Yes, that is because the big whales on this platform are not trying to entice influencers to bring people here. It used to be that a ton of people on alt media would give formerly steemit and now hive plugs to bring their audience here because content creators were rewarded for posting here and getting an audience here. Now, no one ever talks about HIVE and no Buzz means a small number of bees. Until the people who decide what trends on here start upvoting people that draw people here from other platforms this place, though awesome will continue to lose numbers of users. There is very little content that is worthwhile being posted to this platform and very little that is unique to the platform. I can find photos on many platforms and I can find a ton of online games that have crypto associated with them. The future of this platform should be replacing YouTube and facebook by supporting content creators that can bring their audience away from those places and to hive.
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Its easy to say, replace Facebook, Youtube, Twitter ... in reality that is a very hard thing to do, and even if someone succeed it takes years/decades .... how can Hive compete with youtubers, where the top creators literally get millions paid per month... on Hive the top authors are paid a few thousands ... Hive offers different type of web architecture for community buildings and maybe in time we will get there ...
Who are the top authors getting paid thousands? I do not recognize any of them being talked about on any other platform which means the top authors on HIVE are not doing what they are being paid to do. They should be driving traffic to this site by producing content people talk about.
For instance I post my videos to Youtube, Dlive, Bitchute, Odysee, 3Speak, and Rokfin. I get thousands of views per video and I post the show notes, all the source links for the show exclusive to HIVE which drives traffic here. I have brought many people to this platform and inspired many content creators who have made youtube channels and gotten literally millions of views combined.
How does the HIVE whales support my activity on here as one of the longest members, someone who has been here since it was steemit? They ignore my posts and upvote...
Photography content. Which is not unique to HIVE nor is it Unique in any way. The top ten posts trending on any day on HIVE are for photos. People are not going to leave mainstream platforms to go look at people's photography. That is boomer nonsense they can get on Facebook or any other platform. They come to places like Steemit when it was big, and to Hive hopefully to see political content they cannot get elsewhere. Look at Rumble, they are killing it. 3speak is a decent platform but it has no livestreaming.
If HIVE could build and support an app that replaces YouTube, having all the same features. HIVE could bring in millions upon millions of users. Or this platform can remain a fringe crypto platform mainly for playing a single game splinterlands, which is a great game and idea, but this platform could be so much more.