I gave twitter a go a couple years just to drive traffic and awareness on hive as well as connect with other active hive promoters. Didnt enjoy pumping my content into a corporate platform but it was where users were who needed to discover hive.

I bailed around the Elon thing before monetization because it was even more of a dumpster fire.

Now, it seems only the elite get rewarded which is a rather familiar trend in other areas. The work someone new would have to do there to make a single dollar seems like more of a sweatshop than a network. Like you said, introducing yourself here and having more of an organic, reasonable amount of curation and interaction is all you need to start networking and earning. Plus, if you believe the value of the token will appreciate, these small rewards will double and appreciate way more if not cashed out now. Pitiful x rewards are stuck in depreciating usd.

Self voting and governance challenges or not, i’ll take hive even without considering its value as a development platform.