Maybe I'm not the best guy to answer that question.....
The inflation and economics of everything on this blockchain goes way over my head. Anytime people tried to explain all the intricacies of 'the cut off', the HBD / Hive ratio, or whatever it was called...I just stared blankly into space. This is what I understood when it came to Hive...
Show up. Put in value. You will get value in return.
Simple.
To me, that is what I tried to get across when I was building on chain. I brought my online community over and trained them in this new utopian blockchain base community and boy, was I ever fired up! If you met me in person at any of the events that this blockchain community put on, you knew...I lived for this stuff! Hive was my life, and I gave everything I could to it.
I believed in it. And I wanted the world to know, real #web3 had a home here.
That was my 'speech'. I never spoke about the tech. I honestly didn't care if the chain bragged about being 'decentralized', I just wanted it to be easy to use. I never cared about 3 second transaction speed, I just wanted it to work. All of it was great, but when push came to shove, all I wanted to show the world was that if you showed up, became a part of the community, added value, you got it in return.
I spent quite a bit of time browsing all the popular topics that are trending on $HIVE right now....And there's plenty of really smart people giving their opinions on what we need to with the APR of HBD, or maybe we should increase the APR on HP....That's cool.
However, I think people miss what made Hive....Hive.
Remember when we split from Steem? What happened? The community came together!
Remember the growth and excitement that happened on all the offline events? The community came together!
Notice a pattern?
When you focused on the community, this place was alive.
However, when you start making it not feel like home...People leave. And I'm sure someone will say, only the abusers of the chain have left....
I dunno. I have seen plenty of amazing entrepreneurs get run off this chain just because they did things differently. I saw content creators being slammed because 'short form content' had no future, and here we are now seeing that indeed...Short form content is what works online. Oh boy oh boy, the fight against AI here is....Incredible to witness.
Want to see Hive explode?
Let people come here, feel at home, build a tribe or two and don't run them off.
Support as many people as you can, and for me it still remains....Show up, add value, value is returned.
I think if we all focus on that more, and less on 'protecting the inflation' or whatever the smart people say will save $HIVE we'll be in a great spot.
As my good buddy @taskmaster4450le has said for years....
If your chain or community is growing by 200% a year, who cares about 10% inflation!
Or something like that.....He's a lot smarter than me ;)
I know, I know....
I can hear the people with pitchforks approaching!
It's a lot more complicated than that they say And maybe it is. But I have always maintained in my 25 years of building businesses online, when you focus on the people, you will always win!
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I don't have any insightful or useful input here... But well said
In its current state, Hive is dead to me. HIVE as a token has been dead for a long time sadly.. Also barely usable in the US at all.
Inleo/leodex is the answer. the rest is just vaporware designed for the few people left on Hive
agree its all about protecting the rewards for the large holders making sure not one post gets to much to they can suck it up in there bags lol. Have waste of space projects driving ppl away like hive watchers somone needs to watch them and defund that shit.
Emphasizing community and teamwork is what makes Hive unique. By building a welcoming environment for all, we can experience amazing growth and creativity.
This is so deep @jongolson 🙏🙏🙏
Excellent reflection. Inclusivity and hospitality have not been HIVE's strong points. All the people I've introduced here—none of whom had double accounts, all intelligent people—have been greeted poorly, and Hivewatcher has scared some away. HIVE is good and evil. The two forces are balanced, in fact, there is no growth. This is my opinion
I agree with your outlook. If we could get a steady supply of new users and retain as many as we could using community, Hive would be doing much better. I just feel that driving people away without attracting more new people doesn't help much.
i agree with everything you said here. and the "people" with pitchforks is more like one or two whales. the problem of new comers being run off can be fixed by small change on the front end without even touching the chain. but oh well..
The more communities the better, I do agree with that. But content will stay king. And whit content I do mean diverse content. Not the content lots do produce daily to get their auto upvotes (sometimes I also fall for that), or the content that is based on the content of the whales to get their attention.
I more think that we do miss the diversity, the more divers, the more people will feel welcome and after a time maybe at home. And yes, this starts with new users and appreciating them. But how many of us, me included, neglect new users, or just don't find the new users, which could have great content in a nice you do appreciate.
Maybe we should start trying to find new authors, here on the blockchain, because they are here, but mostly neglected or undiscovered.
You can argue that these need to reach out, but that is also hard for them and does take time, and humans aren't good in waiting and aren't willing to put in the hard work.
When you look through the glasses of a newcomer, you will notice voting communities, post which are just plain plagiarism and still get a decent value, none saying posts with opvotes without adding any value to the blockchain. This does decrease the motivation for most, some will continue to engage and survive, but the most will quit leave it behind, which is the worst advertisement we could have.
But hey that's only my point of view.
Things have changed a lot since i joined. Though it was hard in those days to understand, there was help within the community.
Now, tech have started to get easier, maintaining the communities has got harder.
Many communities have fallen or disappeared.
New users come in daily and disappear as the support and belonging is getting thinner everyday
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Yes, I do. It's clear the whales don't. The question is, why don't they want to see many people in Hive?