The vision is great and we have the base to capture a lot of the traffic caused by these issues. Unfortunatly we aren't ready for mass adoption yet. Onboarding is still a huge issue and people trying to sign up directly without assistance will get left waiting and frustrated. The majority of users earn little to nothing on any social media so we need to get that mentality of earning a fortune here out of people's heads when they join. Any earnings are a bonus not an expectation.
Our main selling point is the freedom we have here. The freedom of speech, freedom of choice and a wide range of apps on which to do so. I also think we will see a lot more apps in the next year which will be vital to creating a strong and vibrant ecosystem. What we need to do is spread the word and start bringing in the people. We need to guide those people and help them get settled so that they stay for the long haul.
We could also do with self contained apps that people can join through and focus on without touching the rest of the ecosystem first. Once they have an app they love and use natural curiosity will lead them to explore what else they can do on the chain.
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I think the trend is for communities to produce specialised STEEM front-ends that attract a userbase in of their own right. At first these are alternative-views-to-ALL-of-Steem, then we have the content production/consumption based front-ends, next we might have interest communities forming their own specialised front-ends. We're at a critical and exciting time for the STEEM ecosystem.
It is setting up to be a big year alright. Let's just hope that everything moves the way that we want it to. The first issue will be to fix the onboarding process as we are going nowhere until that happens. Probably done through the individual apps.
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