Social Media itself started to be a problem when people find out they can say what ever they want without immediate consequences because they were protected by a screen, most of this people dont act like that in real life, that is probably the main factor that push ppl away from Hive, but thats just social media been social media and it amplifies with true decentralization, for the rest the value, product and opportunity of growth are there, but for anyone who wants Hive to grow yes best practice is try to keep new users and incentivize them in some other way than tokens, if its all about the token price then it wont work and keep them in the loop until they understand the value and product, although Hive is not for everyone for now, it is a crypto project so 80% if not more are crypto related users, there are not many of us out there we are still a very tiny group compare to other communities irl, same way 80% of people in crypto are in because of the price, for me its 50/50 what push users out of Hive and it depends on the case, the important thing is if at some point we can make something to keep the balance at 50/50 and let users decide if they going to push it in any of the two directions, as I mention Hive is not for everyone, decentralization sometimes could be hard for some people because it means true liberty of speech and that can trigger emotional reactions, just my ignorant opinion as a new user to Hive