RE: Why is HIVE about speculation and not about community and content?

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You should make more than 30c on this post :)

Hive is different to those other platforms in not having an owner company. That has pros and cons. We don't have a marketing department to post ads and attract content creators and so it is up to the community, but we do have freedom and that matters.

People don't talk about earnings as much as you might expect and it was hardly mentioned at Hivefest. A lot of people care about their content and about what Hive can do for various people and communities. Of course a lot are also just here to earn, but you have to work hard to make much.

You have been here almost as long as me, so you have seen all the ups and downs. I expect you are also frustrated by the lack of growth. I would have hoped for millions of active users by now. Some may say we are not ready for that, but when will we be?

I don't have all the answers, but I still believe Hive has a lot to offer and I will keep promoting it as an alternative to corporate platforms (that I try to avoid).

!BEER

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Well, HIVE is still farmers paradise ... IF you have the right friends and supporters.

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There are a few cases like that. I do okay, but I'm not getting such huge votes very often. I earn about as much from curation as from posts and I try to give rewards where they are deserved.

At least everyone has some chance to earn here and the reward distribution would change if Hive ever takes off.

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You are an optimist, but I like you! :)

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LOL! Hive is still tiny, so things will be distorted by outliers. I've been here a long time and it's still fun for me.

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it's easy to be a pessimist

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Sure is. We need more positive thinking if we want things to improve.

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I don't have all the answers, but I still believe Hive has a lot to offer and I will keep promoting it as an alternative to corporate platforms (that I try to avoid).

This is why I was thinking Leo or one of the other communities that are built upon hive might be a more appropriate comparison. There seems to be a bunch dropped out which I guess is due to the low HIVE value, but niches are still here, and with less of a crypto emphasis perhaps they can grow organically through interest rather than income?

Decentralization is another benefit, but as we have seen with Mastodon and Bluesky, it has been the content creators in the end who attracted the people and not the tech :)

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Leo have experimented with ads and I think peakd are too for non-Hivers. The dapps have to find ways to fund themselves. It is in their interest to attract more users.

I like Mastodon, but you depend on whoever runs your instance. I don't plan to run my own as that is extra work I don't need. I've not looked at Bluesky yet and don't really want to take on another platform. I've been on lots and seen several die from lack of income or through Google getting bored with them. I hope Hive is here to stay.

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I should write about why I like Bluesky but TL;DR many of my reasons for liking BS (ugh) are the same as I like Hive :)

Originally I was tempted by Mastodon, and even bought a domain makersocial.org to run a server, but then I saw so many horror stories of people brigading servers to "test" the moderation (botting with the n-word etc), plus apparent legal risk around moderation, that I backed off

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