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RE: Ridiculous MySpace Comparison: Lego Your Ego
Yeah, as I said, active users are the true advantage - but the Steem blockchain itself is just one of many Legos out there. I also think that chains won't survive if they just deliver gambling dapps, but this is, unfortunately, the first and seemingly most profitable use case. (Like porn was a huge selling factor for the internet itself)
That's why developers will focus on it first. I'm not a gambler myself, but profit-sharing on dapps is actually a huge advantage and novelty in this field. Tron has more transactions than the top 5 cryptos combined each day and yes, over 50% at the moment is also about gambling. This development won't stop there and there will be many more other and valuable content coming over the next months.
You can’t build a community based on gambling. If you already have a big community like Steem you can tolerate a bit of gambling but if it takes over your platform it’s bad news.
It provides no stickiness or commitment to the platform. Gamblers will very quickly move on to the next gambling platform.
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That's true, but I wouldn't say, that the blockchains were really looking for gambling dapp developers - it is the other way round... I'm also the content guy and prefer dapps that provide value content, but you can't blame the blockchains for developers and their work. You can't blame "the internet" for porn, memes and spam, that still are over 50% of its traffic 😉I'm also no big fan of EOS anymore and never have owned a huge bag, but for other reasons....
About the community I agree, but I wouldn't call the Steemit community "big" anymore - it has been some months ago, but now after all the troubles it remembers me more of a ghost town. Let's hope this will change, but I still think, that Justin Sun should buy Steemit and let it run on Tron - I don't have much hope that STINC will survive under the current situation and leadership.