It’s great to see you pop up in my feed. Sounds like you’ve had a fascinating career. You’re definitely a great addition to the Steem team.
It seems that there’s a lot more marketing to be done to get greater adoption of Steem and more users to the Steemit platform. I saw a post recently that said only 1% of users hold more than 500SP. This is worrying since it means there aren’t a large number of accounts who can support new projects coming on to the platform. It could also be a sign that people aren’t sticking around long enough to help build the community and grow their SP.
I think the real challenge will be to create the community we need where people feel encouraged to stick around and grow their accounts. I was lucky to quickly find some amazing people who motivated me supported my content. But not everyone is that fortunate.
I suppose my question is how are we going to draw large numbers of new users to Steemit and then keep them here?
By connecting more people together and make them learn more about Steem. The demand will go up either way since we are moving towards 10 billion humans on Earth and that everyone is having access to the Internet. People are coming and learning more all the time. You are more in top 5% with 500 SP if you look at real human accounts. So it's not really that bad.
Users will come either way. I poured Coca-cola on two smartphones on YouTube and it drew more than 100 million clicks. People there is plenty of and they are all interesting in new innovative Technology since the phones are now the new boring after the 2016 peak. Now it's mainly software that people will find exciting. Building the new future interface that humans will use in this attention economy.
We're actually not obsessed with getting as many people to join Steemit as possible. That's a vanity metric. We're obsessed with creating a valuable network. We're obsessed with getting as many great people on the platform as possible while ensuring that this totally unique and unrivaled platform continues to perform as it should and continues to lead in innovation with respect to rewarding content creators.
The Communities product that we have made a lot of progress on (called Hivemend on the backend) is what will dramatically enhance people's ability to find great people on the platform and provide those people with more opportunities to have their valuable contributions receive the attention it deserves from the people who are interested in that information.
^^This is exactly the kind of answer I’m glad to hear! I think this attitude will ensure that that steemit can have sustainable growth and continued commitment from quality creators. So happy to catch this comment from you as well. ❤️