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RE: How Does A Blockchain Lose People?
Talking about Hive specifically here, social media people use it for fun, or at least quick and thoughtless and between the high standards, and authoritarian rules it often starts to feel like work instead of fun.
It helps us attract and also lose some very specific users. Busy middle income people don't have time to build an audience and don't have or need the patience to put up with the politics.
People who consider themselves authors will stay, because they love to write, but we certainly do limit our marketable base, by making it hard.
I know threads is coming and might normalize things a bit, but until threads I consider Hive more of an "Author" platform than social media. Social Media doesn't force people to write little essay style posts in order to engage and discuss a topic
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You're basically highlighting the fact majority online are, consumers. Creating content, anywhere, is hard, and often considered to be a form a work. Most people are not content creators. For instance, most people on Youtube are not there to spend several hours per day producing a video. They are there to spend several hours per day watching videos.
Most people at the book store (online or on the street) are not authors, yet the business thrives.
By far one of the most normal things we got going on here are content creators choosing to work and create quality content. That content is intended to be, consumed. Without that content and people actually wanting to, work, there are no consumers.
Content creators on Youtube often talk about how much they enjoy working hard to create quality content for their consumers. People here on Hive wanting to work hard and set the bar high, are not doing something wrong. That is not a flaw in design.
Thinking the content consumer and content creator should be on an even playing field somehow simply does not make any sense. How this platform rewards consumers though should be highlighted. Yes, some people work hard and want to create something others can't. That does not put the consumers at a disadvantage though if they are consuming what caught their attention naturally, as they do, all while being afforded the opportunity to earn, some, as well. That element is what sets this apart from other social platforms, where the consumers gets nothing but device addiction and a sore ass from sitting all day.
Over the years, I've seen you make this point many times, and it's a good place to evolve to, where the best content creators earn most of the rewards, and I can't disagree.
Personally, I think that would happen naturally with less interference and more volume.
Also supporting your view point is curation rewards, which does incentivize (in theory) consuming and rewarding content.
I don't think we have opposing positions, youtube also allows casual users and those who are still practicing content creation to post and it evolved over many years, I was on early youtube when much of the interaction was people creating videos for other users and the responses.
I agree with your statement, but also think it takes time to get to that vision.
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It's mind blowing to me how the powers that be haven't understood that yet.
Hive needs things like Threads that aren't meant to win Pulitzers. So aggravating when you see the potential this place can have but you are right, until the purists lighten up...Oh boy
!CTP
I think some of the largest whales aren't fans of the social side, and just don't care about it one way or the other.
There has often been a push to remove any Hive rewards and they don't see it as a viable way to grow the value of Hive, which in their mind is a utility token.
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