Yeah but you're missing the point I'm making man. That the GLUE to any platform is how those people stay connected to the human networks that they become a part of.

Discord is a MUST for this Hive thing to facilitate social. So then clearly this tech falls short of user retention because it's a very small crowd that find that appealing. It's an embarrassment to claim web3.0 as superior yet this tech doesn't even consider connectivity a necessity.

So no matter what "dapps" and tribes people within this small ecosystem create, it's just not ever going to exist beyond a small group of loyalist. Because really for every 1 user that Hive gains it loses at least 15 that come, look, try, and say NOPE.

So to make the claim that hiveio makes, and many others hold as the mantra of this tech:

Join the revolution.

Actually becomes laughable because what is actually revolutionary here? Tokens for blind voting on content?

Come on man at some point people need to face reality. When the system is unable to retain a large audience there's just never going to be the significant growth that everyone hopes for.

And that 2017-18 boom was heavily due to token value. Had the system provided the social tools (the glue) to keep human activity ON HIVE (STEEM) then it's likely that the network effect you outline would have eventuated and this thing would truly be the globally recognized as revolutionary web3.0 next gen social.