I agree with you, we all do otherwise we wouldn’t be here.
It is a matter of time and network economics that truly matter here.
I think it is a hard sell personally speaking with these messages, not impossible, nothing ever is, just harder to convince users unless it is done in a super targeted manner with super targeted messaging and in a timely manner which is somewhat out of our hands and is in the hands of the Gods.
Let me get this out the way first:
In a true step-by-step process you need farmers from the get-go.
And in fact per some of my previous posts the farmers will attract the users, they will be INCENTIVISED to do this. And in doing so it aids our efforts greatly.
If I as a farmer can earn some passive income by switching my computer on, clicking the Snet program on, that’s cool, whats cooler is if I am one of the very first people to do so (elder node?) and if I can get a lot more people uploading data my little passive income stream maybe turns into something more.
Remember: Money is an incentive so powerful, people give their lives for it and there are a lot of people earning a lot less money than you and I.
If I tell my friends “come to Snet, you can upload all your movies, games, videos and pictures, store it there, its easier and its yours for good” or better yet I tell my privacy-pilled friends “this is a data privacy network” and they do come, but then when they get there its super slow and klunky, unless they are really keen on it, they’ll just shrug their shoulders and go meh and move onto the next thing.
How many people right now do you think turn the Dogecoin core wallet on, realize nothing is happening because its gotta sync headers, connect to nodes and then friggin catch up 7 years worth of data and so they are turning it off after a day?
A lot!
Dogecoin has millions of users yet only 800 or so full nodes. This is ridiculous and although Dogecoins marketing efforts in attracting people are one of the best it loses many of these people because there is no utility and its slow. These people sell and exchange their tokens for the next thing.
You need the farmers (supply) first, the farmers allow the users to operate, not the other way around. The users (demand) already exist just not in our world, the farmers do not exist, they need to be created, you risk losing the demand the minute you invite it because there is no supply and the network sh*ts itself. How embarrassing would that be years and years of work only to lose people at the finish line because the network is slow.
I will admit this can be quickly fixed because of the reasons I have already laid out, money as incentive.
But it is something that needs to be done from the onset. Step 1.
Now assuming we get this right and lets say we attract hundreds of farmers, not hundreds of nodes but hundreds of farmers, maybe one thousand farmers, we are primed and ready to go, how do we achieve a flood of data?
How do we achieve this relationship you speak of?
I am currently listening to Matt Ridley’s How Innovation Works.
SUPER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for all SNet nerds and especially the SNet marketing serfs.
One thing that is striking and should be obvious but isn’t always is that innovation happens mostly in the UNREGULATED domains and that is exactly the opposite of where the clearnet is going.
It’s going super regulated and has been for some years. ISP’s blocking domains, host’s blocking and banning companies, governments and politicians going after people, heck in Australia you can’t even buy a .com.au top level domain name without first having an Australian Business Number! We all know, no point discussing it here, we know.
Snet provides this new regulation free area but the ONE thing that makes us stand out head and shoulders in this NEW and UNREGULATED world is that we are literally creating and innovating DATA-ECONOMICS!
Data Economics has been ruled over by the Lords of the world wide web, the tech giants since its inception.
Now its coming to a computer near you!
This opportunity has never before existed.
The internet gave us the tools to communicate. Previously it was the printing presses, TV networks and radio stations that ruled these domains.
Now it is the Instagram’s and TickTocks.
We were given the ability to communicate and create…ahhh but so long as the algorithm liked what we were doing and of course we never owned the data, they did, they monetized it and gave us the measly scraps, sometimes those scraps equated to millions of dollars for select few people but for the most, it amounted to nothing.
Its the user-generated-content formula of them monetizing 100% of everything their users upload and yet only paying out to 20% or less. This is on he front end. On the back end they just sell it all!
Im using these examples because they’re easy to grasp.
But just for a second in your minds eye see a piece of data, a file, a photo, a bit of 1 or 0. Now this bit of data is valuable.
It might be 1c for the sake of grasping the analogy.
It has value.
What we are truly REALLY doing with SAFE among all of the fancy schmancy crypto and privacy MUMBO-JUMBO buzz wordery is we are giving people the keys to controlling that 1c of data! But it’s not just 1c, its hundreds of thousands and millions if not billions and trillions of them!
The users using the Bitcoin analogy now have the private keys to their own VALUABLE data. They decide!
They can pay and upload it to the network, they can receive in return for it or they can farm and earn.
Its an entire Data-Economics system that no one entity owns or controls!
We’re taking the key away from Lord Google, Facebook and Amazon and we’re giving it to the people.
What they do with it, and how the developers build on top of it we’ll have to wait to see what happens, but the mechanics of the network are there for us to do this. And we’re doing it.
Just like the Internet gave people the power to communicate and control some of their communication, or like how Bitcoin allowed people to be their own banks, we are now allowing people to be their own servers and control their own DATA Economics.
No more uploading your videos, photos, and audio to the lords and they decide what slice of your own data-value they give back to you if any at all, no! Now you decide how much you put in and how much you take out!
Like I said earlier I cannot get away from the fact MONEY is DIRECTLY tied to this network, it is inherent and we need to PUSH this. It is magical when you really think about it.
There is a reason people put solar fcking panels on their roof and i’ll give you a little tip, it’s not because they want to save the fcking environment!
Surveillance f*cking CAPITALISM!
Bitcoin gave you the keys to the bank.
The Internet gave you the keys to communication.
We’re giving you the keys to the server.
Sorry edited. Getting excited.