That is true yet it is across the entire social media spectrum. If you look at the comments on YouTube, there are a ton but compare it to the views and number of accounts. There you get a video with hundreds of comments but it has millions of views.
Twitter is, of course, a different animal as is Facebook. I would surmise that the engagement on a Medium or Linkedin is similar to Hive.
The results are not great across the board. You would think that those who have a vested financial interest in the platform would take a different view of things.
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I see many small YouTube accounts with lots of comments and interactions. Rarely I also comment on YouTube, but I mostly only watch videos. Many people, who watch YouTube videos do not have a YouTube channel, so they cannot post comments, and they also cannot like or dislike a video, but their views add up to the views statistics. That would explain the lack of interaction on YouTube in some cases you mentioned, although the people I watch have a fair amount of interaction under their videos, even the smallest YouTubers. But when I see posts on the Hive blockchain with more than 100 upvotes, but 0 comments, nothing justifies the lack of interaction. Only explain. Most of those are probably automatic upvotes, and the people behind the caster accounts probably did not even saw the post.
In my life, I have probably watched thousands of YouTube videos but never left one single comment so I can identify there. However, for me to do so would only require me logging in with my gmail account which, at one time, I had like 8 of.
Nevertheless, I never felt the desire to engage there.
There is no doubt that Hive and the associated platforms could do better. Hopefully as we get some niche communities going, the people are more engaged since they will likely be passionate about the topic.
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