This was a problem many years ago on Steemit and it lead to thousands of people leaving the platform.
Was? After I was talked countless times about the general lack of real human comments on the Hive blockchain, someone told me in the recent past in one of the comments that people rarely comment on the Hive blockchain, because they fear that they will get downvotes, so looks like the cycle continues.
I don't feel a lack of comments at all for those who get involved in projects or who leave a lot of comments
I actually leave a lot of comments. So much that I am the 6th in the engagement league this week, so I really try to add my part to the engagement, but when I look around, I see a lot of posts from various authors without any real human comments. I see a lot of bot comments. I also saw someone, who literally talked to himself in the comment section of his post.