RE: Arsenic Lullaby- hello, is this thing on?
I agree with most of what you said. The search function on here is useless. Even on DTube, I can't find anything that interests me. Why would I go to DTube when I can just go to YouTube, where I can find hours of video that suits my interests.
All of this hardfork stuff is way over my head and like you, I'm just looking for a platform that is fun to use, which should be the #1 priority. I don't want to be inundated with endless posts about crypto currency.
I do slightly disagree with your assessment that steem lives or dies based on Steemit. That might have been the case when it first started but with new Dapps constantly being developped and introduced each day, Steemit becomes less and less relevant each week. More and more people are joining the steem blockchain through Dapps other than Steemit.
As you say though, the site has to work properly first and have content that appeals to a wide audience, not just crypto heads.
Very funny comic strip, by the way! Nice twist added to the vintage comic strip ad. I usually upvote your stuff but apparently with this latest update, it's been depleting everyone's voting power with a single vote. I guess it's supposed to be fixed in a couple of days.
I'll admit to your points of Dapps being over my head, since I only have a vaugue idea of what a blockchain is. as you said "I'm just looking for a platform that is fun to use" But if you can explain it to me slowly...I'll listen (it's not like I can spend my time voting on anything right now, LOL)
#comics
I'm in the same boat as you. I couldn't explain the blockchain to save my life. However, I do know enough to say that there are dozens and dozens of developers creating new Dapps (decentralized apps) every day that use the steem blockchain that Steemit is built upon. That means posts on those apps earn steem from upvotes just like on Steemit without even having to use Steemit.
Heck, even when I want to blog about something, I don't even use Steemit anymore. I prefer to use busy.org or @steempeak which are much more user friendly and mirror everything on Steemit.
I've already mentioned @Dtube and once that dapp improves and more video content creators join it, it would be a good alternative to YouTube.
There are also alternatives to Instagram (@Steepshot), Kickstarter (@Fundition), Soundcloud (@dsound) and Ebay (@steembay) to name a very few.
All of these can be used without ever using or visiting Steemit and use steem the same way. Granted, they are all in the early stages, so mass adoption is still a ways off but these are all evidence that steem is attracting developers and inspiring them to create decentralized apps of all kinds that don't need to be about blogging.
I can't even keep up with all the new Dapps. Some will come and go but I see a lot of innovative ones come out all the time and this can only help steem.