RE: What are your fears surrounding Hive and its tech?

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Well, I managed to read everything that you wrote. I joined Hive in 2020 right after the fork but dabbled with steem previous to that as well.
In my experience, things have changed drastically since the time I joined to what is happening now. The decentralized social media narrative has boomed in a big way last year as you have mentioned. I do not have knowledge on the technical scalability and resource credits as much as other may have. From users' perspective there are a couple of notes I want to highlight.

  1. The focus on earning crypto and decentralization is sometimes stretched too far

What I mean by this is not to bash the reward system and decentralization aspect of the platform. It is to simply mention that users will use a product if it is easy to use and if they can socialize and engage. Earning crypto is nice to have opportunity. I used to be a part of Cent- an ETH based social media platform- before Hive. The concept was very similar to Hive where you post your content and earn ETH as reward. I tried but could not continue simply because there were not enough users to interact with. And, earning crypto can be a put off sometimes when you compare yourselves with others. I know one should never do that but it comes very naturally when you have the earnings displayed.
May be it is helpful to welcome users to engage and interact but not focus on earning too much. That way we will get the regular crowd first. If users want to join for decentralization then they will join the platform if we give them a good product. Look at @dbuzz , they have developed an amazing app but they may need more users to use it. if there was no earning aspect attached to every post, many people would have used it.

  1. I forget the second one - :P
    I think I was trying to make a point around product efficiency. Hive as a blogging platform may need a revamp and a marketing push to reach out to the general mass out there.

Not sure if my rambling makes sense to the Hive OG like you but it is a perspective from a user who is here for close to three years.



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