Many posts now receive little to no comments, and engagement from fellow users seems to be steadily declining.

For me, the whole issue starts from the onboarding process.

For many people, the only way they can invite friends to join steemit is by luring them with the benefits without telling them the challenges they had to pass through before getting to where they are…

So, when this newcomers come on board especially those ones who are not into writing but are forced to rack their brains just to come up with a beautiful piece, pass plagiarism test, pass AI Test, when they don’t get the expected reward, they start getting discouraged gradually feeling rejected.

Sometimes, when they compare their post with someone that they feel they did better than in the challenge but got upvote from curators or from friends, they feel ignored and want to exit the system unknown to them that this persons they are comparing their post with has built a good relationship and reputation in the system.

Another tiny challenge i also want to point out is that people are attached to certain bloggers because they enjoy reading their content all the time and it somehow places limitations making them unable to see the newcomers who just joined.

We also can’t rule out poverty rate as well. People are trying to make a living. So, when they feel a system isn’t meeting their expectations, they run off…