"If they're not with promoting hive they aren't with hive" fuck off, nobody elected you as spokesperson for the ecosystem and if you really think its incumbent on the author to promote hive you certainly don't treat everyone else with the same kind of attitude. Plenty of trending that doesn't have much more eNgAgEmEnT than this and would not be worth a fucking penny compared to the effort to research and put together of this article instead of their taking pictures with dogs or posting a recipe, shit that means crap effort, and you'll never hound them to promote hive, but someone who posts actual news articles about what otherwise is censored, ignored or suppressed by the mainstream, well, they have an obligation to ferry traffic to a place where they will hound you for not promoting them, and has seemingly less engagement than just about all other "social media". Maybe the reason there's little to no engagement has to do with exactly how "the" ecosystem treats engagement, much like posting, as superficial, driven by greed, simply saying things to get votes, even with despicable self aggregating forced engagement initiatives, and the gatekeepers of the rewards then say "maybe they shouldn't be getting that much of it."
-abundance Theory, Shit for Brains in practice with Idiotic, Stingy and special rules for certain people, as they systemically tell their authors, their content creators, to move on.
How is this hounding? a 7$ downvote on something that was at 80 and still trending. I downvote other posts I find overrewarded too, doesn't help that this one gets consistently the same whale support, if you are that bothered by it and feel this deserves that much more rewards feel free to counter it with more stake or feeless tips.
A lot of other average users attempt to promote Hive, there's literally a L2 token incentivizing them as well cause as you say most content here is worth nothing if it doesn't get views from either inside or outside.
There are literal newbies with no stake getting more engagement on their posts than this account. Maybe cause 99% of other social media isn't about this topic and Hive is moving towards that after the initial anarchist/consdpiracy flood by dollarvigilante, and he is at least bringing in new users now through his new platform that uses Hive.
You should stop looking at trending and subscribe to communities or check your following feed, much better ux, something reddit taught me early and most people are aware of by now before they judge a platform based on whatever is trending.
Do you know anyone who browses youtube based on what's trending? Go take a look.
It's trending often and the only engagement they receive is nobodies crying over a couple downvotes.