RE: Lesson For Web3: X Moving Closer To The "Everything App"
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Of course it's wise to include a wallet of sorts (easy access to your money) on a network where people will spend billions annually on entertainment. They'll spend more. And it won't just be video. That's simply an addition; an option. Long video, short video, streaming video. Something for everyone = they'll spend more.
All he's doing is corralling all consumers into one profitable pool.
Hive's been doing all that for years. Working to provide something for everyone.
Struggles heavily with the "corralling all consumers into one profitable pool" part though. The connections are never clear and some even put roadblocks in the way. For example I'm potentially penalized as a consumer for using Peakd rather than Leo frontend. So if I turn around and go to leo frontend, I'm then penalized as a consumer due to the limited options available when it comes to content once I leave this post. Or if I sign on to 3speak as a consumer because I saw a music video on Twitter hosted on 3speak, I might spend 6 months on 3speak browsing before I even find out PeakD exists, and Peakd is where I would have found out about Arcadecolony or Holozing or that interesting post on LEO. It's next to impossible for a consumer to spill over onto something else.
Hive has plenty to offer with more on the way, but very few seem interested in filling or pulling from that one single pool I speak of.
Drives me nuts lol. Soon enough it'll be the ten year anniversary of me saying these same damn things.
That is certainly true. But then a large part of that is the total is so small and there is so little truly offered in terms of development. Each app has a few features it offers but nothing is what I would call robust. Then we have the compounding that nothing is mentioned in terms of cross promotion. Splinterlands was the epitome of this when they were signing up thousands for the game yet never mentioned anything about Hive or the other apps. I am not even sure they promoted splinterlalk to those newer people.
The game eventually brought eyes over to Peakd but that booming period was a missed opportunity. Their announcement posts got a lot of views but there's a strong chance those people didn't realize they had an account to the site they were visiting.
Their governance posts encouraged people to engage. Came with a bad side effect however since to an outsider some of those debates were where they found out about the game. You want promotional material trending and internal memos and debates accessible but off to the side. Some crossed wires there at times.
Threads is neat. My following has no clue if and when I post there. My posts would get hundreds of views across all frontends. That's a lot of potential eyes hitting Threads but there's a wall in the way. I didn't put it there. So I only get the small portion of LEO views and LEO misses out on tapping into all these other markets people made for themselves.
I understand the need to be competitive but it's not "friendly competition."
Friendly competition is like a hockey team. Every forward wants to score the most goals but if they don't pass the puck to their linemates, the whole team loses.
At times you'll even see fans of splinterlands or something else come and shit on Hive saying if it wasn't for them this place would be nothing, or something along those lines. Not even realizing their bad attitude could be the first time someone else hears about the game or product and that bad attitude just contributed to a missed sale of sorts. Can't control that of course but it just shows it's not just the scattered apps missing the mark. It then creates a culture of unfriendly competition.
This trend will obviously continue since it's been going on for years with no signs of slowing down. Referring to that pool again, when you got moving water is stays fresh. The water here is going stagnant. And it's not because everything sucks. It's just not working together, or flowing.