The list is pretty extensive for sure. Obviously there are a lot of people who drop off YouTube as well but with HIVE there is a decent sized learning curve to know what is exactly going on here. There have been a lot of positive things but it is tough to really get it to a level where it can flourish. Personally I have always felt the front ends should have ads which get rejected back into earnings.
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Ads are a nice revenue generator. Though it is also a bit disturbing. I do like the absence of ads. Leo started to include some ads which I don't like too much. But that said, I can get used to them :)
It definitely is not easy to go around HIVE and understand how it works. I do feel most to all UIs don't consider too much the newbie. They shall all provide guidance to support the newbies. To introduce the newbies to all the tools that are required to start understanding HIVE and to be able to deal with HIVE. I believe a big missed opportunity.
What Steemit did before the HIVE fork was put ads on stuff when people weren't logged in so if someone tripped across it organically through searching on Google it would show ads but people who were logged in wouldn't see it. This was generating revenue but Steemit Inc was keeping that to pay expenses and it wasn't being used to pump back into the community. I think the gaming stuff is really good and if there were multiple reasons for people to be soaking up HIVE that would be a big deal. Overall I like the ecosystem but I feel like it is a matter of time before someone builds a similar platform on a chain that is EVM compatible that has 0.5 Second Block Times like the EOSIO software or 0.4 Second Block Times like Solana and suddenly there is more existing code for the DeFi application and other stuff going on.
I like the ecosystem but at times it seems to just be feeding a very small number of people. We can say they have risked the most or are doing the most but unlike Proof Of Work mining where you can deploy tons of new hardware and engage in this system it is more of a club that you have to be accepted into. Someone could say a person could drop bag here and level up but there is still a good chance a person won't be accepted into the club.
one needs to know its ways, and get a bit lucky as well along the way.
curators from curator teams are not necessarily following fair and strict guidelines as they should. some other curator teams are good, some are less good.
some others with large stakes are not helping to evolve HIVE, reward distribution etc. some others do.
I feel something needs to change again from the tech side of things, or the governance side of things, before a more positive culture will start again. we go in waves over the years. we change something to post/curation rewards, we see the positive flow and after some time it seems the majority is falling asleep again.
HIVE is not only blogging/social service but also a general purpose chain. the latter lacks smart contract support to get picked up. integration support to dApp owners is too little, and too difficult to identify who to contact, where to search and all. I think this is the downside of not having a team. I was hoping we could've created workgroups per topic, with some election system and supported by the community. tool we need for this and all. but somehow nobody is picking this up. HIVE lacks vision, strategy, tactics and execution of those tactics. thats the bottom line I think. somehow the token is still quite high up in the rankings, not sure how, but that is at least still the advantage and keeps peeps blogging.
I feel like once people know this system there are enough people still willing to try to earn yield off this system and then there are those playing Splinterlands and that has become popular enough to people coming over here if they are looking for games to play.
It's tough. There were advantages and disadvantages of the premise of Steemit Inc working on stuff vs the way things are now. It's a pretty impressive system but I am actually surprised another group didn't come in and develop this same premise except with the full ecosystem and smart contract capability natively. Like built this on Solana, Polygon, or the EOSIO software with EVM support.
That being said there is over 6+ years of development that exists here so it would be a ton of work to try to catch up to what is here.
Owww maybe when someone decides to bring a social network to some other chain, that could be KOINOS.
If the KOINOS eco-system, community and team play their cards right, it has the potential to play ball with the big guys/chains of today.
Smart contracts, free tx on base layer (the RC system of HIVE but different implementation that doesn't require to lock a lot of tokens, but just enough tokens for a transaction). No proposal systems. Generated base chain tokens only for those who run the network. A different implementation of PoW/PoS/DPos, a combo taking the best of all these by Proof-of-Burn. The community already created one of the dev languages (typescript) and included by the team in the final product/chain, a wallet, a DEX with a similar/same look/feel as to what we all know from the DEX services around the top chains.
I do believe in HIVE still. Though I believe either it may get its next boost by more popular Splinterlands, and/or by what 3Speak is trying to do, andf/or by something new that nobody knows about right now. KOINOS will get a boost because it is much more similar to a general-purpose chain to HIVE (HIVE currently is a social networking chain, with the token distribution to content, something I believe HIVE shall get ride of. Content rewards shall be 2nd layer). I wish both will become a major success 🙃