WHY MOST PEOPLE ARE STILL EARLY TO WEB3, EVEN NOW.

People often say crypto is no longer early, hmmmm is that really true? well I understand why they think that way, they look at market size headlines and focus on regulations. Also they believe it is already too rampant in our modern/civilised days that almost everyone has heard about it or knows about it so that makes it less positive.
On the surface the argument makes sense but awareness has never been the same thing as adoption and also knowing about something does not mean people are actually living inside it or using it without effort. They may have just heard it and not really explore, registration is not validation, many users on so many platforms are dormant, they basically just have accounts and thats it.

Most people know what Web3 is at least at a surface level but very few people move through it naturally.
very few people wake up and interact with the web3 social media/hive the way they use email or web2 social media without thinking twice. Being early has never really been about price or catching bottoms it has always been about behavior about how people interact with systems before they become invisible and fade into the background of daily life

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Right now Web3 still requires effort, it still requires thinking and wallets still feel uncomfortable to new users and even to people who have been around for a while. interfaces are getting better but they are not instinctive yet, the average person still feels nervous moving value and double checks everything before clicking and that kind of feeling usually disappears only when a system is no longer early.
When technology matures people stop talking about how to use it they stop explaining steps and guides and warnings they just use it without thinking about it and that is not where Web3 is today, on web3 we are still learning about new interaction methods, frontends and still lookng for opportunities to utilise the knowledge on the platform as well so i dont think it has gotten to the point where users can navigate their way through the hive on a scale of 100% as a beginner.

If you look back at older technologies the pattern is always the same email existed long before it felt normal smartphones existed before app ecosystems made them essential and the internet existed long before social norms formed around it early stages are always messy they feel inefficient and they reward patience more than speed. Web3 feels like it is still in that phase, builders are experimenting, communities are still forming.
culture and education still matters more than marketing which is usually a sign that a system has not settled yet and look at web3 today, that is where we are!

Another thing is how people see the value, most people still approach Web3 through speculation at first but only a few see it as infrastructure, what comes to a lame mans mind or a random web2 user would most likely be sketchy, seeing encrypted keys and a crypro like system, to most people it is super complicated and that kind of shift takes time, it cannot be rushed

Social media platforms or frontends like @inleo #inleo and #Hive play a bigger role at this stage than most people realize. Now we already know that people are skeptical, some are unconvinced for some reason, some are confused or not so tech inclined but #inleo looks like a regular social media with gifs and an active ai assistant, engaging a large number of people through blogs and microblogs and so many tokens powered by the #hive-engine, all these features combined together is a perfect bait to encourage a newbie... and he goes .."oh its really fun!, just like x, i just thought it was confusing"

Well we all are still learning or rediscovering one thing or the other on the #blockchain so it is still a good time for newbies to come join us, learn with us and grow with us!

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