RE: Hive needs better feeds! Let’s build a custom Curation tool! (fundraiser)
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This a great initiative. As pretty much the only person that frequently writes about comics on Hive, all it does is result in unfollows and less than a dollar in rewards unless I get the luck of a whale/curation guild vote. We can't expect Hive to ever grow if only travel/photography really gets the attention here. And newcomers that arrive and try to write about their (on Hive, niche) interests and get zero engagement are only going to rightfully pack up and move on.
At this rate we are on an inevitable dry up of Hive posters as the lucky few get their fun and the rest of Hive slowly gives up. Then we'll be asking where the remaining 4k hive posters went and why we are getting exchange delistings from nobody noticing we exist ;^)
This tool could give you a stream without photography and travel 👍
Sorry to join the conversation, the vast majority of your comic posts are actually relatively well paid. It doesn't mean they don't deserve more. I said, "relatively."
If you complain, imagine the vast majority of users. It regularly has the biggest whales upvoting its posts. And well!
About the newbies, you are absolutely right. However, we are on a blockchain and the ledger is open. It's easy to see that those who have been with HIVE the longest don't help new accounts. With happy exceptions.
Oh yeah that's why I specified the fact that it's only if I get that luck of a curation guild upvote, (curie, appreciator, etc.) more the intention to highlight the fact that there's not really a community of posters for that sort of thing.
Newcomers don't have the rep nor connections to really get the attention of those guilds, so if they're already posting something very niche here in a community that's essentially dead then they're likely to get discouraged incredibly fast when they don't just miss out on rewards, but also the engagement. The rewards are only half of the problem when nobody is there to comment on your stuff because they just don't relate to any of it.
I just mentioned the comics thing since I often use the search function on peakd to try to find others that do something similar to me and there's next to nothing. Yet that industry is massive with plenty of discussions over on web2.0 platforms. Another good comparison is the world of art: again really small on Hive but massive on web2.0 with incredibly good engagement.
Basically my point being if Hive can't grow beyond travel/photography (and I love posting about both of those myself) then we're really limiting the potential we have and could easily just stagnate or worse: spiral into a user decline over time as more people move on than we gain.
Luck is needed for everything, and it's no different here 🙂
Everything else you mention, 100% agreement.🤝
Yep! I think that's why we do see more attention towards the photography/travel stuff in the first place. It's not that it's necessarily the most interesting or engaging stuff to post (though it does appeal to quite a larger demographic compared to more niche topics do like food or music), just that it happens to be what does increase the odds to getting the rewards/engagement compared to the rest. Everyone's running to where most of the life is found. Not surprising at all ;^)
A social network lives off blogging. I think that is the main essence. That's why travel and photography publications get more support.
I can only think this way. That's the reading I do. Even because I wonder why the biggest whales support this type of publication more.