conclude that it is dead. I still use the platform and I have the coin, which I am holding. Try to make more findings to know if it affects your investments in steem. Had it been it is not yet listed, that would have been a different case, but this coin has been existing for quite some time now. We just need the team to bring up more developments.

I had used Steemit for a few months in the year 2017 and I did like it as it's platform gave opportunities to earn cryptocurrencies.
It was unique  in its own way. I don't know why Steemit couldn't make it through the bear market.
I think it should have altered the payroll structure and maintained a little in the payments.
It could have done better but it didn't and may be that's why it's going down.

Indeed steemit have potential issues on their rewarding system such as centralization of their token mechanism but steemit is still the leader & whenever we think about blockchain based social media platform then the first name which appear is the steemit. There are so many other alternative to steemit in the market with same or similar aim such as Qbao, akash, synereo, U network etc. Out of this U network looks very closer to steemit & you can know more about U network here https://u.network/

i don't think steemit is dead.  steemit came from the same developer that produced bitshares and eos.  i think the 3 sister blockchains are co-related to each other in some way and they will support each other.  for the past months, the price of steemit coins is at par with other altcoins.

To be honest, I'm amazed by what is happening as this service I know for a long time and many times I published my work on it, but as an alternative there are many other similar services as a primer, golos is no different in functionality, and there are almost as many users.

I did not know that people actually earn some bucks on steemit. I use it only for posting some blogs  or just checking others blog.
maybe i should check it now.

Most cooperation such as steam always lay off their staffs when ever they are in a financial crises instead of looking out for ways to get out of the financial bankruptcy through managerial planning because human resources is very vital to any organization, but in this case the first choice of attack whenever big cooperation run into financial crises is they staffs which is very bad.

I wonder why none of you are talking about DelegateCall?

While it may not be a Steemit alternative it at least is a quora alternative that allows you to earn crypto for your engagement.

Lol, you had better start up your own blog Blockchain payment system
Because nothing is wrong with steemit, I published on it this afternoon and why do you spread fud?
Is that some type of job around ??

to be honest, the first time I heard the opinion that this coin is dead, I thought that it has very great prospects in the future and the company in good condition does not need to draw hasty conclusions, because today 90% of good projects are very much cheaper because of the prolonged fall of the cryptocurrency.

the fact that it is rarely being talked is the reason of why most of us avoid this because there is no one who knows about it therefore resulting small amount of reasers unlike steemit.Now whats left is medium. even medium limitig strictly abouy crypto topics.

It isnt really dead actually since they havent still announce their total closure and they are still operational,so we cant really conclude that they are dead already.
Its no surprise that lots of projects is being affected with this bearish market and we have seen similar cases which isnt really surprising.Go back to the old days where steem was popular.
I cant think of for another alternative though.

Steemit is not dead. All altcoins are in deep red now because of the current crypto market. Some of them are going to disappear if Bitcoin falls lower. I don't know a better alternative to Steemit. Thoses alternatives are surely struggling a lot more as they are not in the top coins.

Steemit survival depends on cost of running the website. The  blockchain itself won't go anywhere soon. Lots of platforms still depend on the steem cryptocurrency as currency. They have social media gambling, video and picture sharing websites that are all dependent on the cryptocurrency.

To me I will personally stay clear off medium but golos.io is a perfect recommendation I will give any day any time

This is a very good platform for blogs with a large audience. Perhaps they fired the employee because the project does not need their work. No need to look for an alternative I think.

They really have a very bad situation, but I do not think that this is a reason for panic, maybe soon it will be better!

Do they really pay people to post? I don't think they do. Their model is pretty sustainable from what I know. I guess developers didn't expect a long bear market. Everyone thought that the price of cryptocurrency will continue to go up.

Yes Recently, Steemit is passing on in view of it's stage structure, it is one thing to fabricate a blockchain and another to construct an easy to use blockchain, this is the reason bitcoin appropriation will never seize on account of its effortlessness. We have to quit concentrating on simply fabricating a blockchain however assembling something that associates great with clients.

Actually it's not dead , but of course they have certain problems with financing due to the global collapse of the cryptocurrency market. I think their platform will continue to work and begin to grow rapidly when people’s interest in cryptocurrency becomes high again and asset prices will allow the company to hire more employees and expand business.
Basically, if you want, you can try another new crypto social platform called Sapien. They are working to improve their product and look quite competitive.

The issue with Steemit, is that it greatly miss the great opportunity to scale during the ICO boom, no real way the team want to generate revenue, assuming they started including ads in their platforms since 2016, do you know how much they would have generated doing so, with the number of views they have on their platform. I am not surprise they are struggling now because there is no real use for their tokens

Steemit is not dead but there is very big problem. Yes getting paid for your work is a good thing but right now for having paid on steemit you don't need good content which is killing it.

If you paid a bot you are getting Money but if you made a great article thousands of people read it but not a single steem whale upvoted it, you are not getting anything.

Steemit seems to be underperforming in the last few months, but there is high hopes that this coin would perform better, I don't think there is an alternative for this coin too, as I only knew that only steemit has this unique project. There was an ico this last few months same function with steemit it is foresting but never heard of what was happening lately.

In this current time steemit is not actually doing great because of the bearish period and its not a good idea steemit is not dead  but i suggest they restructure the system so it can work better

Steemit still works and it still lives. They have some financial problems so they have to lay off 70% of employees. But the project is still developed by their team. We will soon see steemit coming back with new plans

They fired many employees because last year was a bad year for the economy and many companies also laid off most of their employees. But steemit is still alive and well enough, it will not die at the present time because they still have enough staff to operate

Oh thanks for the info guys  .  at first i thought steemit is a legit project slash / community but now i see that they are now becoming shady based on what i read on the users experience  . once again this only shows that no one can beat bitcoin  because bitcoin and the bitcoin community  did not ever experience to have an issue even if the market is always dump  .

Steemit is not dead in the real sense. How many projects have actually had a functional product to be sincere? Steemit has. I've been publishing articles on steemit for long and still publishing and earning. Talking about laying off their staff, which proof do you have? Also, if you are looking for alternatives, I think you should try Golos or minds.

I will hope this is just a crisis time and Steemit will be able to survive it and stay with us in the future, while becoming much stronger and better for users.

Well, yes, the project is dying out today. Recently, one of my friends published an analysis of the platform. According to the top app there. Now a very large outflow of users.

When ever a company experiences hard times people are most likely very quick to right it off quickly.
Well if you searching for an alternative for steemit my best option would be medium

i dont agree with you. steemit suffers only because of the current market situation. i believe that they will keep growing when the market starts to recover a bit. and on the other hand there is no any good alternative.

Seems funny but am not sure why people are blaming steemit, steemit was built as a Decentralized network and since the whole market is in a bearish state so we cant really blame steemit because once the market start improving am sure more people can get into crypto and more users can join steemit

I thought so and understood. What basically people here use this platform for project advertising. Therefore do not receive the necessary responses. And you know that on the platform for the beginning it is necessary to log in as a user that you would be perceived as a user.

Steemit is a public blogging platform based on the blockchain that has a reward system and presently I don't believe there is any other public blogging platform that has the cryptocurrency reward system like steemit.
Medium newbium and telegraph are also blogging platforms that you can use however steemit is still the only one that gives reward.
The value of steemit rewards is actually very low right now and this is because present market value of the world coin market and this should not be too discouraging because in the bull market the value of whatever steem or steem dollars you have would increase.

I don't believe Steemit is dead as the platform is still functioning optimally. It has still remained the choice for most cryptocurrency fans and bounty hunters to publish their articles about a new or existing project.

It is a social stage where can explore with articles that I have been effectively utilizing for quite a while and I can completely say that it appears as though a portion of the calculations have been changed, beginners never again get a similar sort of minnow bolster they used to and upvotes are having significantly lesser incentive than they used to. I realize the bear showcase has assumed a major job in this however decentralized tasks that needs to disturb a specific framework shouldn't be undermined by negative bear markets.

I don't think steemit is dead. What I heard about it is that it is now quite difficult to open an account on steemit as you may be required to pay some money before the account becomes functional.

well if you have to pay to open account than it sucks trust me. Why would a newbie pay to create account. not every one is a content creator. there are content consumers too. they would rather go back to free content sources like medium.
even content creators would prefer to make a blog for free and put adsence without any cost.

It's certainly not dead. They have now lower cost & effective infrastructure, many new dApps come daily.

I am yet to find legit alternative to Steemit.

I think all coins are stuck and have low value, Steemit is like that. The market does not provide benefits so it looks Steemit is dying and experiencing a reduction in employees. There must still be a good chance to be able to change the Steemit method and later be able to get back up so there is no need to change anything.

All Cryptos are really having issues if you look at it attentively so i think is just normal and if they can maintain themselves for a time being things will surely pickup but is best to wait and see how the market pickups at the end of the day

Steemit lost its popularity. The decline in steem coins was effective. You can use Medium. For Bounty, open a blog site to get comfortable in your head.

I myself never follow a bounty of blogs and articles. I don't understand why that could happen, but for bounty I think there are still many alternatives other than steemit that could be accepted by the campaign manager.

Yes, Steemit definitely is dead. I am sure you know that the Steemit coin, STEEM, has fallen 96 percent from its all-time high and same goes with its monthly active users. You can have a look here for more details
https://steemit.com/statistics/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180516-en

The best alternative as we were talking about is SNAC - SNAC is the blockchain based reward sharing application that has a beautiful and fancy UI/UX and available for mobile iOS & Android versions. Soon will be available for Desktop and web version too.

Check out this hackernoon's article
https://hackernoon.com/snac-a-steemit-killer-3581d878211


https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1500/1*s1MsC_LS5udK6f7TkprWdQ.png (https://hackernoon.com/snac-a-steemit-killer-3581d878211)


You can download the SNAC app and try it yourself to reach any conclusion
 (https://www.futurepia.io/info/apkdownload?lang=en)

Yes no doubt Medium is far better than Steemit in case of SEO and UI/UX.

no it is not. it will make a comeback soon.

Lol, if you had tried SNAC, you won't be saying it. I hardly see Steemit anywhere in the news or website these days.

What you mean for better alternative? You need a lot of employees on the platform to post your content or what? Why you need a alternative?:) Most importaint thing of such services is traffic and customers, Steemit is an oldest one(based on blockchain i mean), right now biggest number of people/subscribers on steemit, so it is preferred choice of content makers right now i think.

many other option after steemit. such as medium or blog that publish by bounty0x
i dont always join bounty for article or blog but for me medium is better

I think if only for bounty, medium already good. Steemit will be remembered as forum that can make earning for their users. Still remember when someone that do make up tutorial get a lot of $$$ in there at first.  ;D

Publish0x is better alternative, the user experience and remarks has been encouraging, personally i would recommend publish0x to you check it out they might give you what steemit couldn't.

A company releasing 70% of her staffs is really a bad sign. That means their liquidity ration dropped drastically. It will take them time to bounce back. For substitute, i do not know any now.

Bearish market doesn't mean a company will just fold up and end just like that, there can be some sort of restructuring as to reduce cost in order to meet with the reality on ground. Steemit is alive and bubbling and will continue to grow bigger. 

As you know Steemit was wonderful plate farm for good earning but now not growing well so other some sites are not paying good you should wait for good site.

Steemit is a very good platform, currently they are one of the best platform for hunters to publish their unique article but seems the platform as not been doing well since the beginning of the bearish market and i guess this was because of steam dip.

Steemit used to be very OK from onset. What amazed me is that you can't delete a post once it's upvoted and rewarded, and operations used to be swift. But nowadays, most times when you want to post, you see steempower challenges requesting you buy some steem power. Also, too many rubbish posts on steemit, which is not entirely their fault. About steemit laying off staff, I have no idea about it. Overall, steemit has a good concept, but the management needs to be improved.

I don't think Steemit is dead, but we have for sure seen a pretty big downturn in the past couple of months.  There have been a lot of users powering down and leaving the platform.  My feed used to be filled with all kinds of new posts on a daily basis.  Now it is mostly the same bunch of people over and over again.  I don't think that is bad thing though.  It gives me less crap to sift through and I think it is also indicative of the growth of the STEEM blockchain.  That's right, I said growth.  I know that sounds the opposite of what I said above, but I think more people are finding ways to interact with the STEEM blockchain outside of Steemit.  Things like Esteem, Busy, Actifit, Steemhunt, are all new projects that have people interacting on them.  I hardly ever use Steemit to post anymore, but I use it pretty exclusively on my desktop to comment and upvote.  When I am at home I use Partiko.  I think in the end there is still a lot of development on the STEEM blockchain.  In the past the only way to access the STEEM blockchain was with Steemit.  Now there are so many other ways.  If you look at it that way then yes, in the future several years down the road, Steemit may die, but the STEEM blockchain will remain alive and well in my opinion.

Bounty0X created nice blogging platform for all cryptocurrency enthusiasts. They offer earning BNTY tokens by writing your articles, but not only that, also readers can earn here!
And another positive thing is that this platform seems to be more decentralized - I mean that they will not delete inappropriate content.  :)

Great News for everyone who were waiting for SNAC official launch.

SNAC has been launched on both Google Play and App store. You can start right away and earn cryptos. Remember one LIKE on SNAC gives you 10 tokens. (SNAC is a stable coin having worth 1 SNAC = 1 KRW)

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sigmachain.app.futurepia.messenger

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snac/id1456579418?l=ko&ls=1&mt=8

These layoffs didn't happen with steemit alone it happened to every other company due to the unending bear run of 2017-18 period. I don't think there will be better alternative to steemit in near future. Steemit has not only stood the test of time but they have also shown one can earn doing what they love most which can be blogging or travelling and sharing such experiences.

I have heard about this as Steemit is not performing that much publish0x can be another options to try out, this can be another way to earn crypto,
same deal with steemit where you will publish your article and accumulate free coins.

Yeah Publish0x also looks better for blogging. Meanwhile SNAC is a social media (an amalgamation of Facebook and Instagram) on blockchain. Rewarding content creators and consumers at the same time.

Will it be productive if they pay their employees with cryptocurrencies as well? Because by far as I know, employees on different platform chooses to have been paid through cryptos as they also know what is the benefits that they can get through investment and trading, as well as the potential of many coins in the market.

I also search for something similar to steemit, but i want to get paid on crypto. Steemit still pay? Anyone know some service like that who pay with crypto coins and try it?

Yeah SNAC is already giving cryptos for various activities e.g LIKE, VOTE, BET, Refer etc. Best part is they give you 10 SNAC for just liking a post. And since 1 SNAC = almost 1 cent, that's really a cool thing.

You can find other ways to earn cryptos on SNAC here: https://medium.com/futurepia/snac-events-complete-guide-e9d06c29a05c


https://i.imgur.com/BLqMROG.jpg

Is this coin listed in exchange i was searching for better alternative for steemit eventually i found this thread . Publish)x coins also i dint find in coinmarketcap as well as in coingecko even SNAC also couldnt able to .If these coins are listed please let me know .

Yes, Steemit Inc announced that 70% of their employees were laid-off due to the company restructuring. It is clear that there are major issues at the company. This mainly happened due to the entire cryptocurrency market downtrend. The price of STEEm has dropped more tha 90%, decereasing the overall market capitalization.
If the main moto is to write ust articles, I prefer Medium. This is one of the best platforms.ther options are Dtube, Sphere,futurepia, Sapien(I am using Sapien at the moment and the experience is really great), yours.org and so on.

I think steemit isn't dead. Steemit is still working just that its not functioning properly. Also, there are so many rubbish on steemit now which turns investors off.

SNAC is a stable coin which is worth 1 KRW. SNAC can be exchanged with PIA coins (the coin of Futurepia Blockchain where SNAC is deployed).

PIA has already successfully done the IEO on BW exchange and in next month will list there.

https://www.bw.com/ieoDetail?id=333350

Apart from just rubbish, don't you think its so difficult to use for a person who isn't familiar with blockchain and crypto currency? Serioulsy if being honest, Steemit isn't for general social media users. Also the content there is 80% of the time related to cryptocurrency making it platform for just crypto enthusiasts.

On the other hand, if you check SNAC, it allows you to create groups, form communities, get rewards for growing communities etc. There are even groups for travel, food, music, kpop, etc.

Steemit made itself too complex for regular users. It should have implemented a single coin throughout the platform rather than using multiple of coins and tokens. There are several ways to secure ones account then having several long passwords for every other task. Steemits model of taking fees with users for task was the largest blunder.

omg yeah finally someone said it. Totally agree with the complex coins & tokens system. Its one of the reasons that a normal social media user couldn't move to Steemit.

It is normal for the market to go down. They have to do it to balance their finances. Any project, any company must do so when it is difficult, not just Steemit. The market going up will make them come back stronger

The bear market really affect alot of business which brought about many project not be able to survive or maintain the ride to this level .

The steemit I know is still the best regard to social media coin in crypto space so investing in the coin will still definitely boom in near future as the king itself also feel the heat, so laying off is just a way to reduce the lost and so they will recover .

Have you tried any other alternative? Like Akasha or SNAC?

Steemit is still live but due to long bearish season of crypto market like all other top projects Steem and Seem dollar are also in bottom, But it will grow up as soon as market go in trending.

All the same, Steemit a good project. From staying there I still have good memories (now sometimes I go). I hope they will be fine and the project will be able to overcome the crisis.

I have seen a lot of projects that started the idea to launch or compete with Steemit but I am yet to see any of them emerge successful, it may take a long while because majority of them come during the bear market and might not have raised enough fund to kick of the complete social media part of the project, a good example is foresting, they have launched their pton token but the rest is yet to go into full blown action, so far I stick with Steemit, Reddit is another good one.

I agree with you, the time they laid their staff of was when most projects were still having issues due to the bear market, and I am sure that things would have been picking up for them already. I still registered someone who was interested in earning some free coins on Steemit recently and their site is working perfectly and their response to enquiries still swift.

If they were dead, would they still be in operation? Steemit has never come out to declare they are liquidating and I wonder why someone will just wish something that is not happening for them. The fact they laid of staff could just be a way off cutting cost.

Medium and Steemit were the most used blogging platform in cryptocurrency.
But now, there are many restriction in Medium about crypto, and there is nothing new in steemit as well.
I read that publish0x is the new crypto related blogging platform, you can search it.

In my opinion, steemit indeed reduces its employees but steemit isn't dead yet. Steemit still exists and still provides space for anyone to express their ideas. If we want to get an alternative from steemit then we can use ong social or create a personal web hosting address. I think making a personal web address is a more trusted thing because it is proof of our responsibility for our writing and ideas contained in the blog.

Steemit is dead because Steemit devs never had an answer to fight bots and cheaters. If a solution is found to shut down bots and cheaters Steemit can be popular.

I know Steemit is a blogging platform for crypto currencies that is very good and much to use. It's a pity if this steemit goes down because the users are getting taller and the public's trust in steemit is increasing over time. But we should not rely on steemit if indeed Steemit has internal problems that cause the employees to cut. We can look for alternative blog platforms that support crypto currencies such as blogger, ong social, and publish0x. We can try on the platform even though the steemit name is too ingrained.

If you are regular visitor to this forum then you will know that Bitcointalk community and especially bounty hunters love Publish0x platform. Very similiar to Steemit but with many upgraded functions.  :)

How did this happened? Did the CEO run with the money? Steemit was a good solution for blogging and not only...to bad... regarding the topic i don't have an alternative for steemit.

Steemit, i find a good something like that.
That name CBNT, that is almost same like steemit.
The feature steemit who will pay you is same like cmnt.
Come and chack it with your self.

I don't agree with this as am still using Steemit as they keep upgrading their platform. The truth is, Steemit is trying its best to remain relevant more than other crypto-related blogging platforms.
Nevertheless, a good alternative would be cryptocoinpravda

i have good numbers followers in steemit but i lost my account password and now i cant log in and sad to say its really tough to get back your lost steemit account.
i think medium is best alternative platform

Steemit is still very much in use especially for publishing cryptocurrency related articles. Even if it laid off most of its employees, the platform is still functional. Alternatively, try using medium.

I am not aware of this though but if you ever wanted steemit alternative, then check on golos. It is difficult to write more content on steemit of late and I think this was done to correct the massive spam contents that were written by people who have no idea of what they are doing.

SNAC even launched their Website version too.

Probably one of the 3 blokchain social media reward sharing apps that has launched its version on all the platforms - iOS, Android and website.

Website: https://snacpia.com/

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snac/id1456579418?l=ko&ls=1&mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sigmachain.app.futurepia.messenger


Now after signing up on SNAC website version, compare it with Steemit and you will realize how boring the steemit platform is :) SNAC To The Moon!

Many companies on blockchain also cut off their employees due to the huge market downturn cycle. Because to maintain the project, the projects will have to do so to survive

Yup thats the point. If companies are firing employees, it means they are doing it to SURVIVE, means that the company is going towards bankruptcy and not doing great.

in my opinion as long as people use it it will definitely stay alive, even though it is not as busy as people who use steemit,
and will be categorized as dead if it no longer operates or is no longer used.

One of the worst efforted company on public domain with large numbers of users depend of steam it earner have seen worse loss in crypto field so this is lesson for crypto investors we should concentrate on multiple projects

Steemit is alive and kicking. Laying off 70% of their employees doesnt mean they are dead. The crypto world faced a lot of challenges and most companies are trying to get their feet. Dont ever think they are dead. It's still much active and alive. In a matter of time, you will be very surprised at their recovery.

What is your favorite alternative to steemit?

Mithril is not that close to steemit. you can't compare mithril with steemit.  because it is mostly on videos and pictures and they are yet to introduce web base platform for content. the closest to steemit is golos. a Russian platform. another new content platform coming is CBNT.(creating breaking news together).

Apart from steemit, there are other platforms for content and multi media sharing that owns and pay in cryptocurrency. golos is one of them but i don;t think steemit is down and nothing will happen to it. the platform is still strong.

I'd like to dispel the myth that Steemit is dead, it has made some huge improvements the past couple of months and still has a pretty active community.
Their recent release of Mira has significantly reduced the cost of running nodes, which also means that Steemit Inc. has to spend far less to keep their operation running.

https://steemit.com/marketing/@steemitblog/mira-public-release

Then there's a newly released platform on Steemit called 3speak, which is an alternative for Youtube, and IMO is far better than Dtube ever was.
They've gotten some pretty big content creators already, who were de-platformed from Youtube and Twitter.

I don't think steemit is dead but it is getting worse and worse. I stop using them months ago.

Publis0x seems nice so far but i can't be sure about the future of it.

I still use steemit although it sucks nowadays with the numerous ads. I also recommend publishox and golos. Golos app is great, give it a try.  By the way, steemit is not dead, things just got messy with the platform.

it just becomes uninteresting to users but has not died yet. time will come and it will not exist at all

Actually I have registered in steemit since last year but I stop opening it since I don't know what's the future of the site. There are many alternatives like doing freelance jobs or investing in real estate.

Don't you use an adblocker? Why would anyone browse the internet without using an adblocker?
Just checked how Steemit.com looks without one and yeah, it's quite terrible.

Should really mention that to the core team, because those ads are indeed terribly obnoxious!


Uhm what? You talk about freelance jobs and investing, but that's not what Steem is about. It's about blogging in the first place and you can still run a successful blog on Steem.
Heck, I'm currently earning a decent living by doing just that.

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I don't mind it when people criticize Steemit, but at least write more than 1 sentence. Now it just looks like you're trying to increase your post count.
Have some discussion at least...

Steemit might not be dead but I feel sorry to write that in my view, its end is almost near.

Have you tried SNAC? Its one of the most powerful social media dapps launched by a Korean giant blockchain company Futurepia (a native EOS competitive blockchain)

When I say powerful, here is what I mean:

- Available on all the platforms: Android, iOS, Website

Google Play: http://bit.ly/30BwvsN
iOS App Store: https://apple.co/2HoJ6rW
Website: https://snacpia.io

- Users can create groups and communities

- Users can post Text stories, Photos, Videos and can even write long articles

- People can bet on content (first time this feature is introduced in any social media platform)

- People can vote for their favorite content and receive rewards for it.

- There are rewards for even LIKING a post & voting.

- You can make almost $100 for creating  a group and increasing its members upto 100

and many more...

Check out this article on HackersNoon on Why SNAC can be the next Steemit Killer


https://i.imgur.com/0NPudKI.png (https://hackernoon.com/snac-a-steemit-killer-3581d878211)

As for me steemit is a slow develpoment platform. Crypto investors are not waiting till a single plattform is ready.

So by far, seeing people's comment, here are the alternatives to Steemit that seem to be more popular among people.

a) SNAC
b) Sapien
c) Publis0x
d) Sphere
d) Dtube


What do you think is the best among these?

For me, without any doubt:

1st - SNAC

2nd - Publis0x

3rd - Sapien

Which is not a bad thing to do and the first step to take, cutting all form of expenses that may make them go bankrupt when they are having little challenges that still got the chance of being solved overtime.

This industry is one that is full of competitors, they might enjoy the monopoly when they are still the first and only one in that line, but the moment you start seeing people compete with them, it tends to reduce their power and their function, and the best would be to re-strategic which is not a day job, so there is nothing they would have done than to cut lots of expenses fist, I believe that Steemit will rise again.

Well that is your opinion . As for me Steemit is still love and vibrant. I make use of Steem it on daily basis , got no complaint , their service is quite effective compare to other platform though the bearish market burned almost platform operating on Cryptocurrency but that does not make Steemit dead. Steemit is one of my best Blogging site apart from Medium .