RE: Hive needs better feeds! Let’s build a custom Curation tool! (fundraiser)

the vast majority of your comic posts are actually relatively well paid.

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.