I liked your conclusion a lot :-). I would say that hive is probably not the place with the biggest growth and the most influencers but the fact that we enjoy spending our time on hive is actually proof that we don't need a big company to make sure that we enjoy it. We are doing a pretty decent job with hive I believe and the great thing is that it's up to us to make it a great place!
Hive is funny like that.
By most social media standards, hive would be a failure. But we chug on despite. Our small dedicated user base for the time being feeds itself pretty well.
And I sense a boost in growth coming.
Now the key is retaining as many of the newbies as possible ✊