I find it crazy that there aren't more young people here having fun and getting in on web3 in the early days. They seem to have fallen into the trap of web2 consumer mentality, not realizing they can be owners.
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From what I understand most young folks are still stuck on tiktok, Instagram and facebook. Even on Reddit people kind of make fun of them for getting stuck to those "forever scrolling" "never satisfied" brainwash machines. Of course Reddit isn't far off and recently some of the people from the others have found out about it and chasing imaginary internet points there too but seems like most are just happy with what they get out of the other platforms with some of them chasing fame and becoming influencers while the rest just write out controversial things to possibly get fame for a few minutes.
It's a weird world out there nowadays. You'd think at least those in their thirties who were young when the internet was as wild west as decentralized networks are today would be interested to relive it again but I guess everyone busy with life.
Forever scrollers, never holders.
You are right that the older people should want a return to the old days of some sort. It is probably why on Hive the older people do pretty well, as they know the digital pirate life.
I am practically a boomer yet enjoy TikTok. You cannot argue about the success. I have no idea how, but if we could bring some of that magic here, maybe we would finally see some growth. Remember TikTok and Steemit started at roughly the same time. I know it is easy to goof on TikTok, but then again posts there with a MILLION views are no big deal...
There was another website similar to tiktok that didn't last as long, guess they doing something right this time around at least. Just wonder how quick people would move on from it if something better came along.
Dont know if you have spent any time on there, but their algorithm for sending you content that you will find interesting is 100% incredible. Makes Netflix and YouTube look like a child coded it, its worth spending an hour or two liking stuff on there just to see it work IMO.
remember when tiktok was spying globally for the Chinese? Nothing much has changed I suspect.
I am not saying TikTok/ByteDance are good. As a user that brought a couple dozen people to Steem/Hive, I am simply saying perhaps there is a lesson that Hive could learn to help stop the endless bleeding of user churn.
Yeah I know, but there is also a cost to attraction and retention, and platforms like tiktok have their ways to cover the costs. The others like FB and Google are similar.