This is definitely one of the many weaknesses that Hive has. Many people here are only interested in money, in earnings, they post anything and barely read anything.

I do my best to read everything, or at least most of people's posts. I think it's even a matter of respect to comment on something related to the post, so only comment if you've actually read the post and thus have ideas and content to respond. But often people don't do that; it's just vague answers.

Regarding external traffic to Hive, I've been doing my part. I don't know if you follow me on X, but I've been putting more effort into my posts there, talking about Hive's strengths, our qualities, and I've also been posting on Scribble Network, Farcaster (when I remember), I publish on Publish0X, and all these places have links to my posts here on Hive.

In my opinion, what Hive lacks is a massive focus on microblogs, photos, and videos; it needs to keep up with what's happening in the world. Facebook is dead in Brazil, and what's been booming here all the time are photos and reels from Instagram and TikTok, so we urgently need to catch up with that.

Writing texts, reading texts, content in blog format (long posts) is dying, that's the truth. Consumption today is short, eye-catching texts, photos, and videos; the world is dominated by quick dopamine hits, that is, short-term pleasure.