The game eventually brought eyes over to Peakd but that booming period was a missed opportunity. Their announcement posts got a lot of views but there's a strong chance those people didn't realize they had an account to the site they were visiting.

Their governance posts encouraged people to engage. Came with a bad side effect however since to an outsider some of those debates were where they found out about the game. You want promotional material trending and internal memos and debates accessible but off to the side. Some crossed wires there at times.

Threads is neat. My following has no clue if and when I post there. My posts would get hundreds of views across all frontends. That's a lot of potential eyes hitting Threads but there's a wall in the way. I didn't put it there. So I only get the small portion of LEO views and LEO misses out on tapping into all these other markets people made for themselves.

I understand the need to be competitive but it's not "friendly competition."

Friendly competition is like a hockey team. Every forward wants to score the most goals but if they don't pass the puck to their linemates, the whole team loses.

At times you'll even see fans of splinterlands or something else come and shit on Hive saying if it wasn't for them this place would be nothing, or something along those lines. Not even realizing their bad attitude could be the first time someone else hears about the game or product and that bad attitude just contributed to a missed sale of sorts. Can't control that of course but it just shows it's not just the scattered apps missing the mark. It then creates a culture of unfriendly competition.

This trend will obviously continue since it's been going on for years with no signs of slowing down. Referring to that pool again, when you got moving water is stays fresh. The water here is going stagnant. And it's not because everything sucks. It's just not working together, or flowing.