Sadly I have to agree on that. Its a vicious circle: the more people leave, the more other people follow to leave, since the financial motivation is gone as well. Just as a normal social media platform Hive is not appealing enough, compared with the huge existing ones. The block chain agrument alone is not enough.

Fortunatly I did not sell my HBD because of the huge interest rate. Now half of the account value (currently about $450) is from HBD. The Hive part keeps shrinking in value towards zero.
But never mind, my little silver stack has made up for that - more than just that, in fact.