Why do you think they're gone?
The reason is very simple, and it applies to all Web3 social networks. People are mainly drawn in by the idea of making money, and I think that’s fundamentally wrong. Socialization should come first — people should want to spend time online, make friends, and be part of a community. Constantly promoting earnings as the main feature won’t build a network that can truly scale. (Just my opinion.)
I fully agree. I stay around because there's cool people here(and most of them don't care about the earning part, just a bonus). It's social media first and the crypto thing is just on the side.
The utility of Hive is also bigger than just the earnings, most people doesn't get sentimental about crypto it's just a way to make money for them, Hive may be a way to earn money but also it's a nice platform to get info, to learn about crypto, to exchange assets...
I learned about crypto through Hive so that's more important to me than just the economic part.
You're right about that. I've seen this in 8 years that's I've been here. They come, look at the post in trending and expect to get the same results in two weeks. When that doesn't happen, they leave, move on to another platform, doing the same. Many think web3 is posting some sh*t and then banking the money. Short sighted lunatics.
I believe that many of those who have left in recent months are for your reasons, many like @dlmmqb message are for other reasons outside the blockchain but the important thing is to have staking, if you unstake you want to abandon what you love, and that perhaps you don't love enough, especially if you do it now, you think there is no future and this shows that you don't believe in the power of this blockchain, I discovered it thanks to @libertycrypto27 when it was still Steemit I was little, 15 years old and I didn't get in there, I got in the following year with HIVE and it was the best choice of my life, those who leave now are only a positive thing, only those who believe in it remain and we can relate and create a community as we like and as you said!
I disagree with this. The main motivator for most forms of concrete effort is money itself. We see this with all platforms that scaled, everything from Roblox to Facebook. When you're embedding money into a platform and then telling people not to think of it as an incentive, you're asking them to do doublethink. It doesn't work. Clearly the financial incentive is part of it. The only way to remove it would be to remove Hive. So then we must go in the opposite direction, and make it something that people feel they can live off (or at least supplement themselves with) or use as a savings vehicle.
The only way for that to happen is that the content has to go beyond being used just by other content creators. Think of Youtube. What if the only people watching videos were other youtube content creators? Would that be a successful platform? So it comes down to usability, attractiveness, and scale. But yeah, the financial incentive is embedded in the Hive itself. It is Hive.
This is a subject for debate, but it's not worth promoting Hive as a constant and easy source of income (my opinion).
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Mm. Well I certainly agree when you say that it shouldn't be easy, but it's the constant part that needs work. If people constantly give value, they should constantly see a return. Otherwise they'll take their efforts elsewhere, which is exactly what we're seeing.
But it's as you say. This requires more discussion.
