I am reading this post after having an online discussion with a new hive member (who joined via inleo.io) and he is fully confirming my thoughts after all these years I ve been here.

People do not want to put in extra efforts for extra gains. Most of the times they will prefer to post 1000 replies a day on x to get 100$ a month than come and learn an extra skill (i.e. by joining hive or even other platforms.

I have brought a few people here, I have talked to many many more. Friends, family etc.
I will mention @thetroublenotes (my favorite band) who took the giant (then) leap and joined - @learningpages who came over from writing in medium (9 months and still learning, but not giving up) - I hope that my friend @demos76 will manage to find more time into this and last but not least a very new friend @wrenard whom I met yesterday. @wrenard said it all in one comment which I am sharing below (with their permission)

I'm just a very curious guy who likes to try new things. And some folks said you'd get a nice return from leovoter which is also written on the premium page so I thought this is a good investment. You get the features it comes with plus extra bonus income if you are consistent.

(It's not exactly rocket science if you're a person who knows a little about crypto and Blockchain)

Already I have made almost half the 10HBD in votes in about a week so that's a good sign to me.
I'm just reading and learning from people on threads.

How I got to join.
I saw a link that said I could earn threading and blogging on a telegram channel and decided to dive in. To me i don't conclude something is a ponzi scheme until I have given it a short. 10 bucks is not that much of a big risk.

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I agree that we will soon see people fleeing in web3 platforms (or the ones that claim to be web3) - we see that Meta is also testing monetization. Maybe new dApps will be created. For sure we will welcome more users here too. I cannot safely predict how this will evolve, even if I have some things in mind.

I am glad that there are people who are still building, respect the platform and are discussing these subjects.