The first time I heard about it on Facebook, someone posted a long video explaining what steemit is and how can you earn by commenting, upvoting and posting. It was I guess November, 2016 and just like others, I was pretty sure that it's one of the ponzy schemes.
In April, 2017, I resigned from the company I had been working from the last 6 years and decided to start my own online digital marketing training business. Unfortunately, that didn't work and in the month of June I was just searching "How to earn online quickly" on Youtube and found a video about steemit. This time, I didn't make any mistake and signed up immediately.
Since then, I have been an active user. I am also creating awareness among people who have been around me from couple of years and 8 or I guess 9 people have signed up already.