Decentralization to me in its simplest form basically means no single point of failure. Disorganization and chaos causes several points of failure.
Pretty much hit the nail on the head here. You can still have a lead development team who have a communal vision on what they want this place to become and still be decentralised!
I don't know if you have spent any time on Leo but the way things are run there are kind of how I envisaged Hive would be like with the rewards system if there was a drive to make it happen. The consumer rewards are always overlooked but is that because the HIVE project is just overlooked as a whole because there's no dedicated, proper marketing team? Or is it because everyone in the world bar a couple of million (at most) haven't come across cryptocurrencies and don't trust anything inherently "crypto-y"?
Just throwing out questions here, not saying one one scenario is right vs the other.
I've spent a small amount of time on LEO. As a consumer, having to travel from place to place is rather distracting, so I still prefer PeadD, but I have checked out the LEO platform/app. Now imagine how much a consumer nightmare it would be having thousands of those platform/apps, with no connection. If not for PeakD I wouldn't even know about LEO. Much like how I didn't know about the poker game. And several continuous random blog posts about a poker game would be about as annoying as having the success of LEO being crammed down my throat constantly. That was a lighthearted quip. I respect what they've done, a lot.
Yes LEO is doing well. Watch what happens when the well dries up and the severe lack of dedicated paying consumers problem comes into the equation. Can't depend on speculators and irrational markets to drive interest in a platform that delivers an actual sellable product. Simply look at Hive if you don't believe me. But I know you believe me.
Marketing is important, but tell me, my friend, how I'm to explain the future to anyone, if the future isn't set in stone. Four years and all we're doing here is fiddling with knobs and moving the goalposts around. I can't sell something today that is going to change in four months and bring on an entirely new set of unforeseen circumstances.
Those consumer rewards are CRITICAL and the masses will be consumers. Everything here is developed with the hopes it will be used.
People do not care about the fundamentals of crypto. When Facebook releases Libra, plenty of folks will simply use it. We live in a bubble and love crypto, forgetting most people couldn't care less. They just like being entertained. The surface. Nobody cares about how the core of the planet creates a magnetic field that protects from interstellar wind or some shit. They just live and breathe.
Sorry man I'm rambling away again.
There's a lack of trust in crypto. Those folks come and see crypto being crammed down everyone's throats and it sometimes looks like a crypto cult. Maybe they just want to watch videos or look at pictures. Something they can relate to. Dude, why is music struggling here? Lack of consumers. We both know everyone loves music. Without an audience, there's no musicians.
Consumers need a main home base, and a token everyone spends their money on to get a taste of the action. Then from there that consumer money spills over onto the second layer. It needs to be connected like that in my opinion, when I look at the entire picture that for the most part hasn't been painted yet, or it won't work. Just look how the disconnected experience negatively affects us now. People signing up to splinterlands. Do they all know about the other games, or PeakD? When everything is connected the money travel freely, creating a much easier path to success as a whole. There's healthy competition and then there's the ball hog who would rather try to score all the goals himself, leaving the team behind, and losing the game for everyone.