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## Hive in fact has content consumers that don't necessarily engage with all post read. 

I am one of them. 

It is becoming extremely difficult to keep up with reading and writing these days due to the holiday celebrations and it is simply what I do not want to get used to, given that it's a bear market and so many factors simply don't support losing pace and focus. 

So on a quest to pick up a topic to pour my thoughts into as usual, I found [this tweet](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605957811162054656?t=QIKPuFuiZO2hnIj_zsVvcA&s=19) from Elon Musk about making "Tweet View Count" public. This is where I got the image above and decided the Hive people needed to be reminded of how the world works. 

Previously, tweet views were private to creators, now it will likely be made public. While some people say it is not relevant, it can aid in more transparency as with evaluating the number of daily users across numerous contents on the platform. The reality of all social networks is that there are more silent users than there are people that actually leave a trail. 

This may be because most people are introverted or anti social, or many because for most of the time, they don't feel they need to contribute to contents in any way. I have personally read more tweets than I have left a comment or even like. Same thing with Hive, I have read more posts than I have logged any trail for the blockchain to validate. Sometimes you find me writing on a topic I happen to dig up some old contents from random users of which, I never really interacted with the post in a way that the public would know. 

This is how social networks work, or should I say the Internet itself? Yeah, that's the one. We have Hive visitors that don't have an account, maybe search engine traffic or social media referrals. These people may never wish to have a reason to leave a trail, in fact, if Hive frontends were to force visitors to sign up by limiting the number of contents they can view, we would see a spike in sign ups. I would not count it as a win really, these things shouldn't be applied to free networks like Hive. 

## What Hive Must Focus Upon

You don't earn engagements by screaming it every fuckin day, that's not how it works. So instead of always having to come up with those engagement talks, we really need to focus on other things. To make an example, I read a post by @blanchy this morning, on [how to increase one's engagement](https://peakd.com/hive-164166/@blanchy/so-you-are-a-boring-author-on-hive-and-your-posts-are-getting-no-comments-what-to-do-next-a-guide), in as much as I found it funny and the details very much applicable to the topic, I never really left a trail, and now, I just did, so might as well give it that upvote :) 

Did I purposely leave his post untouched just to make a comment about it on this post now? Maybe I did for some reason but definitely not for the reason of this post as I only just saw the Elon tweet pop on my feed a while ago by it's algorithm given that an account I follow liked it - I didn't even react to the tweet and I left with an image, lol. 

What Hive must focus upon is products, if we keep thinking about increasing engagement when not developing anything to cause it to be organic, we are ultimately trying to turn users to the product. Let's take a look at LeoFinance for a bit, a recent data coverage by @dalz on [frontend traffic shows](https://leofinance.io/@dalz/exploring-the-top-hive-frontends-a-comparative-analysis-or-dec-20022) how Leo has held on pretty good(damn, another post I didn't leave a trail:). 

The reason for this is because @khaleelkazi has not relented, thus, the team has been tasked all year to build, Threads happen to be one of the reasons it has held on well, and if we look back in time, somewhere in Hive history books, LeoFinance has always been one frontend with highly engaged users, why? The focus has been to build and people love trying out new things, the ability to witness all of it keeps the community going. 

Eventually, LeoFinance, via the new frontend might see a huge boost in user activities. Hive does not need cannot get a boost in engagement by talking about every day, it needs actual applications that aids a user, and even still, as the picture used in this post entails, the percentage of its overall users that actually engages with content will always be low because people simply aren't all about making much impression. 

*Thank you and please leave a comment, your thoughts matter to me* 

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