I don’t think this is as bad of news as it might appear.
Steemit like all other social sites relies on the network effect. Currently there are just barely enough people on the blockchain to make things work in a small number of niches. As more sign ups come in there will be more people posting in a wide variety of niches that often don’t have an audience yet.
I think if you segmented the data by excluding bots, especially ones like tts that leave lots of comments, and by tag this might be more apparent.
There's also the calm after the storm. Obviously, with cryptomania that occurred end of last year into early this year, there were all the late comers to the game and they saw the mess that's on steem it. It's a bad thing if steem is trying to position itself as something that it wants to be, all the while it looks like something else entirely. The drop in organic comments certainly looks like a reduction of human interaction (for the worst), but that might just mean that the platform is going through troublesome times....enough trouble to need change. Better to hit rock bottom and rise than stay mundane.
"Steemit like all other social sites relies on the network effect. Currently there are just barely enough people on the blockchain to make things work in a small number of niches. As more sign ups come in there will be more people posting in a wide variety of niches that often don’t have an audience yet."
this is very important for people to understand.....