I get what you are both saying to a point but we also all have different visions I guess. Yes the apps will bring people in over time but what do we do in the meantime while they get built, how do we attract devs and investors to get there? How do we keep the ball rolling until the full vision comes to fruition? I'm commenting based on my experience with my circle. I can't onboard anyone at all. They glaze over once they hear crypto or back up your wallet but always ask me for links to my stuff. Like you said tho, most don't want to sign up to comment and vote but they will if I post it in forums and groups. My point with this is those who want to join will as our articles float around mainstream media creating a constant trickle of new sign-ups without having to pay for a marketing team until we become like reddit or whatever. Some of the add revenue could even pay a marketing team and advertise more than one way.

Everyone is putting the cart before the horse, it will come in time yes but we have to look and live in the now and adapt to what is happening so we can get where we want to be. It is how I personally found it back in the day to begin with, so proof that it does work to onboard. So it serves both needs without shilling the platform or restricting it to crypto people only since that is very niche part of the population.

I noticed many big time bloggers and vloggers with big followings come and go from this platform since they can't grow their following, don't get support and can't earn via adds by bringing the content to their facebook page or other conventional social media. Since most platforms require ORIGINAL content, there is no incentive for them to keep using hive for them since they can get clicks on their stuff but crickets here so they leave and continue on blogpress or whatever because that's where they earn. There is enough non crypto content here that is relevant in the real world but hive is like this beautiful store that we all carefully handcrafted shelves full of stuff but everyday we keep the doors locked and wonder why our new products aren't flying off the shelf.