RE: Why should I post my content on Hive?
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Steem/Hive attracted a lot of people from the so-called 'alt-right' as they stand a good chance of being blocked by other social media for spreading hatred and encouraging violence. The fact that they can operate freely here puts other people off.
Hopefully moderated communities will solve this; as they can stick to their community and others can stick to their own communities.
That said I have over 80k followers elsewhere (mostly on IG and FB) and have been unable to bring over more than a handful. The interfaces and sign up process are simply too hard. I love PeakD but its all currently aimed more at a reddit communities and bringing them over then short form social media. Communities and tribes solve some problems mentioned above but they also bring complexity. I had high hopes for APPICS but they have drifted away into their own token economics which is a great loss I think and had some interesting interface choices. Hopefully Dapplr will fill that spot soon and I will have a mobile interface that I can recommend to people because at the moment we have none that are equivalent in experience to legacy platforms (by a long way). The transition needs to be seamless. Most people are not on a crusade against 2nd generation social media; they just want to connect to their friends. The experience here needs to be at a minimum equivalent to 2nd gen or they will not come. We should steer clear of promoting rewards and rather promote that you own your follower base on the blockchain. I have had my reach cut from 30k per post to 10k per post on instagram when I was forced onto a "content creator" account. I now get requests to promote my posts to get the reach back that I had before organically. This is the main fear influencers have; and we should be targeting that. They are already monetizing their bases in other ways; we don't need to make the reward pool a big part of it (just a bonus). It is ownership of contact fan base which in the long run is the real benefit here.
Complexity of Hive is an issue, but Hive Keychain makes it relatively easy to use the various dapps. Communities could be better, especially the ability to discover them. There should be ways to suggest communities based on tags you use.
The big platforms are trying to monetise everything by making people pay to get reach. Hive ought to do better than that. It may just be about reaching some critical mass where it becomes interesting to outsiders, but we have to work to achieve that.
In response to this @steevc, I have an idea.
I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure if this would work, but I'm going to shoot it out there and see if it makes sense or if you guys think it would be possible. Here goes:
What if upon signing up for a new Hive account, the new users were prompted with a 'Hive Installation Package'?
Basically, their API would be prompted to 'allow access' to the installer. When they did, the installer would create a new directory in a specified location based on their OS - and place their new account keys in it.
Then, the installer would prompt the API to install 'Hive Keychain'. After the installation was complete, they would be prompted to 'allow access' to Hive Keychain so that it could import their new account keys from the specified directory that was created by the installer - and into their new Hive Keychain extension.
They then create a password for the Keychain, without ever having to mess with their keys.
The whole process for them would be 4 clicks. One to install, one to allow the installer to create the directory for their keys, one to install Keychain, and one to allow keychain to import the keys from the specified directory.
They would be up and ready to go engage with the Hive community, without having to do any complex import, or copy and pasting, which many don't understand.
I don't know if this would be possible or if it would compromise security.
Any thoughts?
There may be trust issues with this, but it should at least take the user through the steps of backing up their keys and setting up Keychain.
Okay, that's what I was wondering (if there would be trust issues). Taking the user through a simple process would sure be nice for them though. I remember when I first opened an account when we were on Steemit. The initial set up process required a fair amount of reading in comparison to what most people do today. It's difficult to keep reader attention in today's world. I meet this issue when I'm writing for websites. Very short paragraphs, address the question repeatedly, and make sure that you have headlines that stand out with so many lines clearly supporting the thesis it almost feels redundant (in some articles). If the audience doesn't feel like their questions are answered with the most minimal effort from them - it's "NEXT!"