Oh, that's very bad...I hope situation will improve a lot soon.

It has almost nothing to do with bitcoin cash. Segwit activation is the first step towards adding new features to bitcoin - it doesn't magically speed up all transactions just by being activated. Next all exchanges, wallets and service need to start using segwit transactions for it to actually ease pressure on fees and block sizes. So far only very few segwit transactions have been made as most transactions are still normal transactions and they do not get faster or cheaper just because segwit is activated.

On the other hand what you're currently seeing with fees going up and transactions being delayed is a concerted spam effort coordinated by people trying to make it look like the bitcoin blockchain is congested and needs a controversial 2x upgrade in November which is being pushed by the NYA miners when most of the userbase and developers are against it and will not agree to their threats. It's artificial and does not represent the real economy situation.

I think seg wit is a good think but I also think we have to give it time. Not everything can instantly work as its supposed to. We also can't forget that bitcoin is very new compared to other currencies so it's essential that we give it time to grow and not rush things.

Does that mean bitcoin cash is becoming more popular than the bitcoin?

Why do you say segwit is a joke ?? Segwit also takes time and can't directly as you expect, and segwit still unfinished by end of november is over. . We follow aja process and don't think badly before it all ends.

I am equally still waiting for the same time when we  begin to reap the benefit of all this SegWit activation and all the hypes that came with it. Maybe in the coming days we will be able to to start getting it.

It's just the first week and the foundation has only been laid out. From this point on is the growth, development and fine-tuning of the real applied technology.

Just be patient, we are in a transition state.  The activation is just a first step of numerous steps.  An initial process where the actual solution to the scaling will be implemented.  We can think of Segwit Activation being the foundation to enable other development to happen in Bitcoin System.  So we just need to bear with it for a meantime together with those people who are spamming the network.  They will get tired of it, I am sure.

and now people are realising the activation is meaningless

to get 2.1mb of real economic average base blocksize nearly everyone needs to move their funds over to segwit based transaction keypairs..

8 years ago it was possibly to have 7tx/s if near everyone decided to do lean transactions.. yet in 8 years it has not been seen.
same will happen now. its near impossible for near everyone to be using segwit based transactions. so dont expect the 7tx/s anytime soon or regularly.

segwit does NOT stop spam
segwit does NOT stop quadratics
segwit does NOT stop bloated tx's

all segwit does is offer innocent people to disarm themselves. but does not stop malicious people from continuing to do what they do.

segwit has been an over promised under delivered empty gesture that has wasted 2 years of innovation.

people are now starting to wake up to it and wishing proper rules and proper universal growth was the route to take

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what the activation has done was to change the topology of the network is now set. with the cartels nodes at the top and the cludge of other nodes at the bottom.