It's extremely difficult for me to understand why there are no more people who blog as a hobby here. But this topic is really a beaten horse. I think games will take the lead in Hive adoption. When the gamers realize they can blog about their games, they will do so and blogging on Hive will pick up.
Web 2.0 sucks as a place to earn. Quora, for example, allows people who answer questions to monetize that through adaptive paywalls. The more your answers get viewed and the more engagement you have the more the algorithm will pay you. In my observation, monetizing activity is about 100x-1000x easier on Hive than on Quora if you apply yourself to the same extent.
I think that boils down to Hive being a new platform where the user base is not very well established, yet. There is lots of money being distributed. In contrast, a platform like Quora has hundreds of millions of users to fight over subscription fees and ad revenue. Building a following on a platform like that that already has tens of thousands of high-quality writers is really difficult and time-consuming.
It's simply the case that on Hive one still has considerable early adopter advantage.
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