I just had to resteem this. You express and explain so beautifully what I feel about this community. In my short time here and right from the start I have felt welcomed. I got off YouTube and Facebook mainly because of the excessive and intrusive advertising as well as the obvious bias and censorship. But the "last straw" was the hateful trolls. I blocked so many. But I only flagged once, when a person I was following received in our thread an explicit threat of death. Twitter is now censoring and going ad crazy. Steemit was such a delight to discover. I love how it shows me what's "outside the box".
Thank you, Thyme :)