There are a lot of people, largely due to the monetization, who expect tit-for-tat here. This is one of the reasons, imo, we don't have very many users. Many posts are written just to get a post out, not because someone has something to say, and ergo they don't have any actual readers who are interested, since the author themselves was not actually interested. On a normal social network, there are more consumers than creators, and here it's the opposite. When I tell people about Hive, inevitably they say "I wouldn't know what to write about" because they perceive it as not another social network, but get-paid-for-blogging. I try and tell them you can just read and vote and comment like usual, but they're not interested in the content here. So when people here aren't getting a lot of attention, they get mad ("I commented on your stuff why didn't you return the favor") in a way they never would on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok or whatever. Nobody comments on like, a Charlotte Dobre video and then gets mad, "Charlotte, why didn't you comment back??"
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Spot on! It's weird how the expectations are very different here.
If Hive could become somewhat like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and whatnot, where people comment on stuff, they would automatically get some kind of attention.
And the difference between YouTube and Hive would then be: get paid for commenting.