I know this may not be the best question to ask in a post, since most of you who see it are indeed eating your own dog food, meaning you're using the platform/ecosystem/blockchain on a regular basis.
I'm however mostly pointing the question out to our witnesses/devs/etc.
Isn't it a bit weird that most just sit behind the shadows and barely use the platform for social reasons?
I can understand some are very busy, leading a team of multiple people so they don't have the time to be active daily, there are however some I highly doubt they're doing much outside of that and they barely use the dapps/front-ends. It's a bit odd to me.
The only thing that makes sense is that they probably just get active when there's something to be earned rather than actually enjoying the existing things hive has to offer and the community.
Now I'm someone who does enjoy being active daily and hope this place turns into a better Reddit eventually, better than it is now but even better than the old Reddit where I mostly enjoyed my time being social online. If it was up to me I'd hire people to do the daily things I gotta do to make things run so I could spend more time just consuming content/shortform/other here and engaging with users as that's what mostly drew me to this place and what I mostly did in my first year of being active here.
Over time however I noticed some missing pieces that required me to step in and become a curator. It's probably no surprise to some of you as I have mentioned it time and time before that I like keeping things manual on this account, so you know whenever a vote is left it's been me reading or engaging with a piece of content/comment. Many opt for the other ways however.
Even at this point in time when I finally can do a lot of things myself with the help of AI and I'm struggling to keep things moving with the many projects I got running, I still make time for posts and comments and to manually curate things on different feeds/dapps/places.
Dunno the point of this post really, but I see a lot of people who come back and are all like "oh well I've been here active all along" and "not just cause there's something I'm interested in getting a piece of the pie from the current discussion", while there's been very little if any proof that they've been active on any chats/blockchain.
I also don't really understand some people who mainly sit in discords all day while they let their projects they believed in so much wither and die, even after having spent so much money from the collective Hive fund.
Probably just waiting for father time to erase the memories of their failures and hoping that when things turn around they'll be welcomed back to get some more of that juice that's flown into our ecosystem.
Dunno about you but I usually have a pretty good memory, if anything I think it's healthy to look around every now and then and wonder if you feel like some people still deserve your autovotes, witness votes, proposal votes, follows, attention, etc. If it feels like it's been too much words without substance in the past it's probably time to move on rather than keep being dragged behind or fall into the same pitfalls over and over again.
Being constantly active is also not easy however, doesn't matter what you say or actions you do, there's always and will always be a percentage that take it the wrong way or choose to do so. It's kind of the nature of censorship resistance/freedom of speech I suppose. Hopefully the wisdom of the crowd keeps being fair as majority stake over time, once that changes I'll probably won't be active here any longer.
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I think about this a lot too; I wish those who have a lot of influence here in Hive would dedicate more time to it. That's why I'm excited that you, despite having other commitments, are so active; it gives me hope. I think you're very concerned about Hive and want it to work, and I appreciate that, as does the Hispanic community. Perhaps the others are too busy.
It feels like a lot of the big accounts have went into hibernation. I wonder how many of them even still pay attention. It's possible they made bank in other cryptos and totally forgot about their HIVE bags. Wouldn't that be a problem to have!?
This is a thought provoking post but, honestly, I find it sad. I am an old user and have witnessed that crowd here and those massive activities. I agree if anyone who was sharing 1000 times in the past good times can atleast share one time a day to keep their attatchment with the ecosystem. This is called loyalty.
A quick comment thanking @acidyo for staying manually active and setting an example for manual curation on Hive.
Mr. @acido, although I’m relatively new here, I didn’t experience that boom period when, as some have told me, people made a living on Hive as if it were a great job—and could even buy a new cell phone—but I think what you’re saying is very important, since human warmth is needed today more than ever, and learning from one another helps build relationships that create one big family; and, in my opinion, the more people there are, the more likely it is that large companies will be encouraged to invest here.
@acidyo Greetings, I've certainly asked myself that question many times; sometimes we don't have enough time, it's a matter of distributing that time better.
That's the best thing a content creator gets. Being read! I have witnessed, however, that there are content creators who do not honor the readers who leave comments on their posts. They rarely reply to any. Still, they receive a good amount of votes which I am sure are auto votesw.