I am reading this post after having an online discussion with a new hive member (who joined via inleo.io) and he is fully confirming my thoughts after all these years I ve been here.
People do not want to put in extra efforts for extra gains. Most of the times they will prefer to post 1000 replies a day on x to get 100$ a month than come and learn an extra skill (i.e. by joining hive or even other platforms.
I have brought a few people here, I have talked to many many more. Friends, family etc.
I will mention @thetroublenotes (my favorite band) who took the giant (then) leap and joined - @learningpages who came over from writing in medium (9 months and still learning, but not giving up) - I hope that my friend @demos76 will manage to find more time into this and last but not least a very new friend @wrenard whom I met yesterday. @wrenard said it all in one comment which I am sharing below (with their permission)
I'm just a very curious guy who likes to try new things. And some folks said you'd get a nice return from leovoter which is also written on the premium page so I thought this is a good investment. You get the features it comes with plus extra bonus income if you are consistent.
(It's not exactly rocket science if you're a person who knows a little about crypto and Blockchain)
Already I have made almost half the 10HBD in votes in about a week so that's a good sign to me.
I'm just reading and learning from people on threads.
How I got to join.
I saw a link that said I could earn threading and blogging on a telegram channel and decided to dive in. To me i don't conclude something is a ponzi scheme until I have given it a short. 10 bucks is not that much of a big risk.
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I agree that we will soon see people fleeing in web3 platforms (or the ones that claim to be web3) - we see that Meta is also testing monetization. Maybe new dApps will be created. For sure we will welcome more users here too. I cannot safely predict how this will evolve, even if I have some things in mind.
I am glad that there are people who are still building, respect the platform and are discussing these subjects.
Thanks for you help and guidance over the past, probably two years, on Medium and now Hive. Your posts have introduced me to things I had never heard of before. !HUG
That's so true !