RE: Comers and goers
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I would suspect... although there's no way to develop an actual metric to measure it... that the majority of people who used to be here and then left were also people whose primary motivation for being here was "be on Steemit/Steem/Hive and make money!"
I'm still here, but I never came here to "make money." In fact, it was a total surprise to me when I actually did make a few dollars. My "expectation" was to have a secure and ongoing place to park my content... saying that as someone whose journey of creating web content has included close to 50 venues where there was suddenly a blank page where there used to be content, when the doors were suddenly shut.
So my primary "value" here is continuity. That's not most people's value.
My secondary value is using this (hopefully) as a sort of very long term savings account that just slowly builds and is otherwise left alone. If we get lucky, maybe the Hive token will rise in value. Who knows. Don't have any more or less faith in that than I would have if investing in the stock of a company I happen to like. Hopes, perhaps, but no expectations.
While there are exceptions, I would suspect the same.
Continuity and content protection is part of my use case too, as I don't think I a organize enough to keep all of this safe myself :)
The savings account is a big part of it also, as I would like to one day benefit financially from it, since it is a core part of building an economy.
I would also add that for me, an attractive part of the system is being able to help others in ways I couldn't otherwise. Depending on the token value at the time, I have either helped people in various ways in the many thousand or the hundreds of thousands. That is cool.
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