RE: Why should I post my content on Hive?
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I'm almost scared to comment as I'm fast becoming the Hive (and formerly Steemit), curmudgeon. The thing is, someone has to be the individual that says: "Hey, hang on a minute........"
It's a great idea that everything is fluffy in the garden, but the reality is a whole different kettle of fish. Back in the days of Steem/Steemit when 'The Devs' implemented Hardfork 21 the krill such as myself were set to lose out big time, and yet those who could pretty much guarantee a half decent reward for three sentences and a picture of a unicorn blowing a rainbow out its bum were all set to rake it in. I and many others complained all to no avail hence, it begs the question that while I may well own my content, I have no influence unless, of course, I own 20 Billion Hive.
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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I think Hive has several problems; it wants people to ramp out 'Good content' which in itself is pretty tricky because it takes time to produce a quality piece of work. For some, there's a temptation to churn out pulp fiction in an attempt to 'keep up' while there are those who subscribe to the school of thought "Stack em high, sell em cheap." it doesn't matter what you post so long as you post something every hour or half-hour because $0.15 here and $1.20 there soon mounts up. Then there's all the other stuff you have to wade through such as multiple accounts, voting bots and cliques that you have to contend with. And don't even get me started on Voting and Rewards. 🤣
Good content is subjective, for example, I'm not a massive fan of these I travel the World type posts especially when it's obvious the author was Comped at the hotel, resort or restaurant to write an enthusiastic review.
All of this doesn't address the reasons why the uptake of Hive is so slow. I for one am genuinely gobsmacked that a lot more of my fellow FOSS contemporaries are not flocking to it, I suspect the reason is relatively simple, there's not enough of them on Hive! Like most things in life, two or three people interested in something and its all "Meh" ten or twenty people and "Ooh, that looks interesting." The thing is we need to stop talking about Hive on Hive people need to get out there on Social Media, and not just Twitter and Facebook either, and evangelise the benefits of joining the Hive community.
P.S. Have you any idea how long it took me to write that and check it? ROTFLMAO
Stellabelle? :D
I don't think it was all bad for accounts as it brought back a massive amount of stake to become active again, rather than the bidbots taking it all. The introduction of the EIP improved distribution, both for curators and for creative accounts. Of course, it is still going to depend on content typo etc..
I disagree as over the time I have seen many small accounts have effects on the system, including on the development side of things and through suggestions.
I think that if someone investigates the likelihood of earning anything on the other platforms and the work it actually takes, most will be glad to get something for what they do.
Funnily, all of this happens on the other platforms too, it just isn't transparent.
What you are reading is the answer asked in Quora and it appears on Quora here:
https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-post-my-content-on-Hive/answer/Tarazkp
Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/tarazkp1/status/1272451580684652544
I normally do, if you haven't noticed ;)
"I think that if someone investigates the likelihood of earning anything on the other platforms and the work it actually takes, most will be glad to get something for what they do."
Most of us have been happy for years to post stuff on personal Blogs, Tumblr, Google Plus and a whole host of other platforms for no financial gain. We did it for love and the recognition of our followers. Obviously, I like the idea of being rewarded I just don't believe that so-called "Good Content" gets the recognition it deserves especially when I see someone resharing a Dtube video and gaining rewards I can only dream about. Now I'm not stupid, I know it all depends on the number of real followers one has and also if they like your content or just upvote for the sake of it.
Most of the people I speak to who had accounts on Steemit said they gave it up because it swallowed up too much of their time. I think that's code for: "I never really earned anything from it so didn't think it was worth my time. What you have to remember is some people have a different idea as to what their time is worth some may feel two or three replies on Twitter or Mastodon is worth far more in the life stakes game than $0.04 HBD
I know you know about upvoting comments. It's my footer aimed at those who don't. 🙂
And ego. The driving force and what the platforms rely on is that we will swap valuable content for likes, hearts and stars. And we do.
Yes, no matter what they actually offered.
Yes indeed. What I earn here is relatively insignificant to what things actually cost in Finland, but I am looking long from a financial perspective - and this includes my approach to content creation. In my opinion, it is worth my time to produce what I consider valuable, useful, interesting etc content, regardless of what I earn. At least I have kept a similar standard across the last almost 4 years, ups and downs. As i see it, producing content is like an art form and an artist has to be able to look themselves in the mirror after each piece. Some have no self-respect, that is their path :)
Some people are happy trading something for nothing, at least on Hive they can potentially get something for their something and be part of something larger than themselves.
I hope it grows I truly do. I just can't help feeling we've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and that nothing has changed.
At least for me, my Korean isn't good enough ;D
I would rather be here as part of building something potentially important, than anywhere else as part of the mass pushing the grind wheel to generate profits for the 0.1%
Is there an objective basis for this PoV?
observational. I know that for a lot of accounts that had been here a long time building slowly, their curation improved and they tended to get more on posts. Rather than 30-40% of the stake in bidbots voting on less than 1% of the authors, people looked wider. On top of this, many of the largest circles were somewhat disbanded through the downvoting, making them spread a bit further at least too.
I think the downvoting had the most impact, and I also think it was largely a psychological effect (that the perception of downvoting being more viable improved motivation to downvote more the viability actually improved).
What we can say from the data is that the farming of large accounts and bidbots did diminish. What we haven't seen clearly is this translating into new users actually doing better and sticking around as happened not long after the initial reward curve linearization in 2017. I would love if @eroche still did the bubble charts he used to do which showed visibly how well different Steem cohorts and demographics were doing in the reward pool.
Me too, but it would have been more of a challenge had there not been the 50/50 as well - it was kind of like carrot and stick and also closed the gap making "voting better" much more attractive than the drama of getting downvoted.
Remember that not long after the 2017 hf19, price steadily increased to the ATH and a lot of alts were far more active.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that has been objectively good for price in the last two years... was being taken over by Justin Sun 😂
Perhaps, but unfortunately my Korean isn't good enough to compete ;D