Greetings fellow Felines and Hoomans of the Hive!
Once again, we have arrived at the weekend, and it's time to observe that it is CATURDAY, which just happens to be my favorite day of the week... even though most days around here are actually day-of-the-cat!
Caturday is an almost 17-year old web tradition, so bring out all those cute cat and kitten photos!
"Still life with cat and picture frame"
In the spirit of the current Hive "Selfie craze," here's a nice portrait shot. I still struggle a bit with selfies because of the whole lack-of-opposable-thumbs thing, so this will have to do.
However, I bring this up because it's precisely the sort of initiative we need to make Hive more "approachable" to a more mainstream user.
What do you want?
CATS are another important aspect of building community!
How so? Well, LOTS of people keep cats, it's an easy piece of non-technical content to share, AND cats have sort of grown into the web's unofficial "totem animal."
Again, an easy way to participate.
Even the smallest sunny spot matters....
Of course, there are those who will argue that selfies and cat photos constitute low effort posting... but I have a feeling that would all pretty much sort itself out.
Consider that if Hive suddenly had even 100,000 ACTIVE posters, the rewards pool would be shared among that many more people, so it's not as if people would suddenly be making a mint off a few photos.
Just consider this post: It took about 50-60 photos to get three decent ones, and it's unlikely the rewards will be more than the price of a can of cat food. Not exactly extravagant!
Anyway, I wish you all a wonderful Caturday, wherever you may be... and remember to ask your Hooman for extra pats and treats today!
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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!
If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?
These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!
HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!
Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!
Caturday by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!
Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS!
Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community.
Last but certainly not least, don't forget the dPet Community created by @kona, which is the original pet related "channel," and which typically also has lots of cat photos! This is also the home of the Daily Pet Photography challenge!
There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!
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Here's that #posh thing to prove that I was roaming around on twitter:
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Hello @curatorcat ! I'm Kelsey, the hooman. I'm still rather new to the Hive but I am getting more comfortable and getting to know my way around, a little at a time.
My cat, Juhani, would like some space on here as well and I've been wanting to introduce her on a Caturday! Today would be a perfect day and would like to create a post as a response to yours. Would it be okay with you that I use the Hive cats logo/photo in my post? We have appreciated each Caturday we've seen of yours.
Also, the first tag #caturday, would that suffice for an official Caturday post, verified by none only than @curatorcat ? 😺
Hi there Kelsey and Juhani, glad to have you as part of the Hive community! It does take a little time to get yourself oriented here... little more complex than Facebook.
It's great that you want to be part of the Caturday movement! Using #caturday as your first tag is a great way to go to get your post properly indexed. You can also join @saboin's Caturday Community and share your post there.
Yes, you're more than welcome to use the HiveCats image!
Have a great Caturday!
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Meow, meow, meow