this is kind of how i feel really. I don't feel like this project blows other social media out of the water at all. Its slightly difficult for me to comment because I just don't really like social media, it all feels like hard work to me, but my feeling is that to have success as a social media platform you need to have a lot more shiny aesthetic vaccuousness, comedy, youth, and 'coolness'. The cavalry is not coming. The 'cool' people are NOT on their way.
But wait!
Who cares?
@starkerz is right that what we really want is to pull more platform developers to integrate hive in to their ecosystems and whatnot, so that we continue to fortify ourselves in the INTERNET 3.0
Forget marketing an awkward social media platform full of crypto nerds and blog geeks and just enjoy the fact that we've got a great place to hang out and be super cutting-edge UNCOOL while the new paradigm is building around us.
Its always going to be a bit clunky in a community led thingy right? Lots of argument and indecision and meandering around while the lambo's speed past us in the fast lane.....WHO CARES? This is what we are, and then suddenly you look round at leofinance and youre thinking, hold on, this is actually pretty amazing...somehow we've got a platform that is embracing the newest trends in defi, on OUR blockchain! I sure there are others but i dont bother to look around much....
Ive been here since august 2017. Its pretty much always been amusingly crap in a frustratingly promising sort of way, but Im still here. No-one else who ive ever got involved has ever stuck it out. No-one, in 4 years. I cant even convince other crypto friends to join, let alone normal social media people. Why am I still here? Because of me. It takes a very specific person to actually keep kicking around here. I don't think thats going to change very fast so honestly @ryzeonline I wouldnt bother harboring any delusions about this platform. Its the equivalent of walking in to the science club at school, seeing a few genius kids with their high IQ's giving in-depth explanations about the power of quantum to a few slightly unhappy looking kids who just wanted to play with butterflies and thinking...hmmm....this would be an EXCELLENT place for a party! Lets make posters!
My advice is just keep enjoying doing what youre doing until the moment youre not enjoying it, then stop and do something else that feels right. If you like making posters, keep making posters. But dont imagine your actually going to be helping anybody. If the cool kids ever do turn up, the geeks will probably just move to another room and change the name of the club.
deepest acceptance, effortless furtherance
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