Hey! It is good to see your honest opinion about blogging!
So in the spirit of openness let me share that I recently gave up posting pinmapple stories. Let me explain why - imagine me spending hours on my computer selecting and post-processing some of my best travel photographs then spending a couple more hours writing my own words to describe what I saw, felt, etc.
Frankly, I cannot compete anymore with people who create much longer articles than mine, with copy-pasted info (sourced or not, it doesn't matter) or generated by AI. I realize that all curator in that lovely travel community must be very busy but my time is precious too. I hope there is a good solution to not rewarding pasted or AI-generated texts but until then I'll focus on the visual part. HIVE has changed a lot in the last year, and IMO, not in the best possible way. As yourself, I am very thankful to HIVE and all the people on the platform and up until recently my heart was beating with HIVE but lately it is more and more turning from passion into a bank, where I just hold some money...
Have a great day and keep it up!
!DHEDGE
Focusing on the visual part is good! Your photos are stunning, as always, and I agree that competing with copy-pasted and AI content is futile. It's like swimming against the current. But it's good to throw in some long-form content from time to time. Not anyone but for yourself. That's what I always tell myself. That one day in the future, all I have is the time to read what I've written on this platform.
Looking at Hive as a bank is not bad, either. It's even the best bank out there. I always tell myself to look for a new job and just treat Hive as a side hustle, but I still fail in that area.
Thank you!
Yes, you're right about that, no other bank gives 20% interest :D
I am pretty sure that are only a handful of people who read longer posts but that appears to be hive's dogma - the longer the more rewarded.
I clearly remember one of my longer travel posts when I used this combination of strings: <3 and thus I hit a bug that showed the count of words in my post as 38, instead of what was the real value of nearly a thousand. Guess what - that post was barely rewarded. That was a clear evidence to me most people just check the word count and even don't read or enter the post itself lol... That bug was fixed after I reported it to both peakd and ecency but the feeling remains :) Anyway.
I believe that quantity over quality is very bad for content in the long run. Especially when people use content that isn't their own. Why would we need all sorts of shit already existing elsewhere.
Unique and exclusive content will make HIVE stand.
And that's the source of my frustration - I have created content exclusively for HIVE in the last years, Sometimes HIVE is the only place I put my photographs and stories. I am a stubborn blogger but check my post rewards - none of the big whales supports me directly. Probably I've said something or I am trying to be too independent but if everyone claims content is the most important thing here, well, this just doesn't make any sense to me. Or maybe the whales are giving me a hint I am no longer welcome here. Can't say for sure.
I am exactly in your position - Hive was aiding my daily life in a nice way, providing food and some extras for my household. Lately I can only pay the gas for my car that I spend driving to do the grocery shopping...
So I really get your pain. But once it turns from passion to side-hustle there comes the evaluation of the ratio of time spent and income.
I wish you find your dream job! :)