I appreciate you giving it another thought. Really. Think about it. Why do you or most of the people use Hive? To write a post, yes. It is fun to share your adventures or ideas for some people to read, on a platform where you are not the product.
Get an upvote? Obviously. It triggers very powerful reward path in our body and seeing a financial number attached to it makes it very powerful stimulus. Too powerful sometimes, i'd say so it triggers actions to game the system for financial profit and we all know this too well. Since day 1.
Other than that, who is using platform for the utility, i.e. information or entertainment? Quite few people frankly, people engage in circles and loop the reward pool. Just because it is so damn frustrating and not fun to search for new content or find information that you actually need. Or get the news about a topic as well.
Why do people keep mindlessly scrolling IG for HOURS! Because content is displayed and fed so effortlessly, algos feed you with content you like and they know better.
All other things are very important in Hive too, and you guys have been doing a great job so thank you for that a lot.
But as long as we do not have a very simple, one click, friction-less signup process and proper content discovery tools this machine is not going mainstream sadly. If those two things could be fixed platform would be much more friendly, if it is doable in reasonable amount of time of course. Other than that amazing work done by devs constantly, but we need those few simple tools for simple people to keep it alive...