I'm not necessarily sure that I agree with @mubashariqbal on "core team wants to build everything themselves".

Developers mainly care about 4 things:

1) Funding, which is the reason we built Openfund
2) Tooling, which we spent a lot of time building this year and last
3) Users, which is why we're prioritizing a consumer app
4) Use-cases, which DeSo now offers plenty after core-protocol improvements

The only thing remaining is good education and documentation, which is on our priority list and I commented on here:
diamondapp.com/posts/f25fb4c8a93030a6ddfd77c4b4d4800da6bd820e8fb7bbdc60a21e09668a4ae2

And I've covered more extensibly here:
diamondapp.com/posts/14bcc357082a4b02658a4d22e6af3fa192915e2470c5375d25735b8e99e4dba0

Also everything we launched this year were also Octane-funded projects that didn't quite make any impact:

1) DeSo Block Explorer (solves for absence of @OpenProsper)
2) DeSo Wallet (solves for absence of @Wollo)
3) DeSo Chat Protocol (solves for absence of @desomessenger)

There's tons of things to build on DeSo, especially now that you don't have to worry about the middle-layer as much and can focus better on the app-layer, given our investment in infra & tooling. And also it's what everyone in the industry is craving (more apps, less middle-layer and toy-apps).

However, it requires ambition and dedication, especially if you want to go from zero-to-one. This is not something core-team can solve for anyone. You have to be very mission-aligned and must love taking risks to succeed on any new protocol. @BenErsing shared thoughts on here previously about whether anyone in the current community will be able to take DeSo from 0-1 besides core.

In terms of communication, I think you just have to solve all of the above first, and since many still probably hold $DESO, I think that's a good enough alignment incentive to get developers building on DeSo again.

With that being said, the shared focus should be on growing the pie, that includes developers and we expect to see a dramatic rise in the number of developers (new or old) building on top of DeSo given the low-barrier to entry and everything we've prioritized thus far.