Yeah it’s challenging to say the least but just think of how much better it is today than compared to 5 years ago before we had communities? Just throwing posts out to the wild based on tags and hoping to find someone who is monitoring the latest section? Lol.

We definitely have a challenge with users but I think it’s so evident that we’ve also got a problem with so many people siphoning rewards out of here, and are very frequently the same person or people doing it over and over. In some countries that’s their weekly salary and they try to fly under the radar as much as they can and once caught start over again. We’ve gotten better at spotting these people.. but there’s a lot of people who get caught in the crossfire I think, and it’s unfortunate. We can be our own worst enemy.. don’t get me started on the different front ends either :D

I think that for this reason, we should never aspire to be like Fakebook but we should aspire to be Hive. We are our own place, with a subset of users and can find our niche. The space has come a long way and is better than the other iterations out there like Steem and Blurt and whatever other forks have continued to exist but don’t really go anywhere. Yes the negative aspects are challenging but I think in the days we live in, giving the brain some exercise and challenge isn’t the worst thing! We need to prevent being soft as much as we can and that will eliminate some users but may bring us the best ones.

The privacy nightmare that is data farming from places like Fakebook.. ugh it frustrates me that more people don’t understand it or seem to care.