It was DBuzz that got me hooked into Hive. When @shainemata first introduced me to Hive the two things I understood was DBuzz is like Twitter and Hive.blog is like blogging. When he tried to talk to me about PeakD, Ecency, LeoFinance, Actifit, etc., it was overwhelming.
But microblogging like I had done for years on Twitter and blogging like I had done on my personal blogs for years. That I understood.
Had those early interaction not been so engaging and rewarding I'm not sure what my experience would have been like. Let's face it, Hive and Web3 in general isn't easy to understand. The terminology and ecosystem takes time to learn and understand. So those early days where a slightly confused me could do two simple things and experience the difference from traditional blogging and microblogging. It was huge!
Making it easy and relatable is key to not just adoption, but staying power. How many people onboard and then fizzle out after a very short time? Too many. We need some simple and easy to understand dApps that feel familiar and are exciting (and rewarding) enough to keep doing.
It's still an awful onboarding experience. Account keys absolutely kills us. I've tried to get a few people recently, they lasted a day and gave up because there was zero reason to stick around.