I reckon we go with the IKEA model, once people enter they can't leave until they've read everything and dumped all their savings into it.

But I dunno, I feel like this business model outlook is pandering too much to the idea that Hive will become some super viral silicon valley BS platform that dominates the news cycles every day.

Hive in its current form of longer content could potentially replace things like Medium, and evolve beyond it. It can be used as an educational access platform, ecommerce, research publication (replace sci-hub) and god know what else.

Not everything has to be TikTok, but that doesn't mean it can't be big. Problem more lies in that I still don't really see a direction, in the same way you would see one in Steemit days with an ambitious CEO at the helm. We can always hope somebody will make a new front end that does this and that, but nobody is making it happen.