You're so naive.
IT'S IRRELEVANT who is the product or who is the beneficiary of the content.
ATTENTION RETENTION IS THE GOAL EITHER WAY. FOR ABSOLUTELY EVERY PLATFORM/SYSTEM.
What type of sustainability is there if a platform cares little about it's traffic?
Why not just make every account GUEST ACCOUNT then. What is even the point of retaining anyone?
That's precisely my point in all this. That the only thing which Hive users are able to contribute.. CONTENT needs more system tools in order to have interconnectivity. In order to get more readers to stay on HIVE. To then benefit those very people. THE CONTENT CREATORS.
That simple implementation would create a cycle where TRAFFIC STAYS ON HIVE. With the possibility of then capturing that traffic into more CONTENT CREATORS or READERS which then equals...
wait for it...
GROWTH!
Or is web3.0 not about growth?
Anyway I respect your input but these points I'm making aren't new discoveries. It's the standard practices of any system/platform and the uptake of them. The beauty of web2.0 is also that what works is there for all to see. Just because some Hive user makes a cute graphic claiming Hive is superior and THE REVOLUTION won't mean anything if the actual product clearly isn't.
IF some menial links are the price for some entity to not track me, so be it. I don't need some algorithm to suggest me links, I am a big boy I can find content to read on my own.
You can create your own feed by following content creators, better yet you can follow tags. Not being familiar with the features of the interface or the platform is not an excuse to call it inferior.
Consuming content and traffic does not equal growth on Hive. That is your fundamental error. A user who does not anything but reads on Hive is essentially adding no value to the platform.
ATTENTION RETENTION is not an important measure on Web 3.0. IF an account is not transacting then it adds nothing of value to the platform. Even if they are spending their whole time reading here if they do not transact it does not matter.
I repeat, ATTENTION RETENTION does not matter, if the user does not transact on the blockchain. WEB TRAFFIC does not matter if it does not end up in a transaction on the blockchain.
Those measures are important for a web 2.0 site, but not a web 3.0 system. YOU are thinking with a web 2.0 mindset, on a web 3.0 platform. THAT is your problem.
ATTENTION RETENTION and TRAFFIC are important measures to Advertisers on WEB 2.0. They are the revenue stream of a website, that is the reason why they are important on Web 2.0.
There are no advertisers on HIVE, so those measures are unimportant. And you have trouble understanding basic if statements it seems like. IF a user only reads and does not transact they do not matter, what matters if they read and transact. SEE there is a whole fucking difference there. THAT is the important measure, that is how you measure if the platform is growing.
A user not transacting means; they do not vote, they do not comment, they do not engage in any way with the blockchain, they just read. When you are voting it is a transaction, when you comment it is a transaction, when you post it is a transaction.
Tell me, if a person opens up peakd every day, reads tons of posts every day but never opens a wallet, do they add value to the platform?
ATTENTION RETENTION means time spent on the site, stop trying to change its meaning to whatever you like it to be.
USER RETENTION and ATTENTION RETENTION are two different things, you do not even know the correct terminology, and it is clear you have not seen the stats as Hive is growing. The number of posts and comments are increasing, the number of votes is increasing and the number of new accounts created is increasing.
You say it is shrinking but the stats say otherwise.