Gotta admit guys, didn't think I'd be posting more Steemit news again so soon. But this is so cool that it deserves a follow-up to yesterday's fabulous tidings.
Hey everyone!
It's as good as Christmas: My friend, and friend to all truth-tellers, RT's Lee Camp from Redacted Tonight has just signed up for Steemit and is waiting for his confirmation email. He is one of dozens of new indy journalists and related people who have caught onto the fact that myself, @caitlinjohnstone, Elizabeth Lea Vos from Disobedient Media (who is also awaiting confirmation), @hagoodman and others have jumped on board with Steemit and are full-steam-ahead!!
Lee obviously has a massive audience, well over a quarter million people just on Facebook alone, but the corporate platforms have been mercilessly censoring his work, as they have with all of us. So us indy journalists are fighting back by encouraging all our readers, viewers and everyone in our network to open accounts and engage with us here on Steemit going forward.
This obviously spells great things for everyone who holds SBD (Steem Dollars) and who has patiently built the foundations of this platform that we are now all enjoying.
Nope - no one paid me or told me to run around recruiting people to Steemit - I am doing it purely because having now used this platform, I truly believe it is the Facebook killer. Goodbye censorship, goodbye giving our data away for free, goodbye manipulated timelines, goodbye paid advertising, hello content that we all love and enjoy, with an equal playing field for sharing and promotion.
It was over a year ago that @an0nkn0wledge first tried to convince me to join Steemit and I foolishly didn't listen. I am kicking myself now that I didn't, as the longer people are on this platform the most voting power they accumulate to help support and raise up other people's work.
But I'm trying to make up for my lack of foresight by a) bringing as many amazing, awesome people with their own large audiences onto the platform as possible and b) making sure they advocate to their audiences to sign up to Steemit and c) talking to the established Steemit 'whales' that I am friends with and getting their support for the indy journos I'm bringing on and d) helping users through the sign-up process and best practices for introduction posts etc so they have a good leg up on the platform. To that end I have publicly offered for anyone who wants to sign up to reach out to me via Twitter DM for support. I'm no expert but I can at least make myself accessible to share with them what little I've learned so far.
So Steemians, there is some more happy news for you. Once we have got the entire indy media and whistleblowing sphere on to Steemit, then I will do what many have asked me to and ask Kim Dotcom and WikiLeaks to consider joining as well. If you want that to happen? Simply follow and upvote the posts of the indy media people I have mentioned above, and it is inevitable that the entire whistleblowing community will eventually join us here!
I see a big future ahead for this platform and want to say a huge thank you to those who finally convinced me to come here, to all the people who have followed me so far and supported my work, and to those who have been giving me tips and info to help make this work for all of us.
You rock!!!!
Oh - and I also heard you guys love pretty pictures - so here is the very pretty picture of my recent Steemit article which is now up to 20k hits, ranking on the trend map above major MSM news sites!!! Woohoo!!
(Please Note: I will post the next episode of DecipherYou in the series very soon - I had intended to do one per day but I've been a bit sidetracked with other recent developments, sorry! If you've been following the series, keep an eye out for that! And if you haven't, but are interested in our study of Snowden documents, please check out my blog for more info)
Thanks again, for everything.
Love,
Suzie
By Suzie Dawson
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