RE: There is no Attention Economy on Hive

I came into this thinking that I had found a like minded group that wanted to build an alternative economy using crypto.

I think there was more interest in it in the past. I think a lot of people had motivation. I'm not sure what happened, I guess many moved on, many just gave up. Or perhaps many suffer from the 'idea guy' syndrome but don't have the skills. All of which are fine. It happens. But it is sad to see that we aren't building like we used to. When I was trying to get things going, I even asked people on Hive if they knew anyone that might want to contribute, the requests just got ignored. I get your frustration for sure, and I don't blame anyone for trying and packing things up. Even outside of Hive I think it's common.

The other thing is a lot of those people did move on from Hive. Some of the best people I knew on here are no longer present.

I think it's funny you brought up OCD, Acid was the one that came at me with the cherry picked post when I was bitching on X about the lack of real engagement, lol. I was never one to try and get involved with him or his group because it comes with a level of ass kissing that I absolutely refuse out of fear of his downvotes. Nope, not this dude.

I have a lot of opinions on it all. I'm so sick of Hive drama though that I won't bother mentioning them. I do consider the years of daily curation I gave a waste of time. And I think many others that are/were in the same thing feel it now too. Hive has a lot of people working stupidly hard but not really getting anything out of it. Whether it's people posting or people trying to build something. It's a massive flaw that we have that leads to so many burning out and just saying fuck it and moving on.

Again our biggest problem being we can hardly keep people around. So a lot of projects with great intent and features just aren't used. There's no audience for it. We really need less internal fighting and drama and more ways of listening to each other and trying to figure out the broader problems. Not scrambling to fight over who is selling their Hive or drama over holding power over certain things.

It doesn't help that many people choose to mind their own business and do their own thing but still end up being targeted because of someone's differing opinions on how things should be done here. Putting your head down and just using Hive as it is intended doesn't even keep you safe from the drama anymore.

Hivelist

Massively underrated platform on here. I've been needing to use it myself, slowly putting together a digital photo book of some of my travels. It's taking forever though. But it's genuinely surprising that there aren't people finding ways to interact with it. Though again: the people that are really doing well on here are a specific type of person; mostly posting about finance or general blogging. They aren't the creator type. They don't understand that economy, they are bloggers, a people of another era. And it's the total opposite of those people that we are missing. We need more creator people. More musicians, artists, designers, filmmakers. Aaaaand again: we can't find the right ways to support them in the first place. So that's why they're not here.