PS - Other thoughts - on that chart Steemit is number two but that is just thousands of Koreans doing shitposts and milking the reward pool - the site is a joke. And Mastodon is number four but it is a complete disaster and will be forgotten history in a few years, probably wiped out by Nostr or some other new system that actually works.
If Hive Blog, Peakd, and Ecency (and any other Hive front ends) were added together the position of Hive would be seven. And Mastodon is just dozens of libtard "instances" with nothing much in common anyway (apart from sucking balls), so shouldn't be counted as one platform. When I tried one I was banned in under 10 mins!
But really these platforms are all insignificant compared to Fakebook...
Twice in the last little bit I've had the opportunity to try to onboard someone here and it's hard. download the apps, get the key chain, understand the various jobs the keys do... etc.
Just the tech is hard, then add the social pressure...
Yeah I think what some of the Hivers were angry with Coingecko about was not knowing that all the apps are Hive apps, but how and why would they know that and lump them together.
In other news.. with many opting to put more into HBD and less in voting power, votes matter more and curation is up a bit. If that trend continues and those who don't want to participate go for the 20 percent Interest on HBD, the content is likely to get better rather than worse, but like all things crypto it takes time.