How can Threads and microblogging break out of LEOverse though?

If you haven't noticed, most devs in Hive now believe 'rewards for bloggers' needs to die.

Essentially saying, Hive needs to evolve and attract brighter minds that can gamify all kinds of things beyond just people writing about their mediocre lives. Thus short text content on HIVE doesn't look likely to ever take off.

A project here needs to be robust. SplinterLands is THE BENCHMARK. It's the true success story of Hive because it attracts and retains users. It does well to both take their money, and reward them back. The development of a multitude of ways to do that is then WHY it continues it's growth and remains sustainable.

Khal spoke of synergy on HIVE but then doesn't even practice it. LEO would be better placed to gain users if for instance started a push for content through 3Speak shorts and rewarded (jointly with 3Speak) micro video marketing.

LEO would also attract users already in SplinterLands if it for example had a CUB card in play and therefore generated participation through both the gaming element on HIVE and through art contests. This is then how your CUB evolves to be like a mascot and 'money generator' ... rather than what that poor CUB exists as now... a static image of a somewhat malnourished cat.

The world of Hive and many of it's projects need reimagining. Else they just exist as what @theycallmedan referred to on a past CCT... as 'zombie projects' ... which coincidentally, his Ragnarok game is one of them. Rather embarrassing.

Hive just can't attract big money and big userbase with these go-nowhere-for-years projects. If HF26 doesn't shake things up then there's just not going to be much here for the rest of the crypto world.

Sure projects will keep on... but to a tiny audience. And if rewards for blogging dies... I bet someone else comes through and takes away the predominantly Latino users that sustain Hive activity (other than CUSTOM_JSON).