RE: Hive is great but it needs to evolve !
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Thanks for the comparison with other potential competitors like Deso. I remember when you first talked about it, you were more optimistic, but looks like, once you started using it, you discovered Hive is still much better.
I agree there's plenty to improve on Hive. Some may be easier than others. I've seen that post by @ura-soul too. If that was the experience of a new user, we can bet we would lose 99% of them, instead of them trying until they find a way in that works.
On retention, seems like people who are onboarded by someone they meet in real life and who were given a proper introduction to the ecosystem are more likely to keep going than the average onboarded user on Hive.
When listening to them, I can't shake the feeling that they sound like a sect...
I had the same impression sometimes, and such perception works against Hive instead of for it.
To make Hive great we don't need to persuade people to join. We simply need to make sure it's always getting better.
Agreed 100%. We can tell the world when we have something remarkable, so they won't miss it, but better make sure it's remarkable first to not lose them as soon as they arrive.
I was just pointed to DeSo myself today. They are VC backed and are openly lying about them being the first decentralised social media solution.
I have known about it for some time. I haven't bothered to check any competition of Hive. It seems like they all fail sooner or later, no matter how much money they have behind them or how much hype they stirred. They either turn into plain Web 2 - and there's enough competition there - or they try to mimic Web 3 and fail.
You may be right, but I think its a mistake to assume that none of these projects will succeed, since all it really takes is to copy Hive with more up to date technology and properly market it.
Yes, that is true, which means, as Achim also said, that we need to keep evolving. And yet, most of them try to reinvent the wheel, and that gives us time. Hopefully, we'll use that time well.
I've navigated the Deso platform for a couple of weeks and I was amazed to see how few people there had ever heard about hive. I'm not even sure that the ones running the platform have heard of hive... They have a big project running with focus.xyz that attracts a lot of funds and eyes. They got listed by crypto.com because of that and it didn't cost them a dime.
I have told them on social media now that Hive/Steem got there first, but I have zero expectation that anyone will pay any attention.
I am 99% sure the operators know about Steem and probably Hive. You don't enter into a marketplace and spend that kind of money without doing the most basic research.
The article by @ura-soul was a little shock I have to admit. So much energy flows in trying to onboard people and if account creation doesn't really work, then all this effort is more or less for nothing.
Yeah, unfortunately, I agree. What's worse is that most times, he, as a potential new user, couldn't understand why the process didn't work. There aren't enough explanations to tell the user if they did something wrong or what prevents them from going through the process. That's bad! With good error messages, maybe a FAQ or video walkthroughs if it's necessary, at least some of the users could understand what the problem is and fix it from their end if they want to have an account.