I used to love Steem.
His idea made me fall in love. And i worked so bad!
But Steem had an anchor, called Steemit. His "leadership" was basically an eternal "cost adjustment". Layoffs and outsourcing.
Steemit wanted as a means to be a corporation, however this would be the natural end, they started the other way around. Development virtually stalled.The plan was basically to pay for the natural inflation with speculative investments and never EVER productive (God forbid, let the communities do that).
To be a decentralized project it had taken a standard corporative course, with a discourse of perpetual adjustment but never of expansion, just in that they were not corporative.
The public (us) expected announcements that would solve the needs of those of us who dedicated time and resources to the platform. All we got was a ridiculous CEO who played (badly) the guitar. Steemit and its policies were dedicated exclusively to snobbery and superficiality.
The speculators, without any love for the project, only saw Steem as a money machine where they sat on their dollars hoping that without any effort it would grow at predatory rates.
Go to a f***ing bank, losers.
Projects like Hive need a committed and dedicated community. Projects like Hive will only be the reflection of those who build it day by day. We need to build a sense of unity among the users, we need to be the evangelizers of the crypto. The project we evangelize is also our meeting point and perhaps our way of living and developing.
I embrace this new initiative with enthusiasm. I hope that you will move away from corporatist ideas and thoroughly exploit this very intelligent system with infinite applications.
Hive has to succeed where Steem failed and not where they make you believe it failed. We have a social network where you earn money for participating, that this project is not an option in the market is thanks to the absolute invisibility.
Everyone would like to use Hive, only Hive is not on the menu.
The only advertising that works, the one that is intensive, repetitive, maddening and therefore, EFFECTIVE. Like it or not, it is the only way to make a project visible and to make it massive. Advertising on Youtube, advertising on apps, advertising on websites, on social networks, hiring (or creating) influencers.
I don't know the economic situation of Hive, I know that what I propose is degeneratedly expensive. But there are alternatives. I proposed it some time ago, maybe it's not the most orthodox way to advertise, but it does meet the above mentioned requirements of repetitive and maddening. It is necessary to coordinate a weekly activity where all active users of the community share their favorite Hive post or a few lines about what is Hive and why others should join. I made a proposal that went unnoticed HERE some time ago (I tried to make it massive but failed miserably). I doubt that it is an effective solution, but I think that it is an idea that we could develop and promote so that everybody joins this new nascent enterprise.