RE: Where Is Everyone? Like For real? 👻
It is interesting for sure and between DTube, Steem, Blurt, and HIVE the community got fractured up so much that it lost it's momentum. Justin Sunn didn't seem to keep pushing Steemit because before there were ads for the Tron ecosystem stuff and also we were earning Tron in our accounts which was nice. Then it was kind of like they went away from pushing all that. The DAO isn't being used here for the most part and there are millions in it that could be used to market and pay developers.
Then it isn't being marketed and word of mouth isn't enough to get that magic back for the most part.
The Arena has captured a bit of the magic we saw on Steemit in 2017 / 2018. Their stages and the ability to tip in them is fun and an X factor but they are going to have to move fast otherwise it won't get to Steem levels. There were over a million wallets here and HIVE ultimately ended up a 2.5 Million wallets. Steemit had mainstream escape velocity in 2017 but fumbled. It's sad but there is a big lesson there.
I entirely blame the ppl who went over and begun hive: I’ve said a few times now I was invited to a private chat room with some of the leaders of ocd and they were disgusting. They actively laughed at newbies and for fun decided how to take them to rep 0 and run them off the platform
Then in public would pretend to be all nicey nice. I blame them entirely they ran so many good creatives off the platform with their pathetic downvoting and control. Had they not been so childish it would prob be huge by now. I don’t know Justin sun but knowing them I can imagine why he had to go hard at them. I’m sure they tried to pull their tricks on him too but he is way above them so they couldn’t. I wish I kept my tron for sure!
Their behaviour was so counter productive I actually have thought for a while it was nothing mot than a government Experiment to see how ppl would take to extreme control on social media. Interestingly the chat group used to be run by an account called illuminaughty or something similar. Something was wildly off with it.
I’ve still not fully understood the arena and can’t quite work it out