Good post.
It's nice to dream, but I'm not sure finding the right influencer is a good goal. Top influencers will arrive when their followers get here. Maybe we should focus on recruiting creators who are now working their tails off on Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter to gain enough followers to siphon traffic to their web properties and monetize it. If they can see the monetization benefits, the data ownership benefits, and all the other benefits, then they'll migrate here. When enough of them move over, the top influencers will move over.
BTW, what is this Swarm thing? I'm not familiar with that.
I think that's backwards for me, because it's always been...Tastemakers that drive the masses to things. Like a DJ playing a new record on radio a few decades ago...The masses then jumped on something because it was put out there.
CTP Swarm is our tribe and token :)
!CTP
I think there are aspects of both. Twitter became popular which is why influences (a term that didn't exist or wasn't widely used then) went there. This in turn brought even more people. In other words, it will be hard to convince influences to come here until a certain critical mass is achieved. Then you won't have to convince them. Maybe the process can be short circuited by finding a couple of early adopter influences but that will be a tough road.
Yes, but have you noticed that the best DJs end up at the biggest radio stations? Why is that? It's because they started out small and gained a reputation. Once they had their reputation, they went to a larger venue where they could influence more people to listen to the right kind of music. Moving to a smaller venue would be a downgrade for them. What you want are the smaller DJs who haven't built up their reputation yet so that Web3 social media is an upgrade for them.