It's obvious that in order to grow our community in the long and short term, we need to attract the "big guys" what I mean by that is individuals with a large audience that by joining our community, will convince others to do the same. In other words, we need to attract the big pieces to start the domino effect. The people we need are people with a huge audience, that their revenue stream is already coming from the Web. You guessed it right, YOUTUBERS and STREAMERS. There are certain problems we need to fix before being able to be more attractive as a platform than any other platform for content creators.
Youtubers, to be able to live off of their content, need to produce content fast and the easier it is to produce it, the better. That's why we are seeing a shift toward LIVE video or Streaming on Youtube because is the easiest way to produce content and to interact directly and instantly with followers. The reason why I think STEEMIT could easily compete with Youtube, Twitch and any other streaming platform is simple. It is with its payment system that requires no financial sacrifice from the content viewer to reward the content creator for his content. This fact would mean that in the occurrence of this project becoming a reality, STEEMIT would become the platform with the most attractive financial rewards and by causality, it would attract streamers, content creators and their audience to our wonderful platform STEEMIT. I am aware of the existence of third party tools to diffuse your live video from another platform to STEEMIT but in my opinion, this isn't enough because:
1) The content creators will not be as loyal as he would be if his content was directly uploaded to STEEMIT. The reason for this is because he would only see Steemit as a "side hustle" and will not take it seriously because, at any time, he can just say F this, I am going to go back to Youtube.
2) The payment system doesn't interact well when the stream is from another platform. Viewers are able to upvote but the streamer won't be able to answer paid questions or anything like that. So Steemit should have its own system, something looking a lot like Youtube Live video chat or Twitch system to enable these interactions between the viewer and the content creator.
If we want to be the platform of the future, we need our platform to be reflective of the image of this future, a future with multiple ways to create value with multiple forms of content (video, streaming, articles, novels, music, etc.) I am also aware of the hard work of the developers and that this platform is still at the BETA stage, But I think it is important to share our vision of the future of this platform. Even, if I only created my account a few days ago, I see myself as a part of the future of this platform. Thank you for reading, make sure to give me an insight of your own vision in the comments!