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RE: Busy v2.4 Release: New features that will make you love Busy.org
However, I'm very disappointed with the organic growth STEEM and steemit has had since the summer.
the question is... how many people are waiting for account activation. From my experience, a lot! This is what slows our growth.
Having some different branches of the STEEM ecosystem try out something new for the rest to observe and take notes is something that I am all for
I totally understand that. That's why I decided to also share my ideas for alternative approaches. Actually we can test multiple things at the same time.
Less than 5 million. I wish we were at 10-20m.
This is exactly why I believe so strongly in STEEM and similar blockchain projects, the opportunity to have both benefit from decentralization that enables and allows open innovation which only occurs when many small agents are allowed to create what they think is the best solution, while at the same time having a "central" standard for data that is the blockchain which all apps relate to. But that's also why I felt the urge to write in support of them trying out this approach. While I agree with your points that the best on-boarding is those that are done organically by people being excited to share STEEM with others, I still see room for both. After all, PayPal used to literally pay their first new users and did aggressive marketing saying "sign up now and get 20$ worth of credits for free!" and look where they've gotten. Similarly, many successful StartUps that managed to ScaleUp, as well as list builders, did so by clever referral programs.
Let's both allow dapps to try different ways of obtaining new users while we at the core can foster and encourage what we see as a best-practice for onboarding.
Scale-by-Pay is a VERY dangerous move.
Also it brings even more toxic traffic than referrals.
I agreed with your comment