According to @dapp.com and @stateofthedapps eSteem/ecency is fourth after Splinterlands, Peakd, Hive.blog (here and here. It's still just a few thousand people overall. We need more Splinterlands players to be social.

We need to find the next wave of new users. I am talking to people who are actively recruiting in various areas. Places like Africa and Venezuela ought to have plenty who are interested, but they seem sensitive to the current price as they need the money. Just increasing the active users ought to help as it provides a bigger audience for quality content creators. We have to work on getting a better reward distribution. I'm happy for less people to give me automatic votes. They could follow the @tenkminnows trail instead as that is all small accounts.

People need to use communities to build engagement. People can just be social as they would on other platforms. I know the money matters, but making it fun helps.

I won't give up on Hive. I have hopes it won't be corrupted like Steem was, but nothing is perfect and greed is a powerful force.