What If Steemit Stayed a Niche
Hey DTube fam! What if Steemit never sees mass adaption.
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Well, I think SOMETHING will happen. How's THAT for barely adequate, full-on ambivalent bum coverage?! I do think it may stay a niche, at least the social side, and if so, is OK with me. As you say, it would be nice to grow in value and size, but as long as we're enjoying creativity, and making stuff up and laughing about the end results, making great friends all over the world, and all the while keeping me off the streets at night, "is OK with me". I know Steemit has added a huge, wonderful new dimension to my life. No more watching too much F-Troop and Andy of Mayberry on ME tv at all hours. NOW I just stay up way too far into the wane moments of the morn, eating dry cereal out of the box, processing photos and writing, all the while chatting up the birds out the "office" window as they arise with the new dawn. Ah, the small joys of the creative, Steemit life. Plus, I can ride my bike all over town, taking pictures for stories. What fun was had by all.
Thanks for the thoughts on the world of Steemit, and for being the great Steem-meister that you are, and also for entertaining the heck out of me with more Ben/OGP pop can dynamicies and other antics of the Northern life. Crack me up. Well, here's to cheers on a nice Saturday in whatever month this is.
Oh yeah I think I know what you mean as I type this at 4:25 AM lol. I swear I need to stop sleep posting lol. Totally agree.
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i absolutely believe it will stay a niche, i think max we might end up with say 5k/10k of users. but we just don't have the services and allure that other non crypto platform have, they have first move advantage with interfaces and existing scaling, this notion that SMT will save STEEM is kinda over blown i think -- i'd say keep an eye on what happens to telegram and their $1.7 billion token just got blocked. Most of these big startups will just roll out their own BaaS (blockchain as a service) to cater for the 'token' need -- i fully expect epic/fortnite to have a gaming token too at some point. Steem will not be it.
Why wouldn't an SMT be able to cater to the needs of gaming sites? It's a lot cheaper to adopt an already existing turnkey solution that can be tailored to the needs of the website rather than do all the development oneself from the ground up.
Yeah SMT would have been amazing a couple of years ago. Now its just meh as you could tell in the price of steem since the announcement.
There certainly exists little in terms of hype now. That could change if SMTs see a lot of adoption by websites.
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There's a lot to unpack here. First of all, what does mass adoption mean? The total number of users of all Steem apps is around 10k. That's literally nothing. Steem would still be niche if it had a total of 10 million users. At that point, however, it would be a totally different kind of platform.
Steemit, the app, is unlikely to attain mass adoption as it is now. It looks crude and simple like 2004 Facebook. I think the idea is to introduce the SMT protocol and all the tools to websites with already existing communities as a way to monetize and/or gamify their user experience. Take Steem to people where they are instead of bringing them over to Steemi(it) and integrate them with our existing user base directly. It's very difficult to foresee how successful that will be because there are so many different kinds of websites and communities out there with vastly differing needs. What SMTs aim to be is a turnkey solution that can be offered to website owners without them having to do a lot of software development on their own to create a token system. I'm guessing there are lots of small sites that could see it as a game changer that could be interested in adopting STEEM if it offered to them at a reasonably low price and hassle.
True. I am not sure 10 million active users are in our future anytime.
We will see and time will tell about the success of SMTs. I wonder now if communities should have been done first. I am sure Ned was not doing to invest time/money into Steemit when he had Destiny already planned.
I may be called a Kool Aid drinker but I still thing Voice has a better shot a mass adoption.
I do much appreciate your thoughts and your well reasoned responses.
It's difficult to imagine now. I imagine the block sizes should be enlarged. I think the current maximum is something like 64k.
Destiny seems to be dead and buried now. The BTC and alt capitulation a year ago seems to have done it in. I haven't heard a peep about it since. Bernie gave Ned an earful when he announced Destiny would be developed.
Could be. But I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing because if Voice becomes really popular, the advantages of blockchain based social media will be touted by every horn.
Thanks.
You are so right with this comment, @markkujantunen The craptastical look is one of many reasons I stopped using steemit over one year ago and switched to dApps that PAY with upvotes and look so much better. It's quite amazing they do not update the interface when literally 1M people off the street could do it for cheap and in less than a week.
Without changing much in the way of functionality, things like the layout and the CSS could be touched up very inexpensively.
Not all of the other front ends host their own RPC nodes (back end servers you can use to query the blockchain and post transactions). Some do. But Steemit runs those that have the most traffic.
I'm clueless.....
... .but there it is ! :)
This isn't playing for me. Your title sounds like and interesting idea though.