DingleberryMcgee?!?
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Okay so it's no secret that user retention is important.
It's certainly not ideal that people up and ragequit.
It's very demoralizing to crab for years while BTC goes x4 and then hit a new local low.
That seemed to be a significant and noteworthy breaking point.
I think there is a good lesson of attrition here somewhere.
When we crashed very quickly to 25 cents (90%+ loss) morale was much better than now.
Time has been wearing our userbase down while hammered dogshit like WIF goes x100 and sits at rank 50 on the market cap. Meanwhile Hive has to pull out an x20 to get to rank 50. It's all so tedious.
Ive been thinking for a while now that the blogging thing might end up not being "the thing" you know.
Yes we came here because of it, and yes I still do it to a smaller extent, but, it's proven to be not enough to retain people. I suspect when Hive makes it, it will be more due to a layer sitting on top of it. I've made my peace with it at this point.
The only question that needs answering in that regard is how much value blogging has to the network compared to the value of other activities. It's funny to think about but if we had some trading gurus here that could actually make people money and stabilize the network at the same time that alone would be a huge boon to everyone. Of course consistently making money in this jungle is surprisingly difficult despite all the huge wins that end up just being lottery winners combined with survivorship bias.
Blogging has a lot of value if the bloggers are high value.
The biggest problem I see is trying to force blogging on everyone when in reality only like 1% of our population should be engaged in that activity. It's just a matter of infrastructure at this point and providing jobs to the users; creating a symbiotic relationship between the users and bandwidth of the chain. Much easier said than done I'm afraid, as there are no known working templates to copy... we have to invent them ourselves from scratch.