It's probably inadvisable for me to use Hive more. Srsly, like 4 out of 5 doctors would recommend some kind of intervention.
Still, the assault on comment economics was utterly bass ackwards, and as several have pointed out (I literally read all the comments prior to posting this) engagement is incapable of being over promoted.
I certainly am atypical. I hear at least once a week that some comment I made deserves to be a post. I'm not even seeking to benefit me personally by recommending making commenting the most rewarding part of using Hive (although, I'd get rich if it was).
Economies are inescapable features of societies. Society depends on engagement. Like, critically depend on folks interacting and engaging with each other on topics of interest, and without that you're left with a fractured populace seeking that. This is one of the reasons Steem had such poor user retention. The financial incentives are geared towards legacy economies, rather than fully diving in to the novel potential Hive has to incentivize society as legacy economies die.
You'll note legacy economies are actually, literally dying as you read this.
Break the wall preventing folks from engaging with each other, and most of the hard work of retaining users, ~10 times more financially rewarding than onboarding new users, is done.
God forbid you find some way to do this. I'm pretty sure the captivity we endure today would become habit for some, like me, and sales of clothing would suffer as a result. What? The only clothing I've worn in the last week was socks. Gotta keep my feet warm. Mmmmm toasty toes.
The most important thing Hive can do to increase the momentum it presently can capitalize on is to grow the community of nudists that wear socks, by best rewarding comments of all it's financial mechanisms. Pretty sure the current global lockdown, destruction of legacy economies, and the present pump are a time limited offer that guarantees massive onboarding if better engagement can be encouraged.
Socks or not. Don't care really. I'm not a foot guy.
Edit: Oh, none of this matters unless Hive can be secured from the Sybil attack that took out Steem. It's important to note that Warren Buffet made more by having lunch with Sun Yuchen that it cost Sun Yuchen to take over Steem.
Seriously. It's trivially cheap and easy to destroy the ability of folks to speak forthrightly and honestly here. It's only a matter of time until the funding and the motivation align to do it.
Something besides money needs to mitigate PoS to prevent exactly what happened to Steem from happening to Hive. Honestly reflect for a moment. How much cash would it take to separate you from your accounts and stake?
Was that more or less than Sun Yuchen spent for lunch with Warren Buffet?