Great article. I like HIVE but also look at the big picture through some charts produced by @arcange. hive statistics
34 accounts control 51% of all of the Hive in existence.
There were 2329 post with 25932 comments in the past day.
My take on the data is that we are a community of ~10000 active posters with a lot of bots voting on the post(300,000 upvotes per day).
My fear is that this is an echo chamber where we are just listening to what we want to hear in our little part of the metaverse.
Reality is that any one person can only consume 10-20 articles per day without data overload.
Transaction wise Splinterlands is the elephant in the room.
Crypto winter scares everyone but just hunker down and keep accumulating quality token and come out stronger on the other side.
Let me know what you think of my view of the data and if you have a different take on it?
!PIZZA
The numbers that you present are very interesting. I follow these reports regularly and what I like about them is that the spread between wales and dolphins/orcas is not getting much bigger. Also when I look at myself, I started as a red fish and managed to work myself up to dolphin and I believe I can reach orca status in a year or two. Even if this pyramid seems not so equitable, it's still possible to move from bottom to top in a given time. For me this is exceptional even if it's difficult to explain why :-).
From the transaction point of view, Splinterlands is dominating by far and it would be great if there were several players at that level.
When it comes to bot voting, I believe that this is necessary. First of all, we can't be online 24/7. In order not to lose on curation rewards, we need to make sure that we don't have voting power idle at 100%. This also makes sure that my votes profit the people I have set in my autovoting. That is also the reason why I believe relationships are so important on this blockchain. I will set my bots on people that I know and most people will do the same. However, when I'm around I will vote personaly on posts. The whole boting aspect gives me a freedom to chose how much I want to be on hive and I believe it's important.
When you say that we are in bubble, I agree with you. However these bubbles are everywhere where you go, especially in social media. There it is the algorithms of the platforms that define what you will see and they will show you the articles that you want to read. The AI's of these platforms realized that people stay longer when they get info that confirms them in their bubble. That's why I believe that these bubbles are everywhere. On hive, I have the feeling that I decide in which bubble I want to be :-). Thanks a lot of your great comment!