Hi @denmarkguy, I remember the time of WEKU, actually it was quite active for a while, although again we were not there, just created the account with our account name so it is reserved.

I absolutely agree with you that for many bloggers to write into empty audience is no sense. As a humans we are a social animal we need to communicate, share our views and hear opinions, discuss and probably debate. That is what makes a great community and that is something we have much less on Steem and more in Hive.

I know many people have not that a stimulus and in the "standby" mode, they are still around, probably upvoting but do not spend much time like before. But this is until the moment when the price of one or another will go up.

Due to reward scheme of our platform people's activity will depend on that very much. But on other hand they obviously do not know that when the activity of users are low as well as price the reward pool is much higher. Therefore, even though they see a small reward the payout is bigger then people would be receiving if the price would be higher.

In my opinion it is a shame that Steemit Team is not acting as a center of News and Updates as should be, because keeping silence made many people to leave recently.That is why if I see something new or potential good for Steem I try to do post about with the hope that people will read and might do with this news something. We are all on this boat and should make our best to reach a save harbor. Thank you for stopping by and I really appreciate your contribution to the discussion :)