On those platforms, users could post seemingly anything, and if they've got good following they could get thousand or likes and hundreds of comments. Now, those are worth something on Hive not Instagram.
But then, what's the probability that if they joined the Hive and made that same post, that they are going to get the same reaction. To be fair the probability is zero.
as someone who likes your photography, and i seen that you sometimes struggle with lack of engagement (as most of photography people do here, because a lot of the times there is not that much to comment on those posts than "great photos", "really liking this"... and because we usually don't like to criticize (that i find ridiculous, if you see something that could be done better pleas tell) i think you are wrong in that part that i quoted.
try opening new instagram (youtube) account, and not telling about it to people you know. and start posting photos. how engaging would your posts be? you would need to be extraordinary artist and you will still need a push to get some decent following from just posting. seen a lot of really good artists that don't have crazy amount of followers.
You are quite correct @bil.prag. Wether it's on Instagram, YouTube, or here on Hive, working is very essential to finding success on any of the aforementioned platforms.
Putting it this way, I think the problem is the misconception that comes from how Hive is promoted. So most people think that they are entitled a certain level of value to anything they put out.
that was interesting selling point (especially when it was 5$) to get people to join, but it was not a good selling point for people to stay because of expectations.
When i joined in January 2018 and seen some posts that earned 250-500$ i thought to myself "if they earn that with this posts, i will be a millionaire" :D
I laughed so hard at this. I almost wanted to type my reply in Nigerian pidgin. I'd do that anyway. I'd have replied "E be things".