The centralized stake of early adopters is one problem as people flock to their votes and do what they think will catch the most attention.

Yup, 100% true. And i agree with you about evergreen content, peakd tried to address this with tipping, but it didn’t really take off.

It’s why i refuse to put any more fiction up here, it’s why my agent has point blank told me if i do they’ll drop me, it all comes down to losing first publishing rights on content that will only earn you ‘so much’ for 7 days.

Now if you’re getting hit with an appreciator/rancho/heijin type combo like some people are, maybe it becomes a moot point.

The centralized stake of early adopters is one problem. In terms of real users with large stake they mostly follow curation trails and put content at the mercy of a few select users that pick and choose what they deem to be quality.

Yes, I’ve noticed this, and if I’m honest there was a glorious summer last year (i think it was, or maybe 2021) when someone decided my content was worthy of having the monster vote trail hit it lol

There are so many complexities to deal with on hive for sure. I’m not sure i agree about content types moving to a layer 2 with their own token & community. I personally think that this would simply evolve into potentially very low value tokens being distributed to the actual content creators through these community layer 2 sites/tokens, while the early adopters made even more $$$$$$ using hive as a way to make passive income leasing resource credits. I’ve already seen one of the head honchos of a major curation guild talking about resource credit delegation markets.
Only time will tell how it all goes, but i do think that there are some very intelligent people one hive who have no idea how to bring the mainstream here.

There was a time a while ago when I thought steem hive could disrupt the publishing industry, but the opportunity was squandered a while ago. I remember when there was a team that did start a writing and publishing business but fell apart after their first release. I thought it could be the start of something big and bring in lots of new authors to work with them.

I actually know something about this. They went to steemfest 3 seeking some level of support and help developing a publishing house based upon steem authors and as far as i can tell, they were told to fck off. There was an issue that one of the two people were kinda trying to make a publishing house so they could publish their own book lol, but the other guy was genuine as far as i judged it.

Anyway, some of the drama I’ve witnessed on steem/hive could make an interesting novel for blockchain enthusiasts.