Yes, for Hive to go "mainstream" it most definitely needs to be more newbie-friendly. Maybe there needs to be a "newbie" frontend. Somewhere new users could go and get questions answered. Find tutorials on how to do things. Maybe walk them through creating posts step-by-step, including how to upload images, links, etc. Provide links to tools they can use. Pixabay, the meme one, hive-Buzz, block explorer, etc. Even have some sort of "chat" function that they could use to ask questions and, ideally, get a small reward for using it.
You could even "gamify" the beginning to a certain extent. Earn 1 Hive for completing such and such a step. Earn 100 delegated Hive for completing 10 steps. Teach people how to bookmark frontends and then allow them to earn rewards for "exploring" different tribes. Instead of giving badges for 10 comments and 50 comments and 100 comments, give them 1 Hive, 5 Hive, 10 Hive. This could all come out of the DHF budget at least initially. I also think a lot of users on here would be willing to donate or delegate to a project like this.
Realistically, there could almost be a token created that would feed the newbies. I think about how LBI and UTOPIS pay dividends. If you created a token that strictly curated the "newbie tribe" with it's curation rewards and then the "investors" would get maybe small dividends and price appreciation, it might be something some of the dolphins and whales would fund.
I mean, the saying is, give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Hive shows people the fish and then throws boats, poles, tackle, bait, reels, lures, rods, nets, and sunscreen at them all at once and says, "Here you go. All you need to feed yourself for a lifetime. Just figure it out." Is it any wonder most people would rather just buy the fish and eat it?
Anyway, just throwing out ideas. I'm not much of an implementation guy but I do tend to come up with a good idea here and there. Take it for what it's worth.
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Some of these ideas are really good! I agree that even after the challenge which is getting a login, then you need to know so many things to post something and get votes. What should you tag? What community to post in? Do I need to be in Discord as well? It's just a ton of confusing things, and because it's hard to do it right, then people will skip the whole thing.
Not sure about the newbie token, but why not?
That's actually a great idea really. Set up a hive tribe for crypto newbies. If enough effort was put in you could make it a landing space for all people wanting to learn more about decentralisation, crypto, Web3. It would need to be super simple but could have its own simple toke isation for people to learn with different items to spend it on.
If the project was built well enough you could get other crypto communities to sponsor lessons and learning material for their projects. Get telos to sponsor so much for users to set up a telos wallet and join a certain app.
Complete so many lessons and earn a splinterlands starter pack. Logins would need to be twitter/Facebook and everything else complicated to be hidden. Just set up a good learning system and give the option for them to explore anything else they want in crypto.
People want to learn more so having a site where they can like coinbase did with their earning site could work very well.
The front ends should provide help to newbies. Where are the tutorials to get them started? Giving rewards for activity is tricky as people will try to game that for profit. If they are doing the right things they can earn anyway from the votes of others.
The front ends should also be generous in telling people what other options there are. Someone who signs up through LeoFinance may want to blog about other things or play games. When you go there it is not even obvious that it runs on Hive. There are lots of dapps now and they should be easier to find with 'Built on Hive' branding.
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