You hit a lot of really valid points here.

Attracting eyes is great, as is SEO... but you're exactly right in that the ocean of pablum and mindless pseudocontent we see everywhere is the result of the primary objective being to generate ad exposure and doesn't have squat to do with community building for the long run. If you're into pattern recognition at all, you might have noticed how you can be watching an authentically interesting YT video (for example), but if you follow a path of clicking on the most promising "suggested" in the sidebar, you will invariably be pulled towards more and more average and bland content because even though the algorithm is somewhat "smart," it nonetheless pulls the "most likely" (most popular) keywords from a stack and suggests those. So even though you may have started at X-ray Spex, after 20-25 clicks, your "suggestions" end up being Green Day and Linkin Park.

What does that have to DO with anything? One, discernment in attracting those eyeballs is essential, and two, retention is way more important than just bulk attraction.

Yes, consumers are essential. There's little point in creating if there's nobody to consume those creations. Similarly, there's little point in rolling out an endless stream of dApps if nobody actually uses them. It's about as meaningless as building the world's greatest shopping mall with the world's best shops... in the middle of the Sahara.

a quick and easy guest account would be a necessity. That guest can comment, people with stake can upvote those comments, but that guest can't receive those rewards until they've signed up.

From a raw marketing perspective, you're onto something there. Hells, yeah, guest account. You can even pick your ID. And you can see your rewards, as Guest-EdBob maybe for up to a month before they start dropping off. But you have to make a real account in order to become just EdBob and collect your rewards. Why not? Basic psychology: People hate losing out on free stuff they feel like they earned.

converting themselves into the browser who then enters a world of an endless stream of shit posts that they can't seem to put down for some stupid reason, much like how Youtube works.

Sad, but true. Because it works. Because entire floors of design devs known as "retention specialists" sit in office cube densepacks doing nothing other than planning what path of clickery will lure you to pursue a series of dopamine rewards that will leave you red-eyed and open-mouthed after watching eleven hours of videos on how to cheat at Scrabble.

I think we're still a really long way from being able to elevate the level of human consciousness with this gig.

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