What type of user are you?
I saw a very controversial comment from a user on Hive today, and they went on to contradict themselves as well. A person asked them what Hive needed, and they responded: users.
Then they still went ahead to talk about not needing users who only posts about their food, or where they're travelling to, or something they're doing for fun.
The statement felt a little contradictory, because if we say we need users, are we going to be picky about which users we need, or will we decide what type of content or contribution they will make?
So, how will we identify users who are potentially valuable to the chain? Are we going to create some kind of AI to do this? Absolutely not.
A techie tester maybe become a believer
We have to understand that a potential user is someone who comes in to test the tech and it is benefits, and sometimes some will become useful and valuable lovers and users of the tech for a long time.
Some will turn out to be spammers, some will only stay for the short term, a few will get confused and leave, and some might even go ahead to find a home here and make huge plans for themselves from the benefits that this chain provides, but we cannot control or decide
Contents shouldn't be about tech alone
Perhaps it's about who shares it?
If a person chooses to share content about their farm, their day, their illness, or their favorite things, I do not see why we should shame them for doing so; they are here to use the social front of the chain; they are not DEVS, programmers, or other Blockchain portfolio members, but a user is a user.
If we have an extra 20k people sharing real-life events, that is still 20k more users; the fact that they are only sharing content about their lives does not diminish them, even if some of them may become bad actors.
We cannot prevent a user from sharing what they want or from becoming bad actors; there are tools for doing so already, and we cannot predict what type of user a person will become based solely on their introductory post.
However, I understand the sentiment and frustration. The sentiment is primarily about the state of the market. Sometimes people say things out of frustration, and these statements are not only contradictory; they can also be based on feelings that lack realistic context.
Everyone on Hive has had some experience creating content on web2, and some of the types of content here are similar to what we have here, which is due to the social aspect. There are communities on Hive with strange types of content, but why do they exist? They are actually there to give anyone who is new here a sense of belonging and is unsure what they can do.
Communities were created for the diversification of the social front
The existence of communities implies that anyone is likely to create content on whatever they want, and this does not affect how they use the other aspects of Hive. I know two people who started using Hive.
The first began as a content creator who discussed politics and the Middle East war, but now this person is a Hive witness and is working on a side project for Hive.
The second person is an Asian creator who began by playing the ukulele but has since become a Hive witness and does incredible work for Hive on the side.
We cannot simply gatekeep people.
Some people wanted to test the tech and move on, but now they're here and can't leave again. The content type may not determine what a user intends to use the chain for.
I also know someone who is not a Blockchain expert, but they have been playing some smart games on the side and setting some great goals for themselves here.
Why do we need what we do?
We must also recognize that having numbers is not a weakness. Unfortunately we cannot keep everyone, and this means the number of people who leaves has to be matched by the number of people who comes in, infact the latter has to be more than the former and this is very important.
The space is filled with magnificent techs that not a lot of people are using, there are techs that have all the shiny stuffs, but still they can't pull numbers or volumes. Users are users, and numbers are numbers, even if not all of them will result in the desired outcome.
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I like to share my art and I like to read lifestyle and daily content, I think everything is important and that's what makes hive strong and solid because it keeps the interest of several different circles and sometimes it creates meeting points between interests that allows us to improve, as long as it is quality content I think the topic is not important, but it's just a personal opinion. Have a nice day.
Well lifestyle is a great style of content as there are consumers who likes them a lot. I provided there are consumers, a content holds value, even though not universally, but personal.
Honestly, I couldn’t agree more with your post. We can't be asking for more users and then start picking and choosing what kind of content they should share. Everyone uses Hive differently, and sometimes, the people who start off posting casual stuff end up becoming some of the biggest contributors.
I believe growth takes time, and numbers matter too, even if not everyone stays forever. I don't think it also makes sense for someone to determine another person input.
Well it happens here a lot. I saw from that particular comment that that person was probably just frustrated from how things are moving slowly. It's someone I respect a lot, and their input towards the chain, but that wasn't right coming from them.
Growth is growth, users are users, some will come and go, others will stay, but if someone doesn't come, then how can they even go in the first place?
You're right. It is just about those who think they have the best solution to every problem. Is that really the problem of Hive, and why it didn't grow as anticipated?
Well, the fellow is a respectable user on this chain, but I think their concern is towards something else entirely, so it might just be a transfer of aggression
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I am aware that we need more users on hive. Infact, most of us are always advertising hive using different social media handles. So, we shouldn't be picky biko, as long as these users are creating original content, let them just be, tommorw might just be great with them, no one knows. Just like the two people u mentioned who are now hive witnesses .
Hive encourages diversification and I believe that's why we have numerous communities of different niches . The most important thing is originality.
Not many will agree. There are so many people with different concepts and mindset about what and who we need and they just this mindset to disqualify others. It happens a lot on the political aspect of this Blockchain. Sometimes I'm happy that the regular users don't come across this toxic mindset and attitude.
As for me, Hive is a journal. I don't even interact with most of it's features anymore. Back in the day I used to try out every single thing on the platform. I used to keep up with all the dapps, sign up for all the contests and incentives etc. Nowadays, I just use it in the same way as I use a notebook and share my day, life, experiences, etc. I appreciate people that drop by to say hello now and again, and then just move on elsewhere on the app.
I also sometimes look around to see how others OGs are doing and am pleased to find they are still creating content. Sometimes I'd read up on some of their past posts to catch up on what they've been up to.
The thing with Hive is, we the content creators are also the consumers of each others' content. There's a limit to how much content we can consume though, so people tend to stop keeping up with each other after a while. It's not like YouTube where there is one creator for every million consumer.
Well, yeah, every consumer of creator will somehow, one day change their way of interaction, even on places there were once very active, I think life can happen and people will have other real life issues which are better priorities and you've done the same too. I'm guilty of not keeping up with others, and that's because I'm not also the type of user I was.
Health issues and all that have set it, so I just come in and go, and do the occasional promotion once in a while, because it still benefits us all if this place goes to the moon.
No one has to right to critic the type of content you choose to create. A user is a user, and an OG that doesn't post often or not as active, doesn't make them less of a user.
Even on YouTube as well, I don't consume contents as I used to, everything depends somehow on the time we have to give, I think.
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.
I believe that what "communities" in hive are for- so you can sort out what content you want to see more of. If every hiver will post only about technologies, then expect potential hivers to be only those who are into technology.
You're right, well it's not just possible to only have tech creator or maybe investors alone. Without users and numbers, a Blockchain is not as attractive as it should be.
If we want users we certainly can't say what kind of users we want. Sure it great to see new blood, sadly many will sign up and shortly vanish seeing that it's hard to make any money right out of the gate. It took me a long time to really start earning anything.
Growth is growth and if we can retain people who want to engage and grow their accounts I think that's great. If we pick up some builders along the way, awesome! We should be happy with growth, but accept that not everyone will write about blockchain related themes. I think that's a great thing, the more variety we have the better and make it easier to recruit and retain new people.
Yeah we cannot always attract or have techies, if the product is not for regular people then of what use is it? People will come and go, and people will stay, it's not just peculiar to Hive, it's almost everywhere.
Like I mentioned, I think that user was simply frustrated. They've always mentioned the issues they have with the DHF and valueplan and I'm guessing this aggression was why they talked about not having "food/regular lifestyle" users, when they could simply talked about addressing the main issues we have.
When I did the last #HHHLive show, the main topic was content consumption as I was curious to see what people WANT to read and what they are CURRENTLY reading... I was expecting that people want to see more ordinary posts, selfies, the usual social network things, but I was surprised to see people want to read what is currently most popular... Travel posts, foodie posts, etc... I don't see it as a failure if there are a lot of posts like that, as they are WANTED!
We are moving the issue and pointing fingers at the content, trying to see more X than Y, while the issue isn't that... The real issue is to MONETIZE the content... If we were able to monetize content as big, traditional SM are doing, and, for example, burn tokens (or something else), it could be beneficial to everyone...
Every time we are in the bear market, or the HIVE price is down, we have the same discussions over and over again... When the price is up, everyone is happy... And imagine the surprise... The SAME content is served in both periods... So, the the price has nothing to do with the type of the content...
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The person who made this statement that warranted this post have always had issues with valueplan and the DHF (we all do) but I think someone, that transfer of aggression of content discrimination is probably what pushed them to make that statement.
Secondly it could be the sentiment of the market, just like you've described here as well. For example, during the 2021 bull run, everyone forgot about the DV kings and the other issues and were busy bull posting, but in 2023 when the bull market hit, that's when they began to see issues.
This thing will keep repeating itself and people will always find new things to blame for sell pressure, or say things like the Blockchain is not competing with SUI or Solana or something shiny out there
So most times it's transfer of aggression I think. Thanks for the curation
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You can't gatekeep people, and you need various different content. If you don't like something, just ignore it and move on. There is no point in trying to be hypocritical. What you think is bad might be what another person enjoys. Overall, we need more users and give them a reason for not leaving. Gatekeeping content is not going to help the retention of users.
Yeah, it won't help when it comes to retention, but I guess some people have a different idea of what they think Hive should be. We can't gatekeep people, or undervalue what they create because it's not not tech.
Unfortunately, Hive sometimes seems to be in an overprotective state. It's difficult to expand starting from such a state, in any relevant areas, not only users.
Some of the people are the ones overprotective, the chain itself is supposed to be a form of network, especially on the social front.
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Why have you attracted these Mini dust downvotes?
I probably upset some Blurt lovers with some downvotes. They are milking tribe tokens with blurt.media account. They would milk some Hive too if they wouldn't be downvoted.
To get more users, you need a broad variety of topics, ok we have good and travel, but you don't attract more users with only this... If we had serious soccer experts or even economics (not crypto) or politics, more people would join to comment and share their opinions
You're right. soccer is a huge attention economy. I'm a huge fan of football and I know the attention and money it attracts