It is a well-known rule in internet culture that 90% of the culture are consumers and, at best, only 10% actually create content. I haven't checked the stats for Steemit lately but that's what it has always been since I started and has been even before Steemit existed and I don't see that changing anytime soon. That's why content creators like movie studios, broadcasting networks, internet providers, and publishing companies make the big bucks and the rest of the population pays to consume it.
In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1-9-90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content. source
that's a good fact. I wonder if there is a way of checking how many accounts are actually active and how many are bots would be an interesting fact
There are people posting about that but I can't remember who. It's hard to keep up with all the stat posts. But since the start, it's been about 10% of the people who sign up stay active. Pretty much the same as most sites, especially sites that require you to put some effort into creating content. Video sites have the highest retention rates.