Most of the people I am aware of are just slowing down, taking breaks, etc. Some that may be leaving may be fairly new. I personally only know of one myself that seemed to be doing well, got angry, and left. Then I found out recently he has occasionally been posting on his daughter's account... but apparently had a blow up there yesterday similar to the one he had on his own before he sold his account.
So yeah... I hear we are losing people, but I haven't seen the stats myself.
Minds only announced the Minds Token I think this last week, and then CEO was on Infowars yesterday, so that traffic may begin to happen.
Though if people are really doing well they likely will continue to post here, but also post to Minds.
I am not leaving Steem, but I am thinking of posting some of my posts to Minds as well to see what happens. Mainly the @newsagg headlines. I don't make much making those, but that isn't why I do them. So if it reaches and is useful to more people that is good to me.
We shall see. I haven't gotten to that point yet.
styxhenhammer666 was pushing it too..
Steemit didn't make as much of presence when they launched... (infowars? )
Considering they were the first, their after launch 'project speed', does leave you wondering.....
Though having messed with minds.com quite a bit today I do think the steem ecosystem is better than minds. The dlive.io platform is pretty impressive too.
I'll continue to post to minds, but I don't think it is as good as steem. It looks better in many ways than steemit, and in other ways I prefer steemit.
It does have a hell of a lot more views though. ;)
Bitchute is really a hit and miss and dlive.io kicks its ass badly, but bitchute has a lot of users.
Though one of the main infowars restreamers Ron Gibson switched to dlive.io today on @rongibsonchannel and it is kicking ass compared to bitchute.
Good things could happen for steem regardless of what Steemit, inc. does simply because things on the steem blockchain actually work quite well in general.
I will have a scout - but it's very hard to switch methods....and easy to discount to because of the lack familiarity..
(for me anyway!lol)
I looked at the 'Minds" page a little while back, I doubt I will join until they make some changes even then not likely unless steem blockchain has a huge meltdown and becomes completely unusable. One of the nice things about the seeming slowdown is fewer spam account followers.