In this article, we will attempt to gather information about all active national communities within the Hive ecosystem and organize this information systematically. Additionally, we aim to identify successful development strategies. We hope this material will be beneficial to the community.
Communities play a vital role in the ecosystem, helping people adapt, especially those who do not speak English. When someone sees "their own," they automatically shift to the right mindset. It becomes easier for them to adapt to the ecosystem.
The search for communities begins with the interface at https://peakd.com/communities. By default, communities are sorted by descending rewards within the community, as this metric reflects activity levels, making it the most relevant list of leaders based on community engagement. We previously attempted to compile the list based on the number of users, but this resulted in a community with the largest user base ranking first, even though the last post there was published more than two years ago. In this article, communities will also be sorted by descending rewards to ensure relevance.
We did not include communities without an avatar, with fewer than 10 subscribers, or those that have been inactive for more than a year.
So, let's begin.
The reward data in the table is accurate as of December 4, 2024.
| Rank | Community Name | Subscribers | Pending Rewards* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HIVE CN 中文社区 | 4626 | 3240 |
| 2 | ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY | 3156 | 644 |
| 3 | Deutsch D-A-CH | 2021 | 537 |
| 4 | Team Ukraine | 1839 | 486 |
| 5 | Hive Naija | 1340 | 195 |
| 6 | Hive Argentina 🇦🇷 | 238 | 206 |
| 7 | Hive PH | 1977 | 137 |
| 8 | HiveGhana | 1316 | 151 |
| 9 | Hive Cuba | 1145 | 90 |
| 10 | HiveVenezuela | 3614 | 81 |
| 11 | Indiaunited | 800 | 78 |
| 12 | BDCommunity | 4301 | 66 |
| 13 | Korean Hive Village | 34 | 56 |
| 14 | Hive Austria Meetups | 103 | 41 |
| 15 | Wien | 26 | 40 |
| 16 | Hive Türkiye | 69 | 14 |
| 17 | Polish HIVE | 460 | 29 |
| 18 | HiveBR | 446 | 30 |
| 19 | Česky! | 161 | 28 |
| 20 | HIVE-MYANMAR | 156 | 9 |
| 21 | Korea • 한국 • KR • KO | 702 | 3 |
| 22 | Hive JA | 59 | 5 |
| 23 | Hive Mexico | 1460 | 3 |
| 24 | Venezuela | 594 | 2 |
| 25 | Team Malaysia | 219 | 0 |
| 26 | Ecency Bulgaria | 554 | 0 |
| 27 | TeamUK | 114 | 0 |
| 28 | Hive Australia | 87 | 0 |
| 29 | Ukraine | 41 | 0 |
| 30 | INDONESIAN HIVE | 464 | 0 |
| 31 | Hive TR | 313 | 0 |
| 32 | Hive USA | 39 | 0 |
| 33 | Svenska svärmen | 29 | 0 |
Pending Rewards* - this is a dynamic parameter, it changes all the time, the information is up to date at the time of writing.
Payment structure
The total pending payouts at the time amounted to $6,171. The leader of the list, HIVE CN 中文社区, accounted for 52.5%. The next three communities on the list—ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY, Deutsch D-A-CH, and Team Ukraine—together make up 27% of all rewards in this pool of communities. These four communities collectively account for 79.5% of the rewards.
Structure of communities by subscribers
The total number of subscribers across all national communities is 32,503. In first place is HIVE CN 中文社区 with a share of 14.2%, followed by BDCommunity in second place with 13.2%, and HiveVenezuela in third place with 11.1%. Together, the top 3 communities account for 38.5% of the total number of subscribers.
Why is there such a difference in payouts across different communities?
It is evident that much depends on the curators, but let’s analyze the top 4 communities (79.5% of the total rewards in the national niche) mentioned earlier. So, let's dive in.
In HIVE CN 中文社区, a rule is pinned on the main page: "5% required beneficiary to @hive-105017." Articles posted in the community without specifying the beneficiary (the community) do not receive attention from community curators. It is important to note that almost all articles are in Chinese, and you either comply with the community's beneficiary requirement or you won't receive payouts.
ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY operates similarly, with a rule pinned on the main page: "1% required beneficiary to @asean.hive." However, the publication language here is English. If there are articles where the community beneficiary is not specified, they still receive attention from curators. Nevertheless, most participants adhere to the community's rule.
Deutsch D-A-CH — we did not find any rules regarding beneficiaries, but the community is quite large and active, both in terms of content and curation.
Team Ukraine — there is no pinned rule about beneficiaries on the main page, but the community does have a pinned message: "To receive guaranteed daily support for posts, participants in the Ukrainian segment of Hive need to set the account @teamukraine as a 10% beneficiary of their post."
Additionally, the community runs a separate curation program for Ukrainian-language posts — @ua-promoter. Most posts in the community have two beneficiaries, each receiving 10%: @teamukraine and @ua-promoter.
After analyzing all other communities, we did not find explicit rules regarding beneficiaries or dedicated curation programs, except for the following:
- Indiaunited — A pinned message states, "2% required beneficiary to @indiaunited." However, this rule is rarely followed in the published articles.
- Hive Austria Meetups — A significant number of articles include @hive-199963 as a beneficiary, ranging from 25% to 75%.
- Ukraine — There are no explicit rules about beneficiaries, but many published articles include the Team Ukraine curator. This is part of the community’s curation program for Ukrainian-language posts.
From the analysis, the following conclusions can be drawn:
- For communities that publish in languages other than English, an internal curation program is essential; otherwise, posts will not receive attention from curators.
- Communities with beneficiary rules show development. Curation opportunities within the community grow, and authors remain active.
- Communities without beneficiary rules tend to be less productive, regardless of their subscriber count.
Naturally, the factors described above are not the sole reasons for community development. Personal social connections and dedicated curation programs play a significant role as well. However, we believe we have identified certain patterns that are also important.
We hope that our small study will be beneficial to the ecosystem and that communities may draw certain conclusions from it.
I would hope that these communities have value for the members beyond just getting votes. The should be organising meetups and sharing local news. I've done some analysis of the numbers of Hivers in different countries based on profile location, but I did not look at such communities.
Thanks for the attention to the post and for the feedback. I am sure that such communities are useful, they help new users to adapt, they expand the user base. I would be interested to read your research, can you give me a link?
I have done lists for various countries, but I concentrate on the UK as that's where I am. All linked from here.
Thank you, that's interesting information.
Thank you, great work 👍As someone who has managed local communities for a long time, I believe niche communities are more effective or beneficial. When we directed support to people who speak only one language or live in one country, they eventually became passive and lazy and stopped interacting enough with other communities. Or maybe this happened to us. I hope it is different in other cases. 😊
Thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated. As for passivity and laziness -- it characterises a particular person and depends on him, I think so. Some people need incentives to get started, then they drive themselves, others will not be helped by anything.
I think you're right. This issue is also connected to a person's character. I know someone who has been on Hive for six years and still only knows the word "thank you" in English. If she wanted, she could use translation tools to communicate with others. Many people do that. I also made a mistake. I got people used to things being easy. As you mentioned. Support should have been provided initially. But when that support became constant, some people didn’t want to step out of their comfort zones.
It was the year 2024, the era of the internet and AI🤣
You are absolutely right, there are people who shouldn't be helped... You help once, they say thank you, you help a second time, they don't say anything, you help a third time and they accuse you of not doing enough...
Perhaps it's important to understand who needs temporary support and who would be better off with a magical kick to the soft spot 😁
You understood so well what I meant. 🤗
Btw are you from Russia? I noticed the language while browsing your website. I also speak Russian. I was born in Russia. But I currently live in Turkey.
I am from Ukraine, but yes, Russian is my native language. It is surprising to many that half of Ukraine speaks Russian.
This is so nice. In the city where I live, there are many Ukrainians some of whom are former colleagues of mine. They are very sweet people. 🤗 Russian is widely spoken as you said. Even in Turkey all of my neighbors are people from the former Soviet countries Ukrainians, Gagauz, Tatars... and many others. Our common language is Russian.
There are such strange people. very tragicomic situation as you said.
I saw your community by the way. I think you've chosen a great field. It seems like there's not an active community in this area either. I wish you success on your Hive journey. I'm so so glad to have met you. I'll be following along 🌸
About a year ago, I tried to conduct something like an interview (in text format) about the Hive ecosystem with a few top witnesses. One of them set a requirement for me to prove that I wasn't connected to Russia. It's both sad and funny...
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Communites are from all over the world, I hope to see Estonian community pop up in the future aswell. But for now I don't know of a lot of Estonians on Hive, only a few.
I assume that administering and curating such communities is time-consuming. On the other hand, if people actively want to discuss something, have common interests and goals, it all looks easy at first glance. Thank you for your feedback and attention to the article.
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