It is interesting to think about these questions you raise. I will try to answer as clearly as I can. Broadly speaking I have felt each year with a different dynamic, when hive was born after the fork coinciding with my arrival to the ecosystem I felt that Hive was offered in an open way to anyone who wished to arrive, therefore, the years 2020 and 2021 have been adopting new users and building a community respectively. Now, with respect to the year 2022 I perceived it more focused on educating the existing community and it was also a year focused on showing Hive more broadly, so I think we have seen a lot of activities on twitter, also a large number of meetups, activities such as Hive Fest, Sprinter Fest and other events.
What I expect from Hive for 2023, I actually expect several things to be honest. On the one hand, I hope that the adoption and education around Hive will continue, since that will allow us to continue consolidating the community, but what I really hope is to be able to get Hive to reach spaces that it has not yet been able to deploy fully. I am talking about development and finance. Getting more investment in Hive will consolidate the project because more investment shows more confidence, more confidence shows more development and construction. Also more investment has side effects such as support for existing projects and the emergence of other new projects within the blockchain.
But, just wishing or hoping that it will happen will not do anything to achieve what I expect, so I am taking seriously part of my time every day to learn new skills, and plan local strategies to contribute as much as I can to make what I expect from Hive a fact and not just a wish and I think that is something we should all do.
We might have seen more activites held on other main stream social platforms but still we have not been able to onboard enough people, still we are wasting reward pool for promoting those platforms instead of focusing on what's happening inside.(That's my observation)
Retention part is still not fully addressed because there are some old practices which is going on for years now.
Thanks for you deep insight.
I think it would be interesting to rethink what we do, to have clear objectives such as adoption and retention based on a solidity in the community and not to adopt for the sake of adopting. There is still a long way to go, there is work to be done. Best wishes to you in this year.