Why do almost 90% of the platforms introduced through this forum have to create their own coins and tokens immediately?
What I've learned about the founders of giant platforms like Paypal, Alibaba, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. is that they don't. They just make a platform that really hopes it will be used by people around the world without creating tokens to attract investors early in the journey (maybe they did but it was privately so that in the end we only heard the story). So that when their platform becomes a well-known brand, the money comes naturally through big investors, sponsors, and partners from other well-known figures/brands.
In addition (funnier), platforms with social and community bases that have no purpose or solution to the financial case must force themselves to stay in the mainstream by tokenizing their services which in the end the token creation itself becomes useless.
Why don't the current projects almost all follow in the footsteps of existing famous brands?
At the end of the day the main reason why you see almost all new platforms creating their own token is make money after selling it out, no two ways about it everyone wants to be rich that's why tokens are been sold to investors, and about these platforms you mentioned they were created and running even before bitcoin was created, we all know bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency so how can this platforms be tokenized when they existed before the creation of bitcoin it's not possible, but to be honest I really admire those platforms because they started from scratch without needing money from investors.