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  1. Steemit icon

    Steemit

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    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    Comments about Steemit as an Alternative to Facebook
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    SteemIt an exciting new decentralized blockchain-based platform, but currently is still in beta and doesn’t offer a comparable feature set at present. It’s more akin to a blogging platform like Medium.

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    Content creators are paid for their actions.

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    • Most users think Steemit is a great Facebook alternative.

    • Steemit is Free and Open SourceFacebook is Free and Proprietary
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    Ecency

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    Ecency is a Decentralized, opensource, rewarding, communities, non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting and content is rewarded with cryptocurrencies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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