Ever since I entered crypto, the notion of mass adoption for certain projects, including Bitcoin, has popped to my eyes constantly. However when we take facts into consideration not too many blockchains and cryptos could be labeled as mass adopted, and really heave a broad use case, or at least a palpable one. One of the few that I like, and seems to be on that track seems to be Basic Attention Token.
What abut Hive sir? Yes, Hive too. And before Hive, when we would call Steem the perfect decentralized alternative for current social media platforms, and media outlets, we were also mentioning quite often of that project getting mainstream, and mass adopted. It hasn't done that. Now most of us moved on its fork and the narrative seems to be alive.
So, what mass adoption really means to you?
In my case that would definitely mean creating accounts and the process to onboard new user to be more at hand, and if possible to also have some sort of a login system based on username and a password. It's blockchain and that would probably never be possible, but I would find that way more accessible for new users, especially for the non tech guys.
Having some sort of a way to connect Hive's account with multiple other social media/blogging accounts would also weigh quite heavy for me in this mass adoption thing. Something like cross posting automatically on the connected accounts what one posts on Hive, and if possible also the other way around would bring more exposure and generate traffic. There might be the risk of generating spam as well, and that's when my next mass adoption must kicks in.
I know that we're decentralized, that we don't censor anyone, but spam in my opinion, and harmful content should definitely be censored, and banned. There should be some sort of an algorithm, or Hive police that would maintain the platform clean, and the rewards pool looking smooth. There are flags that could be used for that but I don't see them as an option, and never saw it. They were mostly used as egoistic war tools.
If we had right from the beginning a posting limit, and some other anti spam and abuse weapons we wouldn't have haejins and bible spam comments, and so on. The way I see it, human consciousness is not yet ready to live in harmony in a community. We still need rules and regulations... community created ones of course, that shouldn't be trespassed by anyone.
We should definitely redefine what a quality post looks like, and ditch the old narrative of long=good. As much as I like blogging, and hate spam posts that I was encountering on Steemit at the beginning of 2018, I still believe that if we only stick to blogging and avoid looking at twitter type of posts as spam, we are still far from mass adoption. Mass adoption means a big pool of users and to reach that you can not rely solely on bloggers. The speed era demands accessible and easy to digest content, in high amounts for a mainstream platform of course.
With the risk of becoming annoying I will mention again that without a good mobile app we won't take anything to a mass adopted level. Have a look at facebook, insatgram and twitter. Simple but quite reliable apps give access to billions around the world to their platforms, and when billions are already too mobile to keep them connected only through a laptop, you know you need a mobile app asap. This in my opinion should have been the first project to be funded from that DHF...
Once you have an easy way to create and use a Hive account, a decentralized but responsible social media platform generating traffic, daily new users and investors keeping the buying and selling of HIVE in balance, and easy and rewarding ways for everybody to share their content, no matter what as long as not spam or abuse, on Hive, call that mass adoption.
That's what my morning view for what Hive mass adoption means, and I'm 100% sure that there will definitely be some great views from you guys as well, as long as anyone still reads my shit... so feel free to share them.
Thanks for attention,
Adrian