Well, it's a tough one, isn't it?

I guess we should start with "What stops exactly WHO from embracing Hive?"

90% of the time, "it's too complicated." Your average social media user doesn't give a rat's hindquarters about "blockchain" or "decentralization" or "censorship resistance" or "not being demonetized." The operate on a level of "log in with Facebook" ease-of-use and primarily want to share memes, pictures of their kids and swap recipes with aunt Martha. Hive would need a massive retooling to appeal to them; I mean on the front end. At the very least, it would have to include one-click KeyChain installation and one-click importing and integrating keys seamlessly into your chosen front end.

Some years back, I suggested a "Hive Light" that would allow people to create accounts on the spot with no complexity and give them access just to the parts of the Hive ecosystem accessible with your private posting key. Enough to "play," but not "hurt yourself." They could even get rewards and watch them build, but not ACCESS them till upgrading to a "full" account. The cost of "full" account creation then would either come out of their earned (but untouchable) HBD to date, or they'd have to fork over $5.00 (or equivalent) for the upgrade. From an industrial psychology perspective, it would actually work because those seriously invested in their own efforts would likely pay $5.00, and those who didn't could keep playing for free... OR their accounts would "go dormant" after six months from the last day of activity, and any unclaimed rewards could be sent to null, thereby actually being a partial inflation control measure.

Now, the remaining 10% would be your somewhat tech savvy gamers, long-time Wordpress/Blogger/Medium bloggers, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, YouTube creators, etc. who have at least a fundamental understanding of web content and monetization.

Biggest hurdle there: Hive content isn't "evergreen." 7 days, and you're done. People are used to creating a YouTube vid and and it keeps adding views and thus revenue... pretty much for as long as you promote it. Not much we can do about that... restructuring the rewards formulas completely is VERY unlikely to happen.

For that group, I think Hive has to be sold as an "in addition to," not an "instead of."

EXCEPT to the degree that we can pitch the sense of community, rather than the monetization. The only people I have managed to talk into actually using Hive agreed to because it had the look and feel of long defunct early 2000's soocial blogging venues." The rewards meant way less to them than the style of the venue.

It's a really complex issue, to be sure. Above all, I think we just have to be content with slow and gradual growth, rather than explosive growth. Although... if Hive suddenly went to $5.00, I'm sure we'd see activity triple or more...