Lets talk numbers for a minute. There are less than 2,000 people on steem that have over 1000SP if i recall correctly. These people are not connected to each other in any way, therefore their collective power is weak. These stakeholders also have no mission statement. Together though, they can have a tremendous power, PROVIDED, they have the right goals.
So the first thing we need to do is to understand what our mission statement as stakeholders are.
Is marketing the most important thing? Is it the privatization of steem nodes? is it market and outreach? Is it to front end development? All of the above (in which case, we need to prioritize).
My personal opinion is to take a step one step further back. I dont know if I am the only one, but what problem steem is trying to solve? @ned spoke about steemit inc's ultimate goal to be providing access to cryptocurrency. If that is the case, than how does steemit attempt to solve that?
Obviously, we should work on everything else.
I am still unclear what problem steem is attempting to solve. I sometimes think steem is trying to create a problem to solve. So to me, that is the root question that we need to build our mission statement around.
Right now there are #7153 accounts with a 1000 SP or more.
If he wants crypto to get in the hands as many people easy on-boarding is a must. If the people can't join, how are you going to distribute it?
Another problem is the cost of the blockchain. It's way too high. They are working on this aspect right now I think. Not sure though, we need a new update first.
@exyle, i think we are in a rut thats deeper than onboarding. I think distribution, while extremely important is plagued with it's own problems. There is still no driving factor for someone to be on steemit.
I often refer back to facebook, why did people join FB, or instagram? its all about connecting and sharing information, and that really didn't take off until people were able to realign themselves within the platform through facebook groups. And for instagram, it was categorization through hashtags.
I'd like to see more accounts on here, but even creating an account is difficult. Thats the first barrier. Account creation, and passwords!