RE: People forget the steem roots -- and I'm not kidding. Steem $3.50/steem is easily done again
Some time around 2004 or 2005, I was a night-time graduate student. Since I attended part time and at nights, I barely knew any of my classmates. At the time, facebook was only available to people with a college e-mail address. I got an invitation, checked it out for a couple days, and lost interest when I realized that there was no one there that I knew. I stopped signing in and just about forgot all about it.
Around 2008, facebook was open to the public, and I got another invitation. I had lost my original e-mail account, so I created a new one and signed in. This time, I signed in and saw people from my family and my high school and my undergrad college class. I still use that account today.
My point is, it's not just the content and the rewards. Maybe it's not even primarily the content and the rewards. If other people are like me, what matters may be having people that they know here to greet them.
Not sure how you solve that problem, since there's a chicken and egg dynamic to it, but I'm not sure how much anything else matters if you don't get past some threshold of user "familiarity".
Agree to this. The key thing for the Steem platform is still the social element. It will be great if we have all our families and friends also on this platform.
Content is secondary. Because we have different Steem dApps catering for different use cases. People can post junks for all they like on dMania but there are also dApps that are meant for quality stuff.
I am hoping HF20 will bring more leisure users onboard when account creation is easier.
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