The analysis of the first item, Steemit, is incorrect. Rewards paid on Steemit are paid in STEEM, a native asset to the same blockchain that holds all the content, not an ERC-20, as STEEM has nothing to do with Ethereum.
I didn’t read any further, as such a glaring inaccuracy turned me off from the article.
To answer the question: you should start using them now if you care about other things more than about socializing. If you primarily care about socializing you'd obviously want to socialize where everyone is and that's the centralized social networks.
Ironically these niche guys have to post on centralized sites to attract users. That's what makes sense for them, and that's fine, but I'd argue their efforts to promote their niche decentralized networks make them use centralized networks even more than they did before.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 43.4 ms ] threadI didn’t read any further, as such a glaring inaccuracy turned me off from the article.
Source: have hacked on Steem a fair bit
To answer the question: you should start using them now if you care about other things more than about socializing. If you primarily care about socializing you'd obviously want to socialize where everyone is and that's the centralized social networks.
Ironically these niche guys have to post on centralized sites to attract users. That's what makes sense for them, and that's fine, but I'd argue their efforts to promote their niche decentralized networks make them use centralized networks even more than they did before.
There is also P2P Reddit, http://notabug.io/ which like D.Tube, runs off of GUN. It already has 1K/daily active users!
This isn’t an article about decentralized social media, it’s a list of apps where publishers are paid in crypto currency.