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Seriously I felt too shy to say more than 50%, because I wasnt really sure. But you are absolutely right. Six months ago more users were active than today. In the last weeks I feel that we are just the same people writing everyday. Many old users left the platform or invested in bots. New users are lost and frustrated, because nobody upvotes their posts. Some of them leave the platform early and very few trying to be active and productive.

It seems that so many people write just a few posts, get disappointed they didn't get $200 from their first couple posts and quit.

Yes thats the problem. They need to be more patient and try different topics until they find success in one of them.

i'm a new user (within the last couple weeks) and i fully intend on staying! unfortunately there's not many 'whales' in the cannabis categories but i'll try 2 be the first one :D

youtube is banning all cannabis content creators and i've been encouraging as many as possible to switch to dtube and steemit.. not sure how many have though

Believe me everyone will move to DTube and Dlive It will take some time, but until the end of this year many things will change. On Youtube they are getting more views because it is an old platform, but I see Dlive is doing very well lately.