Steemit is indeed the gateway to the world of digital currency and plays this role more than any social platform that has existed.
Steemit can't be compare to other social network, I can categories steemit as an office or working place, we're you labour, work hard and at the end of the day or week or month you get your reward(paid as you work).
Steemit is now the worlds top list on social networks, those people I invited some month ago that they refused to join then, has come back to me asking questions on how to join.