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RE: Weku, Whaleshares, Bearshares and Other Steemit Clones: The "Dilution Challenge"
Simply copying with a few tweaks might attract some initial attention, but — kind of like it tends to happen with movie sequels — once the initial attention dies down a bit, most people go back to the original and the copy never gets very far out of the "shadow."
That's true, yet it's funny that what might seem like a few tweaks could have huge effects on the network and make it far better place to be. What is also needed, unfortunately, is a professional top tier branding and marketing factor too. Cloners shouldn't kid themselves that the people they want to reach are "normies" and so love to buy into brand, hype and good UX.
I think smoke.io is doing is best so far.
I think a lot of people hear "complaining noises" and start a new venue, thinking that the 100 or so gripey users are actually tens of thousands.
Then the reality sets in: Just because someone is complaining doesn't mean they are quite ready to abandon ship. A great exercise is to look at the "new posts" feed for each of these sites... Whaleshares had 11 new posts in the last 30 minutes; Weku had 14... and here we had hundreds.
Yes, Smoke appears to be doing quite well... and they had the wisdom to make themselves a niche site.