RE: what eos is good for that steem isn't
you're confused. individual devs and teams who wanna create platforms like steemit don't have to worry about BPs or the blockchain itself or the mainnet (unless they're BPs themselves). eos is a blockchain (or will be). you're not gonna build another blockchain from scratch (unless you're talking about sidechains which i doubt).
dpos has nothing to do with someone wanting to build platforms on top of a blockchain. assuming there's a genesis block and an established chain, anybody can start creating one.
eos has already been running a testnet for a long time (almost a year if i'm correct). if launch goes smoothly (6~7 hours from now) you have a mainnet. dan already wrote eos dawn. they're calling it a blockchain architecture. it means devs can use it as an operating system to build whatever dapps they want. dan, who wrote steem and eos, will just be one of them.
meanwhile SMTs don't even have a testnet yet. if eos mainnet actually launches it'll offer everything SMTs will (plus more). when you're talking about 'tremendous amount of work', it's actually steemit inc that needs to catch up.
but yes steem is one of my investments. it's the biggest one. i'm not overthinking (because it's nothing more than a bunch of predictions, opinions, and concerns). you're mistaken if this requires a lot of thinking.
Are talking about what will happen within next 6 moths or 1 year+? I think we maybe talking from different perspectives here. I am highly doubtfull that we have any good social-media platform on EOS within next 6 months, but I maybe wrong.
a year give or take. possibly less. dan created steemit. he's the geek behind all this. might as well be quicker. it's not the number of months that i care about. it doesn't even have to be dan. if things go well eos will provide free market solutions to a lotta things, not just social (if). btw they already have working platforms on testnet. it's not like today's their day 1.
Well, you were talking in a little longer-term than me. I'm personally powering-down alot and I think that next rally is a point to make profit by selling steem and then possibly buying back a bit. EOS will definetly be bigger than steem obviously. Here on steemit some people seem to think that this place gets taken from day 1. You could also power-down a bit to have liquid to possibly buy EOS. I'm going to spread my investments like I said before.
i already have eos. snapshot is already done. any eos as erc20 after it will be worthless.