I'm not sure there is a single reason people don't want to stay. I think it's a lot of different things.

Mostly I think it boils down to HIVE is super niche and you have to be here a long time to understand stuff.

Like I downvote and some people go absolutely insane. So how are we going to onboard normal people if people are not even allowed to dislike content?

Also, when I started powering up, so many people wanted me to do a deep dive into Steem and if I didn't want to people would basically call me stupid.

So we onboard people, they are not allowed to dislike content and they need to do extensive research on Steem (which I honestly still don't even really understand what Steem is).

It also doesn't help that so many people talk about Whales in such a weird way. Most normal people don’t even know what a crypto Whale even is. It would be WAY different if we talked about Blue Whales a lot, that would be cool. Or maybe we talk about Orcas? I guess Orcas are technically dolphins but still, Orcas are awesome!

Anyways, like things that should be fairly straight forward it blows people’s mind here. Like I have had someone complain that I upvote comments. So am I just supposed to upvote posts because that’s what most people do? Or can I like comments when people engage and I like seeing conversations?

I’m not sure this covers everything. There are probably more reasons I think we have a hard time onboarding and retaining users.

If people have been talking about Blue whales the whole time I’ve been here, please let me know. Wouldn’t be the first time I got confused anyways.

Long story short, nice to meet you! I mostly like commenting on HIVE, to me, comments are some of the best content.