RE: The Normal internet is dying | The Steem Ecosystem is the future
The first thing that Steem needs for mainstream adoption is the same convenience that the established platforms offer - and this is very hard to achieve. Even "just" developing mobile and web apps working as smoothly as Facebook, Instagram or YouTube is a hard task and needs a team of dozens if not hundreds of talented developers.
We don't have any Steem dApps with millions of dollars of venture capital backing like those Silicon Valley start ups that could hire these developers and even if we had that, most users would still choose YouTube over Dtube if it's pre-installed on their phone/TV and Steepshot over Instagram if this is where there friends post.
What we really need is innovation, creating social media platforms that don't exist in a similar form yet and that users are dying to use, not just cloning highly successful platforms and hoping that users will sacrifice convenience and leave their established platforms for the advantages that Steem based alternatives offer - 99% of users won't, even if these platform keep fucking up like they have in the past months.
While I may agree on your development points, yes our dApps are far from what can be accomplished with a several millions budget, the main alluring point for these users is the free of censorship and overall freedom of the Blockchain. Yeah, people who use a Platform to be in touch with their friends will be hard to migrate them to Steem, but imagine if we get Alex Jones and PewDiePie to join our Blockchain and create content here, can you imagine the number of people they would bring with them?
Agreed, convinience is hard to let go, but after all, if we bring the content creators here, the masses will follow them.