You say "compete" but I don't mean that something high level needs to be created as a way to try to take the fight to Discord.
I only believe that A CHAT option here on Hive is a must in order to have normies feel connected from the get go. Hive needs to facilitate that network effect by it's own means.
Of course people will always use other platforms for communications but I think as long as Hive has absolutely NO CHAT option then normies and outsiders in general are going to find the whole "Join The Revolution" and "Hive is a Social platform" somewhat laughable.
The most basic things are missing here and because of that, the people that decide to commit are prominently money chasers and ones that are well versed with internet and technology already.
Clearly crypto is about money but in order for that second layer to take off (the thing that all here essentially want and believe will be where Hive shines), then the system needs to be able to attract and retain a large audience of any kind without needing external tools to just live up to the 'SOCIAL' claim.
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
Hive needs to simply retain a much larger bulk of users first without making it feel that they need to learn the tech or even download anything other than a decent Hive frontend app (which doesn't exist!!).
Just an account creation and you're in you simpleton!
Then once that influx of new users is flourishing, Hive can attract business minds and business ventures.
As is, people here think people with the ambition to "BUIDL" are either going to be OK with building something for tiny audiences.. or worse.. they're expected to actually bring their audience here and carry the burden of the ridiculously cumbersome onboarding process that is in place.
FUCK THAT!
PeakD has chat and DM. Had it for awhile. Seems to work fine.
It's a bit of mess. Some of these folks are fans of segregated cliques. It'll bite them in the ass down the road. I've grown bored of talking about how important it is to build and maintain roads between projects in order to take advantage of a shared consumer base.