Thanks for your very valuable insight. I like this:
" it is easier to build things when people are not thinking about money first."
I totally agree.
The thing is, we did kind of have the traffic and eyes back in those days (because of the money clearly). There were real life communities meeting up in places like Nigeria and travelling to Ghana and to connect with Steemians there. I used to watch the videos put up by the organisers. I can understand that those trips are now too expensive to put together now without the funding Steem provided when the price was at $5-6, but those communities were wholesale abandoned and left to rot immediately the price went down.
I happen to have had a glimpse of that during my early days on steem. There was a guy (and his steem) who used to host steem pageants and that's faux charity initiatives I saw past through. Monies were not put in the right places (still isn't if you ask me). We bought and sold the high. This bear wrong was an eye-opener.
There is nothing wrong with starting afresh. Instead of trying to recreate or relive the old days we can create something new--new communities.
What is really stopping us?
Honestly, I don't want to use price as an excuse. Take for example a community like clean planet/steem clean planet. I believe their goal is to provide a cleaner and healthier planet. What major campaign have they had? There are many organizations worldwide looking to invest in such initiatives, why are they not tapping into that? They could align with their members in countries where setting up a small campaign might be relatively cheap; get volunteers; creating online and offline buzz, etc. The scope is just myopic, no disrespect to the team, I don't know so much about their activities so my views might be wrong. But the fact that it's a crypto related initiative doesn't mean they should narrow their scope. There are so many projects like this that are failing or have failed not because of the price of steem but the lack of practical ideas. You don't need millions to impact your sphere positively.
Yes they are very wrong. @cleanplanet have huge plans, but they rather work in silence.
They have a Discord where you could go and tell them what you think.
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