RE: A question of/for the community on advertising rival platforms
I do not buy the idea though of whales and other big fishes acting as front men and hype men for steemit competition. This is not MySpace and facebook. There is money involved here. There is a cryptocurrency whose worth is based on the trust of the community it was built around. It is dangerous stuff.
Yet again, this whole thing has always been and will always be about money, let's not deceive ourselves. This is not facebook, this is a money making enterprise. I am therefore not surprised that the competition is also getting attention from steemit users. People want to make more money. It is that simple. When the system seem to strangle the opportunity, they will spread their tentacles elsewhere.
Loyalty does not come to play because despite what we say about community, interaction, building relationships and so on, these connections are in most cases superficial. How many of us are hanging out outside steemit? How many friendships have evolved to business connections, family relationships? How many even show up for meet-ups?
Steemit Inc on the other hand, has not seen it fit to interact with the users of its product. There is no customer care service to cater to those who tire and fall off on the way side. It is one thing to get a customer to use your product, it is another thing to keep them coming back to the product. Well because the product pays users, what the heck, right?
Steemit has been having it good because there was no competition and as a result the things that needed fixing were being ignored. The grass may not be greener on the other side but it is said that the taste of the pudding is in the eating. People will migrate as newer and more hyped models of steemit pop up but it will not be the hype that will keep people using these new blogs but the quality of service, the speed of delivery, the return in investment, opportunity for content creators to grow and customer service.
I believe strongly in the vision of steemit but sometimes I wonder if there creators even remember what the vision behind the steem blockchain was.
Some people have not found homes here. I do not know about the big names in steemit. I don't know any whale personally or witnesses so I can't speak for those of them who are preaching for the competition except financial gain but I know lots of people here on steemit who, despite their content being great, are struggling to get upvotes and comments on their posts. It is about money too, yes but they are also frustrated with the system. Can you fault them for seeking an alternative even if it is not as it is been hyped out to be?
I can understand the people struggling... the problem is that the people doing the advertising are not, they are among the highest rewarded earners on the platform, whales made solely on the back of Steem. They ar the people who could make a difference here but, haven't. These people are members of the community who have been heavily supported to be the faces of Steemit yet, they are the ones advertising the competition. Poorly chosen representatives perhaps.
Corruption is a disease that has become an epidemic. It has since grafted into the human gene, if I can use that analogy.
These whales touting the awesomness of these new platforms will go there and replicate their actions over there. They will build castles and lock themselves in like dragons admiring their gold. This cannot be avoided. The leopard will not change its spots.
It is now up to steemit Inc to step up their game. I say this because the nature of steemit allows this kind of advertisement. There are no rules. The only thing that can save the situation is for the company to look into ways to shore up the foundation of this platform to it would not be used as an analogy or a byword like MySpace is used today.
The truth is people will go after a new thing because it is new but they will stay if it caters to their desires. People came to steemit for the same reasons, now it is up to steemit Inc to make them stay.
Again, some of the whales are investors in these blogs and their reasons may stem from greed to disatisfaction with the system. There are those who think the steemit platform has failed and they have gone to invest in a vision of what a cryptocurrency blog should look like. Whether they are a reason for the supposed failure of the system is not their concern and it is open for conjecture.
Can they be stopped from advertising cryptocurrencies? For I see bitcoin posts, etherum posts, posts on airdrop of unknown coins everyday. Are these coins not competing with steem? Again, the proliferation of crypto based applications and blogs, is it not to the benefit of the cryptocurrency market as well as its eligibility as a financial instrument.
These I feel are some of the thoughts that come to mind. Yet, I do not approve of whales advertising social media modelled after steemit on the steemit platform. It is totally wrong. That is poaching, plain and simple. Steemit Inc is silent yet again.
Sure you can not talk about me as I have not seen whales support here nor I am and ever been supported by anyone to be a steemit face nor anything like that. I am not a trending guy even if i boost posts I do not come there.
The advertising I do for ONO is because I am convinced about the concept. And advertising is anyway the wrong expression, it is education about other options. For the rest check my reply below or my posts in general if you do not trust what I say.
No, There are many people advertising it.
I don't think anyone making the move or promoting ONO is planning to dump steemit. Many of us will be dualing and will be able to see the differences. In the event they don't live up to their hype there is no loss. Not like people are planning to just copy and paste from one to the other. Many of us are on Sola and what is posted is 100% different and original.
What does Steemit have to worry about? Where is your fear coming from?