It was the current price, more or less (was a rough estimate, not a precise calculation). But even at lower prices, these numbers are still terrible.

If we had 10-15x the users, it still wouldn't be great, but it would be better. More important would be whether that 10-15x was achieved via a sustainable growth trend pointing toward even more users, and that would probably be fine even with the current numbers. But that's not the case, growth has never been achieved, and that is the bigger problem. High cost without achieving growth.

the results of one year since we got a fresh start

Basically no growth in that year apart from what is easily attributable to price rise (and will go away if the price goes down). Even that is pretty small (went from about 10k to about 15k).

BTW, that 15k "active accounts" includes bots (spam bots, vote bots, etc.) and also accounts that just vote or maybe occasionally comment, but don't post content and don't earn anything. (It doesn't include users of non-social apps or those who just trade on exchanges and transfer funds.) So the actual cost per human posting user is even significantly higher.

The social is where we can find our niches and form communities that can eventually transform into projects .. you will see the content creators as an important asset that generates more value than they extract.

Well some do, I already agree on that point. But unfortunatley many don't, and many engage in opportunistic behavior that makes matters worse, such as posting complaints and other "content" that isn't ever going to attract anyone, and then getting upset when it gets downvoted after being autovoted or stupidly voted (large "curation" accounts that are really voting close to random to earn curation rewards).

If I see creators who producing content that attracts a growing audience at cost that is reasonable for the scale of what is going on (not hundreds of dollars for posting a few photos day after day, etc.), I'll rarely if ever downvote that, and when I do downvote excessive rewards, it helps give some oxygen to the rest by reducing, even if only a little, the rampant drain that continues to make it hard for the actual creatives and community builders to get anywhere.