ehhh I somewhat disagree with that. When facebook first started quality content that spark debates and engagement is what fueled it's growth. Now it's at a point where it could give a crap about content and instead runs fully on businesses buying up ad space while reducing exposure for all other content. Right now Hive is at the point where engagement needs to be sparked. Just like reddit. What made it so popular was the quality on the content that people interacted with. No spam bs just straight up good content and information.
I do believe though that hive needs to be much more than just a blogging platform. Things like NFTShowRoom which allows for NFTs to run on Hive is one of the most important additions to recently come.
That platform alone has ended up selling over 354,000 HIVE and it's still small. Apps such as this which provide more use case to hive are what's going to fuel it's growth. It's why I was really looking forward to project blank by leo over the DeFi project. Development of games is also going to fuel the chain. More use cases need to be in place before some serious marketing gets thrown at it and well honestly if you have a good app that runs on hive the marketing pretty much happens for itself! Pretty sure bitcoin didn't do any of their own marketing lol it was the people that used it every day and that pretty much goes for all of these blockchains now.
I did not said that Hive is a blogging platform.
Just that nowadays the most people use it that way.
It is already fueling. For example Splinterlands. That game alone should greatly contribute to the successfulness of the Hive blockchain. Games like Splinterlands should get more exposure. I started playing it on 2018.12.30. It was Steem Monsters back then. And it was on the Steem blockchain. The game later became Splinterlands, and later moved/switched to the Hive blockchain.
For the most part Hive is a blogging platform and that's about it. It's all the tribes and other things being built on top of it that hold the real value. Was around since alpha days of splinterlands. They branched out to other platforms such as wax and bat etc in order to reach more people. I'm curious to see what comes of Exode which is a new game getting ready to launch that will be exclusive to Hive. Being exclusive to Hive I feel brings more "value" to the hive token itself.
With the various dApps, games and websites, that seems to be changing. At least from the traditional blogging side.
For example there is d.buzz, which is a Twitter-like microblogging platform. There was also musing.io, which is a Quora-like Q&A (Questions and Answers) platform. Musing still exists, but nowadays it is using its own blockchain (Musing Chain).
There was d.tube, which also still exists, but nowadays it is using the Avalon blockchain.
If the other dApps begin to use their own blockchains, then the Hive blockchain will probably really remain as a blogging platform.