Excited for this new change!

in #hive4 years ago

I haven't posted to Steemit in a very long time and it's because of two reasons:

  1. My drive in the blogging and video making space just isn't where it used to be.

  2. STEEMIT became a centralized cesspool of whales upvoting other whales. I hope to see a change from that here on Hive.

I always love seeing new projects develop in this space and STEEM was one of those projects that I wanted to see thrive. It became evident after the first couple of years that STEEM was never going to amount to its dream of becoming a decentralized social media platform. There wasn't enough marketing or pull from famous users. In order for a project to be successful you need those two things. Hopefully, one of the devs from Hive will read this and hear my plea. Please use funds from this project to onboard celebrities or have news agencies write pieces on this project. It's essential for the brand to grow. I'll be doing a review over the next week of the new platform and I'll post my results on my youtube channel.

I just want to give a huge shoutout to all the devs working hard on this platform to make a place for us to feel at home again.

Cheers,
Clayford08

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Welcome!

I agree, this should be much better. Decentralized community.

Welcome to Hive, following.

Hive is here for the ones who favor decentralization, you're in the right place.

STEEMIT became a centralized cesspool of whales upvoting other whales. I hope to see a change from that here on Hive.

Better content discovery is the most immediate solution to this. I know I was voting more or less the same people over and over on Steem for years mostly due to the feed being the only place I would look for new content daily. Without good ways to find new content from new users without spending a lot of time, it becomes natural to only curate those you already know. Then the same people end up on Trending -> becomes the only creators that new people see and thus follow -> reinforces the old voting pattern.

The best place for you to start here is certainly to pick a few communities that are curated well (perhaps OCD and crypt0) and then share your posts there

That's a very valid point. Hopefully, with the new platform we can design a new way for unknown bloggers to be seen.