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Payouts to authors are down. Curation rewards are up, but still down in $ terms and that mostly goes to larger users. User activity, overall engagement is down. September was the worst month for user activity in 2 years.

The only measurable positive has been reduced inflation, but if you want free transactions and no inflation you should use Nano (it has no users).

Payouts to authors are down

Mine has been up. I think a shift is probably more likely.

We need to do research on this subject.

The first week mine were up, then I started getting dv.. Now it has leveled out, I would say my total rewards are about the same.