Talking about Hive specifically here, social media people use it for fun, or at least quick and thoughtless and between the high standards, and authoritarian rules it often starts to feel like work instead of fun.
It helps us attract and also lose some very specific users. Busy middle income people don't have time to build an audience and don't have or need the patience to put up with the politics.
People who consider themselves authors will stay, because they love to write, but we certainly do limit our marketable base, by making it hard.
I know threads is coming and might normalize things a bit, but until threads I consider Hive more of an "Author" platform than social media. Social Media doesn't force people to write little essay style posts in order to engage and discuss a topic
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