Honestly, i think that's a very good idea, Eric. There are good things scattered everywhere, we just fail to see them and become distracted with the negative stuff, but if one looked carefully, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of good things to be salvaged.
I think it's so hard to convince "normies" to try alternatives is that they don't really care. Take, for instance, Telegram. It's exactly like Whatsapp, yet few use it. Why? Because they don't really care about their privacy. Like seriously, how bad can it be to just use Facebook? I mean if it's kinda the same, why go through all the trouble of installing another app? They gloss over the bad things.
Thanks @honeydue! I totally agree, most aren't the least bit concerned with lack of privacy unless they've felt the pain of being hacked personally. I think the one aspect that would draw "normies" would be the potential to make money by doing something they already do. The transition would have to be made to be really easy though.
Yes, definitely. I've noticed this, when suggesting others join Steem -if it takes five days for their account to go through and then another two weeks to figure it out, they lose interest. And that's not really what we want, I believe.