Follow Friday: Engagement Ring

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The News

Not such a great week for the coins we like. I guess Mr Sun will be happy with $TRON, but then he has to get over what a disaster his attempt to buy this chain was. It seems there is still no new development on the 'legacy chain' and so it should be worth even less. Sun seems to care more about stupid memecoins as a way to buy political influence.

Prices from @coingecko

Meanwhile we can show support for Hive projects on the dapp list. None of them have more than 200 votes, so we could be doing a lot better. You just need a suitable wallet to log in. I use the one in the Brave browser. Thanks to @coldbeetrootsoup for organising the voting efforts.

I saw this from @thebeedevs about a new, smarter search for Hive. We have fairly good search via peakd and Ecency, but this uses 'AI' to try and give better results.

There are so many cool apps built around Hive. I like Hive Together that finds where a given pair of accounts have interacted. Then there is HiveIsBeautiful that shows the types of transactions in each block. Splinterlands is very active, but there is also @podping by @brianoflondon that broadcasts when new podcasts are published. This blockchain can be used for more than just blogging and games.

HiveIsBeautiful

Friday Follows

The Dog House

In the Dog House this week are...

...all of us Hivers!

We are guilty of not making this platform the go-to place for good content and engagement. I joined up nearly nine years ago and we currently have just a few thousand active users. There are millions of accounts, but some people created lots to grab cool names or for abuse. Many others joined to play Splinterlands, but never got into the social side. Then we have lost lots of people along the way for various reasons. You cannot just blame 'greedy whales' and 'overzealous Hive police'.

I really think that Hive should be for everyone, but people need reasons to come here and to stick around. A few cents in rewards may not be enough. People will happily use the massive corporate platforms all day for no rewards as they find it fun.

We do have some professional level content creators here, but some get little attention as they may not have links to the big accounts and they may not do much engagement here as they are busy on other platforms. We need to make it worth their time to visit more often. If it is then they may tell their friends in their industry. I am sure that many creators are fed up with those corporate platforms where you may have to pay to get noticed. Leave them some comments and share their posts. I have mentioned plenty of such people in these posts over the years, so you can check the archive. I will favour those in areas that interest me like music and comics, but we all have things we are into.

Of course we can also chat to friends and like their selfies, but should accept that most of us will not be producing content that will go viral. We can still earn from it via curation though, so the success of a few can benefit all.

We can also bring outsiders to cool content on Hive via links on other platforms. It does not have to be all about promoting your own posts.

These are just my thoughts and I love to hear what others think. What do you think is holding Hive back?

The End

I did not get a post out last Friday as I was away. I just do this for fun, but plenty of people have told me that it is useful to them. I just cannot commit to a definite schedule. However, I will be doing my monthly #BritList post tomorrow that I have kept up for years. I have done some posts for other countries, but I do not have time to maintain them all and so leave it to others to do that.

Enjoy your weekend and Hive five!

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I had no idea about those different tools. It seems there are a lot out there that I have zero clue about.

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I have loads in my bookmarks, but some may be dead. There are a few that I will use now and then.

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I didn't know the two tools either (HiveTogether and HiveIsBeautiful).

About the dog house, yes, we all have our share of blame for not making Hive more attractive.

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I keep saying that we all have a part to play. If each of us tells a couple more about Hive then it can grow. It can be a lot of work though.

!BEER

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We do have some professional level content creators here, but some get little attention as they may not have links to the big accounts and they may not do much engagement

What I have learnt is that you get out what you put in, if these folk don't engage then they certainly don't deserve my votes, or attention.

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I agree about putting in efforts, but, as I said, time is a factor. If they get 100 comments elsewhere then they will be busy there, but they may get one from me on Hive :) Actually those ones I follow do tend to respond and at least they are posting here, sometimes over many years. I know some of them are not so happy with the other platforms, but if you have good content then you have to go where the audience is.

We should not get too fussy in demanding that people do certain things to deserve our attention. I am sure others who could have been good for Hive just gave up. I want more cool content here so that I do not have to go elsewhere. I hardly look at the other socials.

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yes, Ian onboarded a couple of explorers who lasted a matter of weeks then gave up because all they were after were a few quick bucks, yet not prepared to put in the effort here. that fb place, well you only have to upload a handfull of shitty snaps to get a lovely warm feeling from all those pointless blue thumbs, whilst all the time zuckenberg and his clan reap your personal information.

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I know he got frustrated at trying to tempt people over from the hell-site. People will go where the audience already is instead of trying to build something new. I use that platform as little as possible just to stay in touch with a few people. The fact is that they have groups far bigger than our active user-base.

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fb yeah I was a regular there until he enticed me onto the darkside, only use it to see what family are doing these days.

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True! If we want HIVE to get bigger and to be far-reaching, HIVE should be for everyone, not only for givers-and-takers.

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Also, two new meetups have been announced this week - the one in Aachen, Germany, and the one in Alicante, Spain.

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Ah yes, I should have mentioned those. I ought to prepare these posts more, but have to find the time.

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Well, you can still do so next week :))

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For my part I have been using Snaps to try and up my engagement and to make numerous small votes to many accounts. It has definitely helped out my HP through curation and even a little extra from commentrewarder.

I tried the dapp thing a while ago but didn't have much luck for some reason. I probably need to go revisit that again.

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I think it's good to spread the rewards around to encourage people to keep going. Support what you want to see more of and have fun.

!BEER

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There are so many cool apps built around Hive.

They will be pillars for building the future of Hive.
These apps will be of great help to users

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@steevc, I paid out 6.398 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 9 comments in this discussion thread.

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