RE: Steem is the long wait, the big grind and what not.
Yep, you're so right, it's all not that easy. How do you communicate the benefits of Steem to new potential users?
Censorship-resistance? If you happen not to be in China or Turkey or in another country that bans traditional social media, this may not be a relevant argument (even there it may not as long as people are using Steemconnect).
Make money by posting? How much money can you actually make? With what kind of content? As long as short-living content proportionally makes better rewards than evergreen content, who will put a lot of work into crafting great posts that generate long-term value?
So, on top of unclear benefits we ask people to wait for their account being created, deal with private keys and buy weird "tokens" and "stake" them before they can really do anything. Why aren't there more users?? :-D
I really like and appreciate Steem and the ecosystem, but unless there's a killer app that draws a lot of users from the outside, chances that STEEM has an overproportional run are rather slim.
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Thanks for your nice comment.
I'm thinking, maybe it's not even about explaining the benefits at first, maybe it's just in building super user-friendly apps that you can use with one account name and key that people (and their friends/family) want to use.
The other benefits will follow naturally. Things like Digital ownership of goods (@steemmonsters), censorship resistance, a currency you can send between accounts within 3 seconds and tens of other reasons.
Yeah, combine that with simple and secure handling of keys and you've got it. What kind of thing would this be? A simple Twitter? A new Periscope to share moments? Ideally it would benefit from the fact that users can curate with their stake...
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