I wonder if more users are really needed? Or if the users that are there should be better rewarded, because a big part of the distribution of the cake is always taken by the same ones while the small users are hardly voted, nor taken into account.
I wonder if more users are really needed? Or if the users that are there should be better rewarded, because a big part of the distribution of the cake is always taken by the same ones while the small users are hardly voted, nor taken into account.
I think we definitely need more users, and just one example of why I think so is: look at the content on any of our front ends. Go compare trending videos on 3Speak, vs. YouTube. Not only in view counts, but also in topics.
On YouTube, you've got every niche represented. Here it's like 75% crypto talk (which, yeah, you'd expect a lot of crypto talk but that's really dominant), a fair chunk of musicians making videos, and ...miscellaneous for everything else.
We're just not going to see a big shift until "normies" are coming to read a blog they like or watch a video creator they like, yanno?
I rarely get upvoted enough on 3Speak to incentivise my continued uploading of content there. I am better off just making a normal post on Hive.
Most of the engagement I get is from Ecency waves.
We do need more users here, but there also needs to be more vloggers and just every day people being rewarded for being community minded.
We need more users. New users bring new ideas, activity, and networks. Dapps see this activity and build on Hive. Traffic grows and we become mainstream.
Mainstream brings investor's eyes, brings in capital from the outside.
See the price of $HIVE?
It will never change if we continue with this user base and the engraved dynamics they have.
Most projects here are using Discord and so very many Hive members are not using Hive to communicate. We need better discussion forums here so that we can properly communicate and build the community.