It seems that quite many fall off after our "incubation period" ends, either some join just for the rewards or other curation projects/stakeholders don't properly curate them or a mix of both. As mentioned ~15% retention rate so far with 1923 total onboarded accounts and 289 still active.
Maybe we could ask @demotruk for another cohort/activity look like the couple posts I linked to in the post, those are always very interesting!
I've been looking at content produced by onboarding initiatives, and it might help to transition that faster to organic content, that is still curated by the onboarding program for some interim period.
Beyond a point structured or deliberately themed content may not be benefiting the individual as a writer.
Ideally our writing becomes compelling enough to consume in the absence of any reward structure.
I haven't fully developed or articulated this thought, but that may be part of the retention piece.
I think that would be a good idea. It might at least give you an idea of what you can change or how you can grow the program. It's a much better attitude to have than arguing with the data :)