No engagement on this yet? It's been 9 hours. I'll be the first.

@unklebonehead, while I appreciate where your coming from, I do think some of this is off. I see Hive as an extension of Steemit. It's essentially the same platform without the bidbots. Most people who come to Hive come for the crypto. I think they leave because they show up with unrealistic expectations. A part of that is the fault of veteran Hive users who set up those false expectations with the false narrative, "Come to Hive, a Web3 paradise where you can earn crypto money for your content and no one can censor you." Truth is, as you say, most people won't ever earn much, but it isn't because they can't.

In some ways, Hive mirrors the real world. People have hopes and dreams. Some of those people realize their dreams and others don't. Why is that? Two reasons:

1. Luck
2. They play the game the way the game is designed

If you want to go to Hollywood and be a successful actor, you've got to fit into the culture. Hollywood has certain rules, many of them unspoken. The same goes for Washington, the business world, the world of poets, etc. If you go in shouting, "I'm going to take on the man and fight until I kill him," then you should expect some resistance. You're likely to be killed first. The man is bigger and more powerful than you are.

But if you show yourself eager to learn and develop a sense of perspective about the opportunity before you, there's a chance you could get lucky. I started out on Steemit in March 2018 under the name @blockurator. Soon after the hard fork, I lost the account keys. Boy, was I pissed! It wasn't because of the few hundred dollars I had earned in Hive Power that pissed me off. It was the potentially thousands of dollars worth of @splinterlands cards I had collected that I could have rented out or sold and earned a hefty reward on. I'm still pissed off at myself for being so careless.

I didn't join Hive again until December 2021. I've been on for two years and my account is now worth more than $1,500. That's only a start. Can you imagine what it might be worth five years from now?

Hive is not just a content creation platform. It's also a finance platform, and to make it work it helps to have some basic understanding of how finance works. That takes time, commitment, and a willingness to learn. And all of that is something that anyone can do.

One thing Steemit had was several groups of people who volunteered to help others learn how to navigate the platform. Hive has Hive Learners, but I don't know how effective they are. But that is very much needed to help new people to the platform learn about the culture and the opportunity.

None of this is to say that Hive doesn't have issues to solve. This post identifies a couple of them. I know people are leaving the platform as fast as they arrive, but that always happens during a bear run. During bull runs, people return hoping to make their bucks. Anyone who chases short-term gains hoping to succeed, whether it be crypto or fiat money, is likely to be disappointed. People who succeed at any endeavor, do three things:

1. Develop realistic expectations
2. Have a long-term plan
3. And be diligent and consistent in executing those plans

I don't know why Hive hasn't taken off yet. I don't know if it ever will, but I'm not sure there is wisdom in obsessing over it. Is Hive in danger of dying? I see a lot of positive things here, things that I don't see on other platforms that purport to be decentralized, Web3 havens.