Everything always comes down to money and power - let's not forget fucking ego....It all gets so tiring after a while, and is the one main reason why this is failing to entice new users here, to a large degree (or to even keep them, for that matter). One thing comes out of people's mouth's, and then their actions are totally different in practice. I thought people don't like politicians, but they sure as hell seem to act like them. The entire point of a decentralised chain, is to have NO LEADERS and promote individual and voluntary choices. But all I ever see is everyone telling others what they should say, or shouldn't say and do - and now, what I should post or shouldn't post (attached to that is a veiled threat of not making money - where it all comes back to in this merry-go-round). Then some are constantly pumping up engagement as the only thing that matters, while at the same time ignoring some people's comments when they try to engage with them, and then constantly engage with whales for votes and /or favour, but mostly for votes. I gave up on engagement long ago, because most of it is fake .
Why?
We live in another space of hypocrisy (just like the real world), that will never cease to exist, because of the very fist line in my comment.....what it all comes down to - always.
It rarely goes beyond that.
When you have a shift in power (a revolution of sorts) in any situation you always have the "new establishment" form that thinks THEY are the ones that deserve the accolades. That they are the ones that deserve the rewards.
I mean just take a look at the Bolshevik revolution where they overthrown their king.
Did the people (community) really take over or did Lenin and his cronies come and in and install the new ruling party?
This, ofc, is just an anecdote but the parallels are vivid.