https://www.coindesk.com/block-one-is-launching-a-social-media-platform-on-the-eos-blockchain
If you watched Brandon's keynote speech introducing Voice a few things stood out to me.
I want to be clear this is marketing and one should never compare another product's marketing to your knowledge of your product's weaknesses, so I am only talking about marketing.
There was no long-winded rambling about Libertarian Values.
There was no tech talk.
There was no promise of Getting Rich Quickly
They spoke specifically to mainstream users. (you know those two billion people I've been begging us to talk to)
They spoke to the hot topic issues, privacy, data, agendas and ads.
They spent very little time of technical issues, difficult math information, libertarian values or decentralization.
Now there are plenty of things for crypto people to react to, but let's remember they reached right past the tiny crypto community to talk to the mainstream. They realize whoever onboards mainstream wins.
Our Own Past - When We Had a Thriving Community
The reason SteemMonsters and other apps are so successful is our ever-shrinking community.
Bring people here and they will earn Steem, give them fun things to do, products to buy, contests and they will spend Steem. When we get enough of them the economy grows.
Imagine onboarding, training and yes, rewarding content...
We have an Inflation Pool for a reason and part of it is rewarding our end users did not bring down the price our Stakeholders selling did.
Crypto has tons of projects with dapps and no users.
While my heart lies with what Steem could be - you better be sure I will be checking out "Voice".
This is why we need to stop talking about our internal issues and focus on Vision, Messaging, Marketing and Onboarding. No one wants to join a losing team, everyone wants to join a winning team.
We need to create Trust, loyalty, confidence, teamwork and a feeling of success. Those things have to be cultivated.
No one cares about our Internal Math, but our Internal People. We could still turn this around, but frankly, our recent conversations are not going to accomplish that. If you are honest with yourself you know it too.
Edited to add... The reason I think Dan is adding this to EOS and getting support from Block.one is because they realize how valuable having a community in one place to communicate too was to the success of Steem and something most other app based blockchains are missing.
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