RE: Nike On STEEM?
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Meanwhile, Nike's looking for a more direct way to connect with consumers,
I think they may be looking for a bigger market than 135 active users though.lol
I can't work out yet, why , SMT are gonna be this big thing, tbh.
One of the most annoying things - and a massive lost opportunity, was the likes of styxhexenhammer, and stefan moyneux, (and others....), coming and then leaving the platform..
I think maybe because of steem 'lefty ideology' BS..... but these 'big' you tubers were a Christmas present never opened.
The could have brought enough users here just by themselves if they were given the support, somehow.
(their audiences alone would increase our active users ...10x)
...I think TPTB are very out of touch with reality.
Not bashing them, just saying it as I see it...
Hey, @lucylin.
We have 136 active users, thank you very much. And they're pretty loud, too. :)
To your point, though, Nike definitely commands a larger active user base that we don't have yet for however many reasons we care to enumerate.
But if I'm dreaming big, Nike's situation is the kind of thing that gets the ball rolling, if we weren't dealing with woulda, coulda, shoulda scenarios.
I don't know what to make of SMTs either. I get Communities. I understand what they want to do with SMTs. I haven't seen the value of having hundreds of blockchains cluttering the space, a lot of them doing similar things, and now we want to go and clutter it more with STEEM-attached tokens. If the tokens we already have are any indication of how things are going to go down (which they can't be, can they?), it's going to get more cluttered, but without much boost to STEEM or the tokens themselves.
re: You Tubers
I've wondered whether or not an audience on free social media would translate here. Even if STEEM could get users onboarded quickly—are people following a YouTube channel going to pay money to get up and rolling (so they have enough RCs to do something), and then figure out ways to increase their stake, so they can keep on upvoting Youtubers content here, without doing it at $0.001 at a time ad infinitum?
Maybe? I kind of think that a lot of users follow anyone on social media because its free and its easy. If they have to stake to play, well, it's not the same.
I thought when RT joined it would grow things - but that didn't happen..
When i realized communities were still at the mercy of external down voting...it kinds dampened down the potential of them changing things, (for me).
SMT's? Yeah, I'm kinda thinking along the same lines as yourself.
The big you tubers are getting hammered, and are moving elsewhere - bitchute being the main one, i think (for non lefty).
The thing is, these big (medium) sized channels - have active supporter paying them through patroen, subscibe star, etc.
They are being actively supported.
I see no reason why they would do it here, through crypto exchange.
If fact (just thought of it) - I would see AN ATTRACTION from the independent channels (Molyneux and Styx, and a thousand others), and their followers to bypass 'traditional' payment processors by using crypto.
MY point being , there are thousands of people actively spending money to support these people - and with the right incentives for them, could bring them this side.
BUT (and this is a big 'but', I think)....
I think the motives behind this whole 'steem experiment', are not 'it they say on the tin'...and onboarding anyone that isn't left of Stalin, would be counter productive to their aims.
See my post yesterday.
I got a 100% downvote on that one, from a serial leftist...
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/the-attention-economy-is-a-flawed-leftist-theory-the-authoritarian-wolf-in-social-media-clothing
edit: ...and I just came across this post with alex jones...it would grow the platform 10 fold overnight with just him alone! , but the ideology...blah blah blah
https://steemit.com/infowars/@infowarslife/now-that-alex-jones-has-been-deplatformed-and-youtube-is-considering-removing-all-non-commercially-viable-sites-and-alex-is
Okay. I'm not familiar with any of these folks (don't watch Youtube for much more than football highlights), but if they are getting some backing via Patreon, et al, that's much closer to what's happening on STEEM than basically getting entertained for free while volunteering to be a target for YouTube ads.
Maybe there is leftist or similar ideology involved in all of this. Kind of hard to tell which way the philosophical winds are blowing at any given time. Seems like "what benefits me the most" is more the ideology, with a heaping side of intolerance for anything "I don't like, or doesn't benefit me." :)
100% disagree with this. They are very sjw, lefty (to put it mildly), leaning.