I appreciate you sharing your experience here Arcade this is a valuable insight. Though it is a rant, I would agree with your points given.

3 days intro?

I did mine for five minutes or less. HAHAHA
this has been a pun in the community for an intro that should not be done.

Pinoys are being taught to cater to whales and large centralized curators.

This one's kinda sad as Pinoy's were thought to follow the huge HP guys, with the people that I onboarded I never told them to do so. I just informed them to be active with the community that they want to belong to and make meaningful connections within if possible. This creates extra legwork but who cares, we are being monetized for such activities, and comparing it to other social media platforms this one's better.

As shared by Witty and Adam short and long-form content doesn't matter to us as long as it doesn't plagiarize or spam the community. One or two posts a day is enough perhaps.

Retention is hard as people come and go as we all have different agendas for joining here but overall if a person is not rewarded properly, especially the new guys, they become more demotivated to use this platform. ( We experienced zero upvotes and zero cents back then in a post so we are kinda used to small rewards)

Some are also afraid of interacting as they are not fluent in English. Hence as a way to help increase the retention of the users, I tried my best to have the Tagalogtrail community be active so that when new guys try to join, there's a huge chunk of content written in English and Spanish, they will have at least a space wherein they can freely write in our native tongue without any restrictions or whatsoever. (The downside is the upvotes as I don't have the HP to support it I am relying on HivePH's bot for upvoting some of the contents for extra reward).