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.