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RE: There is no Attention Economy on Hive
Think of it this way, can you remember the last post that you read, the last video you watched, or the last music you listened to -- was it on hive and did it have any meaning to you?
Given my interest in photography I still have some connection to many posts I stumble across. But yeah, the blogging side of things is significantly less interesting to me. In terms of videos? None. This place doesn't have the right support for videos still, the time it takes to shoot something and upload it with Hive exclusivity is pointless. It remains best to build your YouTube channel and just link the video here in a post. Especially given the seven (one because so few will bother voting after 24 hours) day window of curation. Plus, nobody is really viewing videos to begin with, there's too few people on here for a video to actually be interesting enough for someone to watch the whole way through.
I have often reached burnout with certain topics I'd enjoy writing about because the engagement wasn't there, that was due to the nonexistent interest people had in the subjects. Too thin of an audience for there to be anyone with anything to say about it. The plus side of an algo on web2.0 is that it'll at least push that to someone with a similar interest. Here? It just gets buried for good.
Perhaps we should start sharing content that would pull readers into hive possibly?
All of us here (including me) complain a lot about no-one coming here -- but none of us share anything worth reading.
Perhaps that should change first then the rest will follow :)
I think we're a bit stuck in some ways. The rest of the Internet is pushing for short form content. People do engage massively with the topics we share here on Hive elsewhere. For example, the photography I have posted here that gets little engagement actually surprisingly performs well on Tumblr of all things! And on things like Twitter or Instagram/Threads, there is an algo which will slowly shape a feed for you and promote similar topics to you. Which means the same for your posts, eventually someone will see it and engage with it. And those are posts that have less than 100 words to them, sometimes even no words at all!
Social media has changed massively in the past five years in particular, and Hive in some ways was/is ahead of the game, but in other ways we're actually now behind. Some people can now make a living on web2.0 from something that costs next to nothing. On Hive, to make $1000 you may have to post daily for an entire year. Whereas someone in their bedroom making art tutorials can make that in a month. There's luck involved (even here), of course. But maybe my point is coming across?
But there's also the video side of things. Most of this short form content comes in the form of imagery now. Either literal images or videos. We don't really have the tools for this, and people end up just linking YouTube videos here. Naturally, because YouTube is easy to use and also offers growth on there too. But on here, that 7 (one) day window will screw you over. No more reach after that. Which also brings in the quality problem: would you spend an entire week preparing a high quality video with good lighting, good videography and lots of research and editing just to post it here and maybe make $20, or would you post it to YouTube and link here knowing that the YouTube channel, while making nothing at first, could grow in time? Then there's the question that's big now of what can a person do with the rewards? All that effort but you'll get downvoted for cashing it out? Not gonna work.
And through a lot of these teething problems, we end up quite limited in what we can create here, without burning out or getting discouraged. We are human after all ;^)
I think I remember peakd talking about an ad revenue concept a while back, which I think would actually be really beneficial to certain people in that sense. If we could work hard on creating engaging content that does appeal to the masses, while properly getting rewarded for it, we'd see a creator economy on here boom. People reinvesting into their gear and skills to improve. More engagement as the topics change and people can get rewarded even for niche posts since they'd get discovered and picked up on web2.0, bringing in that ad revenue.
What do you have in mind for this anyway? I rambled on quite a bit haha, but yeah maybe there's something I could do as well
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