I still don't understand why crossposting beneficiaries was nixed.
That was genius.
I stopped using communities after that, and as far as I can tell, so did everybody else.
Excepting the brown nosers, of course.
If I paid for friends, I'd have more, too.
Put me down as in favor of the paywalls, that is good thinking, too.
Lot's of people here punching below their weight.
Let them find their value behind a paywall.
Communities are still heavily used more than ever. Most exciting featire hive has imo
But yes paywall will be a great option for really good content creators who have content people truly appreciate
Yes, communities is a great thing since we don't have a viable search, but I can't help but be sickened by all the sycophancy.
Add in that these are the biggest voters in the pool, and it makes everybody that doesn't buy into their clique's bs at a disadvantage compared to a pool that was every person for themselves.
They centralize who gets rewards.
Who gets the rewards?
People that conform to the dictates.
Not a characteristic I would like to see encouraged.
They do make content finding easier, though.
Then the biggest issue is still that Hive Reward Pool carries that much weight on people. We are for sure moving toward bringing other mechanisms to reward communities and user that don't have to do with that very small and limited hive inflation that goes to the Hive Reward Pool. It's such a small ammount that it's a distraction at best from everything else that's amazing about communities.
Yes, I will be glad when defi takes center stage rather than blogging about defi.
Hive-engine is doing that with diesel pools and market maker bots, while Leo is making headway with eth and bsc fans.
Someday soon™ the real rewards will be in providing liquidity to the various markets.