I see the points that you both make. What seems to invalidate yours is no one is doing the things you talk of could be done. Somehow Blurt got even less interactive during my absence, and it wasn't doing so hot before I left.
I look at the hot and trending and it isn't unusual for me to surf through 50 posts and not be interested in one single thing.
No one cares what someone else had for breakfast, or how much they walked today or health advice that is just regurgitating what reputable sites say, as boring as possible.
The lack of means for most to even buy Blurt is also a huge impediment.
I could go on, but I respect you haven't given up and have tried to remain optimistic. I was like that too for a couple of years here as I watched my ineptitude in changing mindsets and directions.
I don't think you will ever change
People want to get ready-made products and consume them and they don't care about anything else, and you see here on blurt you have 1,300 active people, EACH of them is really a co-owner and among them you have a dozen or so programmers, seo specialists, people who know people, artists, etc. . The problem is that even though they are the main "shareholders" of this venture and by acting together they work to their own advantage, instead they are mostly passive and reach out to milk the blurts.
I've said since coming here, if posts were interesting and served as a catalyst for comment threads like one sees on Reddit, this place would become more than the token.
But almost everyone just wants to post the least interesting, least time-consuming posts to get their tokens.
You have faith in the majority I lost some time ago.
The system is psychologically abusive, and rewards non productive, non creative, non inspiring, dull, grey, bureaucratically minded people. (the collectivist mindset).
People 'feel' something is 'off', after only a short while.
The midwits - and that's being over generous, imo - DO NOT HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL aptitude or courage (their ego, and 'being wrong' gets in the way of coherent thought) to address the foundations of a fucked up system.
Blame anything - or anyone - but themselves...
The problem is not with this blockchain, the problem is with what people have in their heads.
But rather than address the foundational core econimcally dim and philosophically absent, issues, (a move away from communism and toward free markets and rewarding talent and work).... the lazy and stupid would prefer to call people complainers, haters, toxix, and other cultural Marxist tropes that hold all the legitimacy of the other previously 'very successful commie constructs' (s/ obvs)..
my latest post covers this !..I repent!..lol