To be brutally honest I didnt expect any engagement on this post. After being here for almost 4 years of getting the same auto upvotes on every post. I'm completely used to zero engagement. About the only real engagement on posts I've ever gotten were if I boosted the post on Ecency or posted a tutorial video on 3Speak in their community. The tutorials usually get several comments and some pretty massive upvotes. But I've never been the kind of person that creates content for others. I do it purely for myself and my enjoyment. I either do that or I sit and talk to myself a lot. Lol.

I understand that Hive, as with other social blockchains, are inherrently crypto specific, topic wise. That is to be expected. But I and several others have been screaming that in order to attract more people on board we need to appeal to different people of different walks of life. But very few are actually doing that. They are instead only attracting more of the same. Increasing the amount of single topic content.
Attracting more of the same is only going to make that cycle contine and it will evenutally shrink because of loss of interest by new users. Hive is slowly turning into a single topic content platform. This is my #1 concern for Hive.

Yes Hive does have a ton of positive things right here right now. We have things other platforms are only dreaming about. But they arent being used because there is nobody here to use them.
The best ananlogy I can think of is the car manufacturing companies. We are building brand spanking new electric cars with some really great and amazing technology.
But no one wants to buy them because:
1 The cost of owning & operating it is too high.
2 The average person doesnt understand the technology behind it.

1. The same creation of the technology is taking the fun out of driving it. Because it will end up driving its self. Thats just boring to most people.

My whole overall point is that we are still doing and saying the exact same things over and over and not getting any results. We are shootin ourselves in the foot going in the same direction as we have year after year after year. It's time to make a hard right or left cause this is the wrong road.

We are almost to the point of needing to make a drastic change and we need to at least talk about these things before we get to the point when everybody wakes up and looks around saying "where did everybody go?" This way maybe they can look back and ask themselves if this might be why no one is here.