Twitter is a perfect place to lose friends, alienate people and generally dig yourself into a hole. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and on reflection, it would appear that the very first post I made, yes it was me folks, came across as an attack on @thepixiepost which it wasn't. I hold my hand up, it could have been constructed better however with character limitations words are at a premium on Twitter et al and I'm not keen on using Hive as a Quasi Mastodon/Twitter messaging service.
I have no time for Memes or lazy people who are not willing to put the time in to create something worth [reading] looking at. Now if a Meme was part of a larger post and designed to break up a creation that could be tagged "TLDR" then I don't mind that so much but what I really despise, as said on Twitter last night, is some video or gif of a hippopotamus farting that gains masses of votes because idiots (Yep I'm not mincing my words again) vote for it. Steem, towards the end, was just riddled with endless streams of videos that took no time or skill to produce and posted in most cases with little or no text to accompany them.
Part of the reason my posts are few and far between is that I will only post something I feel is worthwhile. I do not search high and low for something to post about something I see a lot of people doing. Some posts are almost like people are going through the alphabet: "A is for apple..... Today I bought an apple from the market, it was a lovely red apple and the man that sold it to me......" LOL
Never be a sheep, don't bleat with the rest of the crowd because you're worried about being cast out: Question everything. #hugs
Did the people who posted them make the videos? If they made them, as a video creator, I can tell you now, it did take time, skill and effort to produce it. IF they just shared other people's videos, it still took time, skill and effort but not their time, skill and effort so they shouldn't be profiting from it.
I'll admit that I do not watch so many videos, but there are plenty of people who prefer to vlog rather than write and there is an audience for that content, especially on mobile devices where reading is not so easy. Maybe peakd needs to show the word count on the feed so you know if there is something to read.
Some will be turned off by a wordy post and I may not read long ones unless it's something I'm really into.
I do not think Hive can afford to reject any type of content given that we only have a few thousand users. Making it easy to find what you want is a technical issue.
You mentioned that people are creating content on other platforms to profit on Hive, but 3speak is a Hive project and most of us will make nothing on Youtube, so why not share here where we can earn?
These discussions are worth having, but it will be small minority who participate. Others will just keep pumping out posts of cat memes or whatever in hope of making something. It's up to the community to decide if they have value.
So where do I find the farting hippo video?
LOL
There is one flaw in the "People prefer to watch videos argument. For a lot of us, we are at work which means we can't be caught watching films.
I take on board the fact that @3speak is an app and not a service, I hold my hand up, I got that wrong. Not sure if that warrants an apology and if it does to whom? #shrug
It can be a mistake to think you are a typical user, if there is such a thing. Should you be on social media at work? Auto-play videos may catch you out. There is a generation growing up who rarely use a PC. They are on their phones all day using Tiktok and Instagram (which I'm not on). Why shouldn't Hive have a slice of that market? We bloggers can still do our thing for those who enjoy it. We need to nudge the dapps to be usable by all types of user.
One of the perks of Management is you can do 'things' that minions are not allowed to. :-)
I've worked in some places where social media got blocked on the company networks, but people will still have their phones.
I had a customer once ask me how he could disable mobiles when they entered the workplace. And I do mean disable. I pointed out to him that:
A. That might be illegal
B. What happens if a relative is taken ill and the only contact the family knows is the mobile number?
In some areas at places I've worked you have to put your phone in a locker. Most workplaces are pretty relaxed, but some employers won't want people using phones when they should be working. We managed without them in the past. If you can't use it then your contacts should know that.
You're not old enough to see the farting Hippo by the way.
Ah, dad!
I really need to be more awake to respond.
Please give me a few? Okay, maybe more than a few, more hours to wake up. :D
I think what a person posts should have meaning to the person that made it. Period.
There are also contests that help people earn Hive tokens. Most of those contests have themes to them so unfortunately, those posts will look a lot alike until you read them and see past the title.
I have a post I need to write today or tomorrow for a person's, whom I admire, contest. I will do the contest because I respect the person running it. He wants to give back to the community and I find that commendable.
I happen to agree with you here. Yet, I believe in freedom of speech and also think some people love that kind of content. I don't 'get' it but who am I to judge what someone finds entertaining? As long as it doesn't hurt others
I just do not vote or try not to click on those kinds of posts.
I will agree 100% that there are problems, as I stated in my post, on finding the kind of content on Hive that I want to read. Following people really doesn't work anymore since communities happened. What was to help people find content, in my opinion, made it harder to find content.
Last, Thank You for taking the time to read the post and the great discussion you had with @steevc in the comments. I think it is an important issue to be discussed. It is why I wrote the post.
Have a wonderful rest of your day!!