The dApps are probably the best things we have going right now. I obviously like it, but I don't think it will reach the masses. Steemit.com, is what people talks about before STEEM and/or dApps on the STEEM-blockchain... And that's why I think we need a change.
We can't just continue to tell people that "Steemit" and "STEEM" is two different things. Most of these average people doesn't care, because they want in. They want a piece of the pie. They don't care where the money comes from, how or why the money exists. They just want it.
"It isn’t easy and we aren’t becoming millionaires, but I know people who have ate, or been educated or had medical attention taken care of Because of Steem."
That is very true. I have never dreamed of becoming a STEEM-millionaire, but who knows, right?
I have seen anything from a homeless person to an entire family getting help and support from STEEM. That's truly wonderful. I love the whole pay-it-forward mindset we have here. That mindset was here in the early days, and we still have that.. I need to believe that. But it's covered by all the greed and selfishness.
It is true that the Steem exosystem can be confusing at first, and I have had many friends and fam come and go, one even made a chunk of money, cashed and left and still hasn’t come back...but sadly for him it was a one time deal. While we are still here.
If you don’t believe in crypto then you usually fall by the wayside because they didn’t make money... but if you believe in the changes the crypto can bring and really has ready made to the world then you are here and will be here too!!
Why do you think many cryptos use Steem as an announcement platform while others use it as the platform, because of us the believers, the Steemians.
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Good point.
I am a Steemian, but that's also the point. I want to be a Steemian and not a "blogger for crypto". But the average users, the people on Facebook, Twitter etc. They are, and most likely want to be "bloggers for crypto(money)". At least when they first arrive.
We can't change their mindset before they are here. But STEEM is struggling to keep users, so whatever we have done, doesn't seem to work. Our user-retention is proof of that. So if a 50/50 split between curators and authors could fix that, I am all for it.
The curation split is not what will fix the retention level. Personnaly I am against that idea!
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I hear you, and I am skeptical about it too, but I'd rather try that than continue like this. We need something that will change the behaviour of vote-sellers and "auto"-curators. We need something that makes the curators go out there and manually curate.
50/50 seems like something that actually would have an impact on that. At least from my understanding so far.
I curate manually and I really enjoy doing it with Partiko because is convenient, easy, and fast. One of thing I hate the most is the curation trails that kill the magic of curation, and most of them don't read the posts...
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