Some of my Hive posts are just cookie cutter things, like my Hive Goals posts. Others I put more work in than I should. My haiku translation posts, for instance. There is a lot of expertise in those posts. The translation, explaining all the cultural references, following them along to previous Japanese or Chinese poems, etc. And those posts... get almost no interaction. In fact, my cookie cutter posts usually get much more interaction. I kind of don't mind, to be honest. I mean it would be nice to get some good interaction, but also I kind of write them for myself, because I am interested in all this stuff.
But still, it points to a few problems on the reader side. 1) Readers can't find things that they want to read. Hive needs a better way to organize things and a better way to expose things we might be interested in. 2) Many readers can't be bothered. They only half read articles, comment quickly in order to gain attention, then they go and use AI to quickly make a shit post to collect autovotes. We have very very few read consumers on Hive.
I agree, very few actual readers. I myself skip through posts to the meat and I listen to posts I want to fully consume.
It's not easy putting alot of effort into a post knowing it'll not get much traction while knowing you could bang together a 20 min post for some reward so fair play to you 😁