Competition Makes Everything Better
Competition is a great motivator and when there is competition it tends to improve both teams.
Many people seem to be failing to notice that Steem is trading well above where it was when the Tron/Justin rumors hit crypto. There are a lot of reasons for that but one of them is just plain attention. As the battle broke out a lot of people started talking about the project, people who had become bored and barely participated woke up. Many people started talking about preferences.
We were trading at about .11 or .12 USD with one token when this all broke out. Now both tokens are well above that price. The battle got people's attention both on and off the platform and many people were saying our name.
No one wants to hear it, but so far this split has been a win, both sides are currently winning.
Each side should also size up the competition and decide what strengths to work on in order to keep the competition going.
One easy win for the Steem side is the ability to curate content and create distribution. On the Hive side we know many of the stakeholder view rewarding content as divesting their interests in the platform.
I don't think there are any such concerns on the Steem side now, so we need to make rewards rain on people. The more people have a meaningful vote the better.
This is why I love the efforts by SteemIt Inc to empower curators. I'm not worried about whether or not they upvote my favorite content, because the first phase should be trying to create as many people of diverse backgrounds and interest with a meaningful vote. We do this by distributing the the stake with our votes. Also, we should encourage people to self upvote once a day as a means of encouraging holding.
If we have 100k users with a meaningful vote, we can't help but to grow. People will come and all types of content will be rewarded.. Funny, Quality and yes, sometimes a complete shit show.
STEEM's Strengths:
Ability to distribute stake to users
Ability to focus on the community, because we don't have a lot of development activity right now.
Resources for promotion
Right now we should be competing to the end-users our ability to comfortably reward and engage with the community will only grow as those who are committed to trying to take down Steem on their way out continue their powerdowns.
For now Hive is going to win in the battle of idealism and also development, but I've always thought the path to success was a great distribution of people who can give a meaningful vote and gaining end users.
Hive's Strengths:
Development, organization and PR
I've been really busy, so my engagement levels are down, but I really hope to see more engagement, more votes and a welcoming committee,
Let's do this... Two platforms with their own set of strengths and ideals is a double win for everyone.
Get out there and vote to keep our user base, many of whom don't care about blockchain and centralization, they just want to earn a bit on their content.
End-users equal investors and price.
Steem and Hive are stronger together.
I agree with basically all of this, and your point is right that Hive is dominating in PR, but that is also very surprising and confusing to me.
First, those same folks were on Steem for three or four years, and many of them never seemed to make any substantial effort (with a handful of exceptions) at promoting Steem outside the chain.
Second, when JS came in, he was rumored to be some sort of marketing genius, but (so far?) I just haven't seen it (off-chain... what they've been doing w/ 100 days of Steem on-chain has been great.)
I guess the sudden improvement in PR by the exiters could be partly due to a learning curve and partly explained by the fact that they perceived a new threat, but I'm really puzzled about why no one has been telling Steem's version of the story to the rest of the world.
I agree. I think with the lash back being so powerful from the Hive side and the Smear Campaign it is a difficult thing to hold an unpopular opinion.
There are not that many people willing to stand up to the level of insults, misinformation and passion.
Anger is a powerful emotion and those who aren't angry are just letting things settle out and being quiet.
Competition, 'in part' should be a big determining factor as to what platform becomes most attractive to 'new' and older members as well.
If Steemit becomes more 'user' friendly and benevolent than previously, under different 'rulers' and Hive continues on in the same way they ran Steemit before leaving, then I would expect more growth within the platform that appears 'less' oppressive and greedy.
My plan, for the moment, is to use 'both' platforms for similar activity, then focus mostly upon the platform which seems 'most' user friendly and appreciative. This goes for any investment in the respective coin/token as well; whether 'on' or 'off' site :>)
It 'also' will determine how I might represent my thoughts about each, to the general public, off-line as well as 'online' through other sources. Negativity spreads like wildfire between people online. One disheartened individual can easily spread bad publicity to ten other people, who in turn spread it to another ten, and on-and-on it goes...till there are hundreds of thousands holding the same view, whether founded or not.
I couldn't agree more. I see the same too.
Perhaps we should have this tag all over steem,hive and twitter etc.. #SteemandHivearestrongertogether
That's a great tag!
but I'm not sure about if it will get great reaction too..
Great post, we need more diversity in upvotes, not all going to the same group of people. Also I think we could do with more comments.
Yes, and I've been being a slacker with comments.
Competition drives some of the greatest companies in the world.
That's what decentralisation is about, it also opens up space for different dapps to build without being marginalised by others and that's what it's about. the blogging app was just one use of the chain, eventually, the chains will find different niches. Additionally, I think STEEM will eventually be ported to TRON the way they did with dLIVE and its lino blockchain
That could totally end up happening.
And while I am glad that the tech is saved by Hive, I also that that would be interesting as well.
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