Regarding ads -why would they run ads and receive USD? This is the same business model as traditiuonal social media platforms. Then you have to deal with the problems of people running adblockers. Hundreads of millions of internet users use adblockers today - something that barely had an traction until a few years ago.
Running ads also comes with other problems e.g. censorship etc.
You can't have a true 'free speech' platform thats funded by ads and USD as advertisers have rules about where they want their content run. There's also increasingly
problems with ad fraud.
Using a crypto coin like Golos gets around all these problems.
Well, I was just saying that atleast with Synereo the money is coming from something that's actually considered of value (ad views, giving advertisers more sales). All Steem does is create coins out of thin air (which are supposed to suddenly have value, but really where does that value come from?? economically it makes zero sense lol) and then it's "users" aka "whales" get to chose who gets the new coins aka "their alt accounts/friends". The system is inherently flawed to begin with lol, where does the value come from?
Also, Why monetize social media? If the idea is that paying users means they will create better content, that's not true at all. If anything it's the opposite. I can promise the content I posted on Steem was not "better" by any means, It was more like fishing. I just kept posting shit until something finally paid off lol. If anything it increases spam/duplicate content, because after all, it's much harder to do something for free than it is under the guise of getting paid.
Steem makes no sense to me lol, it's a useless machine handing out coins that should technically have no value.
I don't think any of the social marketing coins are a very solid idea. I don't think social media should be monetized. But, at least Synereo is trying to tackle a verifiably profitable business model (FB/IG/SC/TWTR).
The comment about USD was because the average person would be like "wtf is an amp, and how do I get money out of it?". If you are targeting 250m Russians, the easiest path is going to win. If you have to teach every completely new user about bitcoin, exchanges, how to store/utilize this new currency, most people are going to just blow it off lol. Why not just pay in Fiat/Giftcards like all of the other pay-to-watch sites already on the market dominating the space if the true goal was mass adoption? (hint: the goal isn't mass adoption, it never is).
good luck though man, I'm sure it might pump well. I am just not seeing Steem's model as a sustainable one (well I suppose they can give out free coins forever, I just don't see them being valuable for long in that case)
Also, if someone powerful wants something down, it doesn't matter if it's on Steem, FB, Synereo, Reddit, 4Chan, and even with work, the dark web, they can and will get it removed. As for advertisers not wanting to advertise on their content, that'd be the posters loss for creating content that can't be utilized. This is the only business model where you are actually contributing to society... Instead of just spamming steem in hopes a whale will upvote your post so you get free coins... coins that no one paid for that should technically be worth nothing.