The other day after seeing your post I went to signup for one of them and it told me I couldn't because I didn't have tokens or hadn't been invited or something, I honestly don't recall which platform but anyhow it wouldn't let me signup.

In the past I'd tried Minds and some other crypto blogging platform where you'd write a post and make it partially free and then put up a paywall. Both seemed to have little activity and just didn't strike me as being worth my time.

I oftentimes try to become an early adopter of platforms in the hopes of striking it big if they take off but having been through a few flops like VidMe and Meercat and others I'm a bit more hesitant to try new stuff.

Also Steemit already has a community and built the community during good times. It seems many people just don't care about crypto anymore so I have a feeling it may be tougher to grow a userbase today than it would have been in 2017