RE: Early Week through Adrian's Lenses (3 - 7 May 2025)

great points all around. I think one thing we also need to understand is the social media metrics that exist as it stands outside the web3 space- only 2% of people actually attempt and stick with content creation. Less than 10% engage/interact in any way. The internet is made of lurkers. This is the attention of the attention economy. That doesn't mean that things built on or with Hive can't power the experiences for those lurkers, or that building social media and other things isn't worthwhile or doesn't have a market share! 10% is actually still a LOT of people- more than enough to make social media one of the most important industries in history; but we have to extrapolate these numbers to the things we build, also.

If most users won't continually create content, then as much or more of our focus needs to be on keeping the engaged... well, engaged! We can't assume that everyone who gets rounded up and cajoled/strongarmed/enticed into joining up, even with their community, will actually be wholly motivated by these types of actions or the benefits of rewards and blockchain either. So, much of what we have to start doing comes down to creating good spaces to hang out in, building around culture creation (the vibes of groups of people in general, not just the genetic or geographic aspects), and then also understanding how that stuff interacts with even those who will literally never sign in, click like, or write a comment. They're still part of the puzzle!