Greetings,
Nice article where you highlight the good about Blurt platform. There is a problem in all this promotion work and it is simply that people are usually lazy, an ordinary user is not very interested in working on something centralized or decentralized, he will simply be where it is most comfortable to work. The problem is that compared to platforms like Facebook, and the like, Blurt is like a monster and the learning curve can be tedious.
Many people do not know how to use Mark Down, they prefer to use an application for their cell phone rather than a website and prefer a large number of visits rather than some money that they do not know how to use anyway (taking into account that he is a person not familiar with Crypto) for that and several reasons plus 1 average person when he sees everything he has to learn decides not to invest time in this.
And there is also the issue of visits, on platforms like TikTok with relative ease you can get millions of views, while here they surely only read you a few hundred having luck. I think that in this case it would be necessary to include some view counter in the publications in order for the platform to improve in this part and be more attractive for an average user.
A solution to call many more people is to try to make collaborations with influencers that people trust so that they are in charge of disseminating the information and can prepare it intuitively so that anyone can understand it and decide to get involved.
agree with everything you're saying; it's just that you're talking about the problems to solve, which await Blurt developers to lower the entry barrier to Blurt and make the learning curve shorter.
I'm talking about changing the strategy of how we persuade people who would be willing to endure the current difficulties to join us and join our network right now. And I see the solution in the conclusions I've reached:
That people, even if they are enthusiast who can do that, don't really see a reason why they should deal with these difficulties because we don't clearly outline the differences between what they experience in the current system, where logging in is just two clicks with 'join with Google account'.
Financial incentives are no longer enough because most centralized platforms have introduced the ability to earn after meeting certain conditions.
Furthermore, the mere fact of large reach and the potential to reach a broad audience is an opportunity to generate much, much more money for creative individuals than Blurt will probably ever be able to offer through rewards.
People, seeing our platform as a place with marginal reach and poor earning prospects, simultaneously not understanding the difference between the Blurt network and an ordinary blog or a minor forum.
The key, in my opinion, is to provide as clear an explanation as possible of these differences and why this is a future-proof, decentralized solution that is better for every user in the long run.
What you're writing about is indeed the key to broader adoption, but as I mentioned at the beginning, we need enthusiasts and passionate supporters of this technology who will finance the implementation of these improvements and promote Blurt through word of mouth.
Without them, there's no point in talking about development for broader adoption because currently, we find ourselves in a closed loop where the funds for development are dwindling, and the lack of development discourages enthusiasts: unfortunately, it's a downhill slope.
So, you're right that we also need to reach influential people, but precisely with these people, we need to reach them through arguments that go beyond slogans like 'earn on content' or 'your voice matters.'