RE: Leveraging Steem clones for lower development costs
I considering myself a STEEM loyalist, but my curiosity has lead to check out other platforms. I’m friends with some of the WhaleShares devs, from as far back as when WLS was just a BitShares token without a front end. I haven’t tried Smoke.io because I don’t smoke, and that seems to be a big part of the appeal. I also experimented with Sola, which I left as the Sola community seemed to value memes and reblogs more than original content [...I also got banned for a week for posting a model in lingerie. Heavens!], and most recently, @onosocial, which has been a unique approach to a DAC, and I liked that there was access to an international community [...2/3’s of the platform is Chinese]. Also, I have to admit that a fully baked iPhone app was nice, but I’ve recently made the decision to leave on principle of how their super partners team was let go. Long story, but in conclusion, in all my dabbling and looking in to other decentralized communities, Steemit remains the most rewarding and thought-through. Posting on any of these platforms takes take, which is a commodity I have little to spare, and it always comes back to me realizing it makes more sense to write thoughtful, sincere Steemit posts over several sprint posts on all the other DAC’s.
I think this is natural isn't it? There are only so many people aware of these types of platforms and many of them are going to overlap.
I don't either but bought in at the pre-ico. I am glad I did though as it is interesting to see it develop and I like the 50/50 curation.
I think this is a big part of it for me too. While some of my content could cross, I prefer to tailor for audience and with all of the rest of life going on, time is a resource I have precious little to spare.
Thanks for taking the time to comment well :)