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Redditposh and why I think it is key for Hive future
Over the past weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Redditposh, and the results have been more than encouraging - driven by @acidyo and @x-rain. In fact, I see it as the only marketing initiative at the moment that actually moves the needle for Hive. While most of our community activity happens inside the blockchain, so posting, commenting, rewarding each other, the real challenge has always been the same: how do we get new people to discover Hive in the first place? Redditposh is one of the few mechanisms that delivers a concrete answer.
What Redditposh Actually Does
The concept is simple: share Hive posts on Reddit, generate visibility, and earn rewards for doing so. At first glance, it might sound like just another incentive scheme. But the difference here is that the traffic generated is external. It’s people outside our existing circle who see Hive content, who get curious, and who may eventually decide to join.
This is a critical distinction. Hive already has strong internal dynamics, but those dynamics are not enough to grow the ecosystem. A post on Hive might collect votes and payout without attracting a single new reader. From the outside looking in, that can look odd: content with very few comments or real interaction still earning significant sums. It can even open the door for criticism that Hive is a closed club where rewards are circulated among insiders.
Redditposh flips that script. It rewards efforts to expand Hive’s reach, not just to maintain its internal loops.
Quote from @acidyo which is also important (no DHF funds required/aasked for at all):
Another thing that may have not been mentioned here, authors still get some rewards for their post from @redditposh, the split is currently 80/20 with 80% going to sharer and 20% to the author. This also works on older posts as long as it's a new sharer sharing the post, meaning authors can generate rewards multiple times past the 7 day payout window if their post continues to generate views from different sharers and potentially shared in different subreddits.
Why External Traffic Beats Internal Views
Here’s where I want to be clear: I don’t see value in measuring Hive’s health by the number of internal views or the size of a payout. Views inside the platform often don’t translate into engagement, and payouts can happen with little genuine impact. What matters far more is whether new audiences are being reached, whether Hive is showing up in external conversations, and whether people outside our bubble are actually paying attention.
When some of the great folks here had Hive posts become some of the most viewed on the platform, we or I’ve also had to deal with criticism “lots of views, little engagement.” But if those views came from outside, then that’s exactly the kind of signal Hive needs. It shows our content can cut through and reach broader audiences. Contrast that with the so-called “circle jerk” posts that earn handsomely without ever leaving our backyard. Which one do you think is more valuable for Hive’s future?
Protecting Creators, Shaping Growth
This is why I support Redditposh not only for myself but also for others in the community. It gives creators a way to defend against unfair criticism when their posts achieve reach without traditional Hive engagement metrics. It shifts the focus from “how much did you earn from your friends’ votes?” to “how many people outside Hive did you bring in?”
That’s a healthier benchmark for everyone. It aligns individual incentives with the bigger picture: growth, visibility, adoption. And it opens the door to telling real success stories—something Hive has sometimes struggled with.
A Path Forward for Hive
If Hive wants to attract investors, businesses, and creators who are serious about building, it needs more than internal payouts. It needs proof of reach. It needs to show that the blockchain can generate real attention in the wider digital ecosystem. Reddit, with its countless communities and constant flow of discussion, is an ideal testbed. Redditposh harnesses that environment and points it directly at Hive.
I see this as more than just a side project—it’s an early blueprint for how Hive can bridge the gap between internal energy and external relevance. And I believe it deserves more recognition and support.
I’ll continue sharing my own experiences and results with Redditposh. But even beyond my personal case, I think it’s time we as a community put more weight behind initiatives like this. Not every experiment will work, but the principle is clear: traffic generation is more important than rewarding yet another internal post with no outside eyes on it.
Final thoughts
Hive has always been about more than payouts. It’s about building a decentralized space for creativity, conversation, and value exchange. But for that vision to mean anything, people need to know Hive exists. Redditposh is helping to make that happen. It protects creators, redirects focus toward real growth, and lays a foundation for broader adoption.
That’s why I support it—and why I think it should matter to anyone who wants Hive to thrive in the long run.
Kudos to the great people working their ass off on this initiative to create millions of views from Reddit - and Reddit values only good content and is massive - such as:
@theworldaroundme @davideownzall @tsnaks @dkkfrodo @loading @x-rain @rose98734 @flummi97 @blkchn @oldmans @melancholic.bear @memess @the01crow @cryptoreforma @acidyo @guurry123 @ifhy @hindavi @seattlea @iamchessguy @logen9f @nozem01
For more on how this works
I could talk an hour but please check the posts by @tsnaks who describes this in a fab post!
Fully agree!
And this initiative is even cheap in terms of DHF funds (I suppose) and does not create additional sell pressure.
I think we're sending out about 3k hive per week to sharers currently, these can all be tracked through @nomnomnomnom and @redditposh outgoing transfers. It's also important to note that posh itself is non-profit from my perspective, if I wanna earn something from it I have to share much like anyone else does (which I some times do but not too often) but I don't take a fee or have given myself tokens for having created it.
Only thing we spend hive on other than sharers and author share is development (devs get some small rewards for fixing things or implementing new things), maintenance (servers about $60 a month) and providing liquidity on the POSH token.
We also run a few contests for top sharers (weekly HBD rewards) along with HP delegations and have some plans to hopefully do more with author rewards we may generate to bring more people to hive. Currently not doing so much in that regard as price of hive is very low.
Yeah, also a driver as it is totally transparent
Yes - no funding required - DHF is for the other projects that are sometimes good and some might be useless :-)
I mean we do require funding but it's coming from the author rewards pool currently, I think it's not really a bad thing as generally it could be used better as well.
I know but that should be fine given @redditposh is paying back to the guys sharing on reddit and even the authors of the original post
To add here @acidyo (might need to add as well in the post) - the rewards and votes redditposh receives are driving the initiative - in case people complain for votes there
Thanks for this post and potential new users trying their hand at sharing, for those I suggest to follow @x-rain's weekly contest posts where he also shares some tips for beginners and to check the pinned post on @poshtoken for already tested subreddits you could share hive posts in relevant to the subject of the post that won't instantly delete links to "lesser known websites".
Another thing that may have not been mentioned here, authors still get some rewards for their post from @redditposh, the split is currently 80/20 with 80% going to sharer and 20% to the author. This also works on older posts as long as it's a new sharer sharing the post, meaning authors can generate rewards multiple times past the 7 day payout window if their post continues to generate views from different sharers and potentially shared in different subreddits.
We also monitor sharing activity closely, we ban some attempting from multi-account use as it goes against our limited voting power wanting to distribute rewards fairly albeit with many different factors based on the shares' performance but without encouraging share spamming and bringing bad light to hive links.
Hopefully reddit continues to allow free API access for our activity and won't do what Twitter does in the near future, or at least make the cost reasonable so this iniative can continue working. For other shares that we can't automatically fetch and display we're attempting to use the @peakd snaps feature under the HivePOSH community to reward shares on other social media platforms, currently curated by @shiftrox along with the #gosh initiative (which instead of rewarding people for promoting hive, asks other hivers to help promote a certain post such as on twitter, instagram, etc and rewards those participating). Reddit is not included in #gosh however as that'd be against the rules of the website and called brigading.
Welcome - this is great program! Indeed i did not mention the fair split (80/20 with 80% going to sharer and 20% to the author.) - Will add that to the post tomorrow.
I also hope Reddit continues to allow API access. :)
Great post! RedditPosh is the giant pathway of success for HIVE!
True dat mate!
Good write-up, our dear @uwelang, and well done! Hiveposh isn’t just about views, it’s about creating connections. The Hive community is what makes Hive feel like home, but if we want to grow, sharing our content on platforms like Reddit is a very important bridge to the outside world.
I also agree that quality matters. Sharing well-thought-out content on Reddit helps avoid the “spam” perception and shows Hive in the best possible light. That’s something we should always keep in mind. It isn’t just about how much we share, but how we share.
So cheers to everyone on keeping this going, especially the Hiveposh participants, along with @acidyo and @OCD. I only wish more people who are able would support this amazing initiative, as we continue to carry it forward for the benefit of the entire community. :)
Agree, Hive Posh is a very good and effective initiative to bring more views and attention for hive, but it's sometimes really hard on reddit to get the subreddit and tone right, hive posts get easily censored there.
Yes -Reddit is challenging and they want high quality content not every shit post, most are pretty smart on Reddit and even web2 they are truely decentralized with hundreds of subreddits with different rules etc. That is the challenge, time to invest but also more fun in engagement as here on Hive - I wrote a post about that recently "Is our content good enough to attract new users - especially on Reddit"
https://peakd.com/hive-197333/@uwelang/hive-onboarding-does-our-content-really-attracts-new-users
Reddit hates blogs in general and most Hive content is seen as blog or shotcoin website - Reddit is more news driven and if blog content it shall be ideally well-throught and with good sources.
thanks for the post, hopefully more people will join or at least get to know what we are doing
Yes, also to find out how hard it is and that we need other content as we publish usually on Hive.
Yes understand how hard it is too, some subreddits expect an excellent quality in the post
I tried my luck in reddit, but just as in HIVE, it takes a long time to build a working connection there. And I prefer HIVE to Reddit, so it doesn't make much sense to build a reddit account only to promote HIVE. But still, I think you're right - long term or constant exposure to new people, new eyes, new ideas will bring more people in than the incestuous auto- and echo-chamber votes.
That said, I started sharing my blog entries on Facebook. Not much until now, but some reflective comments from time to time, a travel blog here and there, things that interest the people that follow me on Facebook. Not too much, so I don't saturate it, and always content oriented - just a few perks that HIVE has as footnote. We'll see how that goes, maybe if I do it long enough, people will become curious.
There is not much incentive to join, though, without the earnings part. I try it through the uncensored/no advertising/no suggestion algorithm part, but I doubt that's enough to have people try to go through the whole key-keychain-register-login odyssey. So, my second approach is transactions, through distriator and such. Though enthusiastic, I try to take it slow, as I don't want to spook people :-D
Sure, do it slow - when i started I also used Facebook but totally different, they do not get it - in terms of adoption / knowledge / brain for blockchain/crypto I think Reddit is the best social media, even web2 pretty decentralized and smart people there.
I have more engagement there as on Hive and content needs to be a bit different, more news driven, research-based and the word "blog" is what we need to avoid as they see it mainly as spamming
I'll keep that in mind thank you!
#hive #posh