All those silly inconvenient TRUTHS you are citing are the real big deal. When you turn on the lights, there is barely anybody here, and the ones that are, divide themselves into so many camps and cults that it's certainly not a going to be a "popular opinion" to remind some of these same camps and cults of people that most of the content is pretty uncompelling and very niche even when it is compelling.
Niches, per se aren't bad, photography equipment is a niche, but a huge market on the YouTube channels, or some niche hobby thing or niche topic, all fine, for example but the very specific niches of this hive camp or cult of personality or opinion versus the other tiny camps and cults here are counterproductive, even as the cult leaders exclaim how important their nonsense often is to all 3000 users who even bother to listen, when we should be trying to attract 3,000,000 users just to be a tiny little startup size social network, crypto based or not. 3M users for any software is sort of just barely getting started to any kind of sizeable success and we are only at like .01 percent of that.
We aren't yet giving the masses of consumers in the world a very good reason to come here, then to figure out the hurdles of the technology and blockchains and all that come with them, just to face having to participate in the kind of politics this post is even about and worry about being cancelled because of trying to exercise their personal freedoms or personal finance choices or personal expressions.
It's so damn irritating knowing everybody here is likely of advanced intelligence to even get as far as being able to see this comment, and yet I see some of the dumbest stuff happening. Like this recent "shun the people who choose to spend their earnings" tirade a few are on. Sorry but calling a spade a spade, that's counter to everything this chain is purported to be about and to general common sense, consideration of others and it's fucking stupid.
We need consumers. You are right every single time you say it again over and over all over and as much as you can.
Working on making things to expand the reasons they might come, but building it and they will come won't be enough. It's part of the package and it's a part I can work on and make stuff for, but the bigger picture is, if nobody uses my stuff to make the next Mr Beast type of mass attraction, welp, I at least practiced my code debugging skills so I can get real jobs if this doesn't work out.
Meh.
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