First time I believe I've come across you so hello!
I've been sharing my music, some travel posts and beginners guides since I joined 2 years ago and it does take time to get noticed but you can say that about any site, crypto or not. You don't just turn up on soundcloud and Spotify for example and expect to have a million hits in the first week.
There is an initiative called @trendthis which is highly supportive of long form content and is strictly not looking at crypto/hive related stuff to get on to the trending, which is our shop window but completely dominated by Hive stuff.
As one of the comments said, I've been trying to grow my account as well so that my upvote might be worth something but have also delegated a lot to curie to help with their manual curation.
I might write a post about content discovery and using the right tags because people just post in some communities for the rewards and not in communities to have like minded people with a similar interest comment on them.
Anyway, there's lots still to work on and the foundations are hive are still being set. This does feel different and I have definitely seen increased engagement in my posts than vs steem.
Hello back!
I'm not new to this rodeo, nor to self promotion on the internet. which is why I say flat out that a small site like this, as new as it is...needs to start giving us a reason to use it. There are a dozen others out there with larger bases of users...I can post on Instagram (just as an eample) anytime I want and have several thousand eyeballs on it and several hundred interactions. and so can other creatives...we know what we're doing, does hive? They need us more than we need them
I've left comments on other posts of a similar vein but really, what is Hive? To me, this is what makes the most sense.
I think Hive is the blockchain and code used as the foundation layer to build other things on top of and therefore THAT should be the marketing of Hive itself - to developers, app builders, platform designers etc.
Then those dapps themselves need to find their own niche and market their dapp that uses the Hive foundation. For example, things like Travelfeed for content related to travel, PeakD for bloggers, Dsound for music lovers etc etc...
True, but you could also say that if no-one used Instagram or any other site. All these platforms need users but why should users go to these platforms in the first place?
These are just rhetorical questions and my own thoughts but I'm more of a "serious hobbyist" (i.e. not a pro but enjoys what he does and takes it seriously enough to put his best effort in to things) and I'm enjoying being around here for the time being.