yes and no.
User Experience. we can argue as it is personal preference but peakd for me is still better, but no arguing about the fact that Leofinace is doing a great job.
half of the engagement is based on the hype. and also you are right that Leofinance is a more targeted platform with currently much less posts and users.
Development
Leofinance can concentrate upon developing its application and building out its ecosystem. Those like Blocktrades who are involved in the core coding for the blockchain have a much wider scope of work and, thus, responsibility. Therefore, we have to give the benefit when it comes to prioritizing.
As you said here, totally different parts of development. Can't be compered. My point of view is that Leo is doing a really good job on making on boarding easier and pushing it out into the word. but we need to go back to centralized vs decentralized. Khal can just click a button (of course the work needs to be done...) and it is up and running. On hive you first need to get a broader consensus, than coordinate with witnesses...
Khal is for sure giving it all to make it work. He does look like a good guy and someone who you can trust to do the right thing. If you just look how the hack was dealt with is probably enough.
On all other things, we are going back to something you also mentioned, comparing the incomparable. If Leo had to think about blockchan, witnesses... he would not be able to do what he does, but he is using base layer the best he can.
What Khal recognized and is using in fullest is he has the biggest pool of potential users in the area he is working on. Crypto and finance. Because if you look at it, who is most likely to start using a blockchain and buy and use tokens? People that are already into crypto. And i would argue that all people in crypto are into finance. But not all people in crypto are into sports, art, photography, cooking, hiking, travel... So he used it for a base layer and now he is branching out with new ways of on boarding people that are not that much involved in crypto (don't understand how everything works, and are not that eager to learn)
Leo is for sure showing everyone what can be done, and how base layer can be used and it is doing a good job of it.
All that is correct and acknowledged. And for core interaction and coding of the blockchain, you are 100% on.
However, what about all the other tribes/communities? They are not hindered by what you allude to. They do not have to deal with witness or blockchain coding to evolve their projects.
That is why I feel all this needs to take place outside of the base layer of Hive. As long as the blockchain keeps evolving to hand all that it is tasked with, such as all the transactions including posts, comments, and whatnot, then all is well. Peakd keeps improving and updating, so it is not as if there isn't a front end that keeps making progress, there is.
However, peakd is still a general use application. There are dozens of tribes that are more targeted yet they seem to be doing little. Certainly, they have the same freedom as Khal to innovation and do as they see fit with their applications.
Yet, for some reason, none of them are making progress. The games seem to be doing a better job of it although they, at this point, do not appear to be bringing in a ton of users (perhaps I am wrong on that, I dont have numbers either way).
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tribes are maybe lacking ambition, finance, building web pages knowledge... i don't know. maybe some things will change with something Khal mentioned few times. that there will be an option for others to use what is build on Leo.
I did my caveman stats analysis for splinterlands few weeks ago. my database knowledge is not that great but if i did it right, very very small amount of accounts registered through splinterlands end up ever doing anything on social part of the chain. it is now out of my head numbers but something like from 1000 accounts 5-6 end up using anything else than json transactions.
I need to check that out.
Logic tells me your analysis is correct. I would imagine most gamers are not into blogging or social activity of that sort, not with what is offered on Hive anyway.
So I have a feeling what you uncovered is not far off. That said, all those who are gaming on Spliterlands are being a part of the community and adding to the blockchain ecosystem. In fact, it is likely that Hive becomes more of a gaming mecca than it does blogging.
The gaming world is much bigger anyway.
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I agree with you on that. Anyone can create a tribe by paying a small fee and many have set up their tribe to let people post their blogs in those tribe. That's all. They have no plan, no intention to invest or develop further.
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maybe they can't, maybe they don't know how, maybe they don't have the money for it, maybe they don't have finance for it, i did nothing, so i am not judging.
I'm not judging either, I just said we can't expect them to do more as it hasn't been their intention.
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