Compensating users for their attention is certainly better than expecting their labor for free.
This is very powerful, GG is doing more with less friction. Imagine if each Gems is worth one dollar, its userbase would reach millions where you could basically earn serious money per day. In netnox case he would get $183 per day just by airdrop. We are seing that GG model is working pretty well, i mean its reaching 100k users already.
Please quote that correctly because I didn't write that. I was quoting Synereo's white paper. I fixed it above.
My point is that paying users for interacting on social networks, or paying them to watch ads, is not a viable economic model. I provided a link to my post at the Synereo thread that explains why I think so.
GetGems is not reaching 70k users. That is the count of downloads and downloads doesn't equal users. We'd need some statistics on actual usership, e.g. how many minutes per day using the app, etc.. I'd expect roughly 5% of downloads convert to users if the app is very good and has a compelling use case.
Additionally, the value of Gems is irrelevant if there is not a compelling reason for the users to trade the tokens with each other. There is no way investors in the token are going to finance you to give away $183 per day to each user just for being in a daily airdrop. That is pure fantasy. You have to actually create an ecosystem. You can't just drop money and expect an ecosystem to magically emerge. There must be network efforts.
You are talking about targeting adults, adults is not gg's target audience and i dont think adults are thriving social media worldwide. For some users even $1 in airdrop is great, why would i use WhatsApp if i can have all my contacts in GetGems (which is compatible to Telegram) and get rewarded for my activity?
The post I linked to, also referred to the youth. And my point was that ads pay less to target the youth because they have less money to spend (and if they have more to spend they don't need your $1 airdrop).
IMHO, you are missing the point that users don't join social networking for chump change income. They join it for other larger motivations. We are discussing those motivations in the Synereo thread. Feel free to disagree with me.
If you are the programmer, we can talk in PM, explore this more and see if there are mutual opportunities. I don't have time to carry on this discussion in your thread. Thanks.
You are right, an ecosystem needs to emerge and thats whats slowly maturing right now. Last update was 10k downloads in 20 days, as the ecosystem grows things will go even faster. If the top Messengers are reaching marketcaps in billions i don't see why gg can't reach 100 million or a big player tries to buy it. It is afterall the most advanced messenger, im not even talking about its reward value program. Just the fact that it allows you to send money worldwide in the context of conversation makes is worth to look at.
Please publish a transcription or summary logs on all the metrics about usership and ecosystem activities.