Do you think musing will take over quora ?
That really is the Million [Steem] question right?
The same can be asked of will Steemit/Busy take over Medium.com, Dtube over Youtube, Steepshot over Instagram, etc...
To start, What is the value of Musing over Quora? What is the difference of the model between the 2.
It obvious of course that Quora has the attention and the userbase, whereas Musing is still somewhat niched to the Steem community.
Musing's business model is the benficiary from the users who posts and get upvotes, where Quora's is by ads..
The central philosophy of building apps on top of the Steem Blockchain is so that content creators dont need to rely on ads to fund their work, they are free to advertise as an influencer of write sponsored content, but they do not NEED to do that to survive..
Users go to Quora because much like facebook, everyone who wants to ask or answer questions are on Quora. Though not to take away credit from Quora, they built a very beautiful site and answering questions as a writer is damn addicting.
Quora's edge over Musing is it's speed and tailored content that uses Big Data to keep users entertained with content they like. If i answered a question about Steem, Quora knows that I am also a fan of Bitcoin etc...
Musing will always lose to Quora in terms of how versatile it's database can be and how fast it can load data. Quora after is centralised and centralized database will always be faster than decentralized database.
Not is gloom and doom though, do you rather answer questions for free or get at least 1 cent everytime you do? those cents adds up quick.. When people knows this, Musing will be in for a fun ride...
Musing can also use a centralized database to load similar content. The benefit of decentralized nature of STEEM is that even if anything happens to that, as long as all the info stored in the DB is somewhere on the steem posts(metadata), it should be able to be recreated. Its just about filling that DB with good questions and answers now and then making a good system to load that information for users.
It would be exciting to see Musing needing to move to a centralized database one day, it makes personalized feed much easier and possible and only record metadata such as upvotes and comments on the Steem Blockchain.
Baby steps I guess.
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