As much as I love Bitcoin Cashers, we really need incentives for the mainstream to adopt tech like Memo, so that it's not just a BCH-ingroup. Pay-to-post is still a hard sell when other platforms are free.
May be the message would be "get paid for quality posts and interesting conversations"
Even with shitty Twitter censoring users, we need to gather more than BCH users here to form a rich, diverse reading landscape, to communicate to a wider range of people.
I should have written that better: Even with the unbelievable amount of censorship and shadowbanning, socially, many people have incentive to still use it.
The EU passed a measure to require websites to filter uploads. This even affects gab.ai and 4chan. Memo could become a refuge for anti-EU folks in Europe very quickly.
Fortunately memo's not a sandbox like 4chan or walled garden like FB. You choose your feed not an algorithm that's decided for you or the entire worlds detritus poured out on one feed.
How do i embedd a pic ToT. Noone coming ovee till they can embed pics. I think it needs memo enchancement suite right now?
Think about why you use Twitter: I don't go there to hang out only with people I already know, right? I go there to discuss and learn, with people outside my sphere too.
I think people will join memo when twitter censorship drives a famous person to start posting here. Then indie media outlets will start covering what they're posting and it'll snowball
So maybe we should recruit someone. Kanye?😜Gotta be somebody inventive enough. Sell it as "Don't you want to be the first celebrity cypherpunk to buck the establishment?"
I would love that, but someone needs to give Memo a makeover to make it millenial friendly before the Kims & Kanyes and Instagirls and celebs come to the yard.
The biggest complaint I've gotten so far is "Why would i pay to use social media?" We need a faucet for early users to start out with. Right now you can't make a post without any BCH.
We need to remind normal people we are a bunch of cryptonerds just sitting on lil bits of magical internet money to give people. Strangers are often amazed cos its not the norm.
"Why would I want to get paid to use social media?"
When the front page after signing up on Memo effectively says "You need money to make your first post!" It's not very welcoming. Even if you earn more than you spend.
I agree that's a hurdle, but the trick is getting people to jump it on their own. Worded correctly, that sentiment could engender exclusivity and quality: it's all in the marketing.
Enough people have heard the "If you're not paying, you're the product" line that some variation on that should hit home: ie, "Memo.cash - where you're not the product"
And enough people don't care if they are the product. They'd rather pay in tracking and advertising and surveillance than with a couple bucks. This is billions of people.
I think they *DO* care if they're the product; they just don't know any other way. This problem is not endemic to memo and will require an overall shift in the consumer zeitgeist.
If you are not paying for it, you're the product...
paying for it doesn't mean you aren't the product also
Most people don't care.
They starting to care cuz they know it effects who gets elected.
Its an easy answer. No crap advertising, nobody stealing your personal information. and you can post whatever you want. Just 1.00 of BCH at USD value will last a very long time. .
Agree, even though 1 BCH is realistically way too much. 0.001 - 0.01 BCH would by far be enough to last you a considerable amount of time!
I kind of said that backwards. What I meant was change 1.00 USD into BCH. LOL.
Still need way to see people's balances so you can find who need tips. I *think* it's possible. But if address hasn't posted anything or set a name, you don't know they're here.
Check profiles. In the menu. Suppose you could write a script to get the full output and lookup the balance of the addresses in parentheses.
Add btn to memo++ chrome ext I meany. Any addr can be user tho, profiles page is just users who created address through memo.cash site, but not necessarily all users of memo protocol.
Could work entirely from tips. A "new to memo" account that would make a new memo with the addresses/new profiles with a like/tip button for each new account. Could even show balances.
Hmm right, but users that sign up on memo.cash would be the target for tips right? Maybe a memo feature to broadcast new accounts every x amount of blocks?
User modulus could maybe add button to profiles page to load balances of all users, but couldn't sort by that. Think memo could add that to the site. Some of their AJAX is hacky IMO.
When memo++ adds balances, how about adding money button so community can fund them right up, if they are 0.00000000?! @memo @modulus
Need to fund new accounts with enough for at least 2-3 posts. Then they can get tipped. Maybe with the stress test, we can tip newer accounts. Then use FOMO to promote signing up b4.
The could be a competition somehow, best new account by best content wins some kinda prize in BCH.
