If you read the post above, it clearly was not about Gettr being better, or even Gettr at all, but the simple fact that Hive's primary selling point, and the niche it best fits, is as a freedom of speech platform - a place for people to come who are being censored off the other platforms.
I never say that. Its a bullshit platform like perler and the other ones before.
Unfortunately, those in charge of Hive have made sure, time and again, to do everything they can to drive away content creators, to punish creators putting out content that actually matters, and keeping the chain tiny, practically un-noticed, and always bleeding users.
I dont think that's the main reason.
hive is complex.
you cant recover passwords ( and I have some forums, I can tell you people love recovering passwords).
Hive rules are random
- and that's IMO the most important, you cant invite friends super easy. Like an invite link.
Personally, for me, i have some projects for years in mind for hive. But onboarding is too expensive, so I wait.
Also a reason nobody wants to build here ( with own money). Because you pay always twice.
marketing costs + onboarding costs.
The points you are making here are all valid and are ones that can and should be addressed through community collaboration - but doing that requires those with minimal stake to be rewarded for doing so and for those with more stake to be willing to use it.
I think some large stakeholders want the power they get from the HP but without the responsibility it gives them for improving the system. The bottom line is that without large stakeholders who are oriented to product design/development, we will mostly just get decisions that benefit only short term gains for them. There absolutely are some larger stakeholder with system development in mind, but there is a gap between that and the reality of what the product requires in order to thrive.
At present it is mostly the layer 2 projects that seem likely to improve onboarding but we aren't quite there yet. Alternatively, the community can work together with a shared vision to systematically identify and solve the problems - with stakeholders rewarding them along the way. Presently we lack coherence and focus as a group to achieve this and so it isn't really happening.
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