Hey there, I'm really interested in the project!
I think it's a great idea and you give me a new way of thinking about onboarding fans into Hive, because I've never thought about the return that they could have by supporting me here.
Patreon CEO made a Ted talk on the "death of the follower". Check it out on YouTube. Maybe Hive is not suitable to replace the Patreon subscription model yet, but what Hive offers - just like Patreon does - is getting rid of the algorithm that buries our content in the feed and prevents our fans to see our content.
Hive advantage is earning for fans by supporting the artist with votes. The hard part is convincing fans to get on Hive and learn how to use it. And don't forget the big resistance about crypto...
Unfortunately I don't have fans yet that support me on Patreon, nor someone who followed me from web2, so I don't have a feedback to bring some suggestions to the project. But I'll be glad to help in any way, if this will help me to be more effective on onboarding people 😁✌🏻
Great feedback. Yes - we've listened to that same Ted Talk. It was interesting indeed. Our Manager has given talks as well at different industry festivals about "Followers are not Fans" - so it's something we are invested in. I think we have found an extremely interesting model that if we organize it effectively, it could be a gateway into a future use of the Hive Blockchain for the community.
It could be interesting to create a frontend specifically for artists and for their fans. This way we could better emulate the Patreon model and give people a hub to see only artists content, not mixed up with everything else on Hive.
A platform with subscriptions and links to NFT showroom to sell music without leaving the blockchain and so on.
But I'm not a programmer and don't know someone that could do this in their free time 😅
now we are getting somewhere! We would need to have like a whitelist of accounts that would be allowed to unlock certain posts on the platform. There are also the communities that could somehow have a Subscription based access tier