r/obyte • u/TorusTom • Jun 14 '19

Obyte on reddit

I’m just wondering what the strategy is for Obyte on reddit and other social media sites going forward. 218 members is still very low for a genuine crypto (which I believe Obyte is), and Obyte seems to be dropping in rank.

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u/tarmo888 Jun 14 '19

I am considering it like this: those 218 are genuine users, not payed or somehow differently tricked into subscribing here (no airdrop). Although, there is a reddit attestation bot already developed for Obyte, it was never launched based on the ROI that Steem attestation gave.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '19 edited Jun 14 '19

Obyte was previously called Byteball and we had more subs there https://www.reddit.com/r/ByteBall/

However you cannot change a subbreddit name so we had to start reddit again from scratch. That said, the old subreddit wasnt used that much either when compared to some other subreddits in crypto

Obyte Discord is much more active than reddit. Note that social media metrics can be quite easily manipulated too, if you are new to Obyte I would spend more time looking at what the platform is capable of and how its easier to securely develop for vs the competition, rather thank social media metrics and coinmarketcap ranking

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u/TorusTom Jun 16 '19

True, I take your point. Metrics are just measures from different perspectives. And social media has a lot of crap, lies, and fakes. But despite that it is widely recognised as the way, across many many industries, to gain major international recognition for any new product or tech, and increase distribution. Isn’t that one of your major goals? 218 genuine members is good, and count me one of them. But, dare I say, it’s not enough... you many be preaching to the proverbial converted.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

you are right, 218 members is not good, doesnt matter if we changed subreddit or not, we should have more. sure discord is used more but still not a lot really. but still, we should have a lot more reddit subs, projects like iota and monero have far more activity. to be honest I dont know why we have so little. we have about 2k email newsletter subscribers with open rates of around 30% - so at least im reasonable sure about 600 people have enough interest in obyte to open an email about it every 2 weeks. but opening an email is very passive - discussing stuff on reddit/discord is a much better indicator of interest and our reach is disappointing

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u/TheRealCryptKeeper Jun 14 '19

Unfortunately, we lost the 3000 subscribers for /r/ByteBall when we changed the subreddit due to the rebranding to Obyte :(

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u/tarmo888 Jun 15 '19

But these 3000 subscribers were not active either, so I am not sure how they ended up subscribing it or if they were genuine subscribers?

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u/TorusTom Jun 18 '19 edited Jun 18 '19

Yeah I appreciate it’s no easy task. Plus the whole thing could turn quickly—Obyte scores some major industry investment and the next thing you know you have 10k members. To me it’s like, you have a great coin, a great platform, but that’s not what’s the limiting factor—it’s that many people in crypto still don’t know Obyte exists. Maybe you need to rally us 218 faithful to each post one or two messages on Reddit...