If being in the top20 gets you to post more often like this I'm all for it :D
Nice to hear some thoughts/rants at appropriate times!
I've been saying for years now that we should market to other communities that don't have something like Hive and could use it. Even though we're down in the depths price-wise, I can tell you that none of the gods unchained players I invited years ago thought hive was a "waste of time", some of them are still around but naturally there's not enough activity here to maintain them - rewards or not.
This is also a reason we've shifted a lot of our voting power towards spending it on our onboarded users and posh activities. While it's nice to reward those active and putting in effort and time into the chain, there's a lot of stake voting so they're ought to be picked up by other stakeholders over time, but we felt a lack of new users and we decided to do what we can to make their start into this journey as rewarding as possible and see how many stick around and more importantly, how many we can get to join as those can come back later now that they have an account. POSH has also been doing great even though you can't tell if it's actually bringing in new users. We can tell it's bringing traffic to our posts and redditor's don't hate it compared to the shit that gets shared there on a daily basis plastered with ads or hidden behind paywalls.
It'd be nice if more stakeholders cared about what they're rewarding, if the authors they're rewarding care about being consumed and for people to care about the rewards they're earning so they don't just easily get rid of them for some other shitcoins or fiat if they're beaing earned so easily that they think they're worthless or that they can earn them forever.
This is so much of my approach now, but it's an absolute struggle trying to get dapps and quick tools on board--going out to chains and communities and creators and saying, hey look, here's our stack and it does stuff that nothing you have right now is good at. Start adding it in, use it monetize, backup, and solve some of the problems that are too fiddly and expensive to do elsewhere. Use it as your syndication CMS and mint new rewards to people who come and comment on a blog post on your site the don't even realize is Hive attached. Create blockchain based link trees or a series of public hashes and meme calls that are time stamped and flex them on pump later. Build out a public collection of WHATEVER you want that becomes a voluntary id that doesn't require zk obfuscation because it's not carrying sensitive personal data, but rather the pieces of real human activity that represent the opposite of the dead, ai slop, enshittified Internet.
It's possible, but it's hard, and we have a lot (A LOT) of work to do to keep making sure all the good stuff we have is positioned to not actually have to compete with some of the safe/sanctioned high level financial tools that will be the next vector to suck up capital. Just going to keep pushing forward on it and have a giant notebook full of things to do and ways to try to help everyone here get it and all the other things they thing matter done. Now I'm ranting too, THANKS MAHDI 😂. On the plus side, I felt quite glorious and non-ranty when I had enough oomph to vote you over the line last night, even though it flipped again quickly. People better get it together and vote the way I prefer already, geez
I agree with you and support the posh movement. Like we don't need to pretend we are the next ETH. We can provide the social platform for ETH users. Embracing the crypto community is a bit hard I guess for some people here. CT wouldn't survive here. Which is our strongest target audience. Crypto people don't post vlogs of them walking around. They shit post. They not gonna write you an essay or give you quality content. Their top quality post is hentai.
We can have shortform content too, if someone big were to join and enough curators are checking out snaps I don't think people would care if a comment is earning $50 even at these prices if it's vitalik posting for instance.
We have a lot to offer them but we've fallen behind the limelight so much that very few influential people are going to bother to learn more about hive at this stage. It'd be hard to even pay influential people to truly learn hive and wanna work for it at this point.
But it's never too late for hive, we just gotta start doing things that will eventually get us somewhere. Most of the current spending i don't believe has been that.
I think we should do it the other way around. Short content being the main content and having optional articles just like twitter.
Curators don't matter. Vitalik or anyone else doesn't tweet to satisfy a whale or whatever to get a vote. You post for engagement. You post on twitter for money? No. Sometimes you want to have a chance at the engagement machine.
If you post and get no views, why even post? You want eyes. To get eyes you have to open the gates.
Another unrelated version of Rant coming out right now. Recently I saw on telegram the guide wizard provided someone to create an account. I just lost it. I wonder if Ethereum had the same onboarding as we do, would it even take off? Creating an account is insane. This deserved to be in the main post with a lot more rant. Fuck.