Sure, one could argue. But clearly in this scenario, we could see how one side of street wasn't being used as much as the other. Steem was dying out long ago. One my final real posts on Steem, when I was concerned about the change and looking for honest feedback. part of my problem was I was uncomfortable with the sudden change and knew (predicted/educated guess)I'd be losing at least half if not more of my consumer base if I stayed on Steem. I was right, plus many old followers still haven't shown up to Hive yet. I'm sure many here have noticed that.
And yes, of course variety and the success of all these branches always leads back to the trunk, then onto other branches. The more successful acts we have, the better chance of it trickling down. That's why I'm always pushing for big names to actually bring consumers when they come rather than doing what they usually do, which is take the rewards but have little to no engagement. They could bring one paying follower with new money and eventual skin in the game, that follower supports the big name, then has nine other daily votes to use.
I suspected and assumed that many people would remain active on Steem for their 13 week powerdown or close to it - with 4 weeks now, that timeframe shortens again. Many will stay on both, but I don't see many of substance staying exclusively on Steem.
This has been the downfall of pretty much any "name" that has arrived from other places - they fail to build, expecting algorithms to find them because, "Don't you know who I am?"
The activity was of low quality and the atmosphere was quite stale. Plenty of reruns. Toxic politics. I lost count of how many times I was told something like, "Go back to where you belong," if I left a comment. No place for me. Now it's paid votes again and those only make me angry, so they can have it, and shove it up their asses. I had to stay true to my word though. I said I'd leave once I saw censorship. Could have earned maybe $1000 in that time but what I believe in is more valuable to me I guess.
LOL... unfortunately, yes, so true. Starstruck curators with high value votes hand them the big bucks, they take it, eventually run. Every damn time. If people didn't bend over backwards for them, they'd simply say the platform is broken and useless. Not one, over the span of many years, was ever able to do some simple math, then convert those numbers into encouraging thousands of their following to stake tokens instead of donating, and vote, daily. I don't want to talk about that though. Right now the push is to focus on onboarding new content creators by the thousands rather than consumers by the thousands, so this is the part where I retreat to the shadows and watch.
For the most part yes, but for me as a creator, nothing much changed - as a consumer, it did.
At least in the past, people complained on those posts, now there isn't even a comment. =D
I probably got somwhere around that, as did the curators who voted - they are nearly all on Hive from what I have seen. If they are going to vote anyway, they might as well vote to support Hive.
I think most believe it is the logical order of things - but that is not how most sites start. people start consuming before the "real" creators come in, as they need an audience before it is worthwhile.
We were talking about fastfood places today, in the city I lived, there were 7 McDonald's (at the time) and there was no possibility for more franchises to open. There were 105-110 thousand people in the city, and they need at least 15,000 per location on average before they will grant another in that region of Australia.