As I have mentioned a few times before, my Hive Journey is more about our 2nd layer communities than it is about top level Hive.

As a sort of "pet project," I have slowly been working my way through and "cataloging" the many active communities we have as part of the Layer Two ecosystem... at this point, I only care about the active ones. Of course, that's a very large endeavor... and something I will likely we working on for a long time.

Which Community Is for Me?

Anyway — as my username suggests — I had originally created this account to focus on PALNet and the PAL token... but, wouldn't you know it, that particular "tribe" more or less turned its back on content creation and curation a while back, leaving me hanging a bit!

Since then, I have focused my attention mostly on the Proof of Brain Community instead, and I consider it my Level 2 "home community" for now.

But it got me to thinking about the whole idea of loyalty, and how a part-time blogger would make the most of participating in Hive-Engine's "tribal" communities.

Is the best thing you can do to be loyal to a single venue, and focus on building your content and influece there, and only there? Or is it a better approach to "spread yourself" across a number of communities, doing a bit here, and a bit there?

As part of my explorations, there's little doubt that it would be far too much to try to participate in everything! That would just be nuts!

Follow Your Interests?

I suppose the obvious answer here — especially if you do have a genuine interest in ongoing blogging — is to simply follow your heart and your interests, and match your posts to whichever community seems to suit whatever you choose to write about.

In most cases, there really isn't a "right" or "wrong" approach.

The only thing I would consider "wrong" would be to post to irrelevant communities, simply for the purpose of hoping to score a few extra cents. Depending on the set-up of the community, it seems a possibility that you'll be "muted" by community managers.

And that's something to keep in mind with Hive's "interest based" communities... they are not really decentralized, which means that community organizers often do have the ability to filter certain content.

So don't be an uncontrolled "tag spammer!"

CAN We Add Value?

Ultimately, the only way any community token is going to "get legs" and become something is if that community is broadly perceived as adding value to a content creator's experience.

Otherwise, you end up with "the usual scenario," which consistes of people using and its token to earn a few cents and then immediately selling those tokens... and because there is no buy-side demand, the token price ends up in an eternal downwards spriral.

Not good.

Hence my conscious decision to power up at least 75% of the POB tokens I get as rewards, and I have never powered down any of the "colleague site" VYB Tokens either... even though they (sadly) seem to be slowly trending towards no-value.

Regardless, it's a very interesting journey we are all part of!

Thanks for visiting and having a look at my blog, and till the next one!

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