I've heard someone else complain that Hive gets less interaction than other platforms, despite the rewards. We have far fewer users than reddit/FB/Twtr, so you will not find many people interested in a given topic. The simple fact is that we need far more users to get that interaction.
The platform broke through in Spring 2017. DV's killed it, because that threatened to distribute stake and end the plutocracy that has governed the platform since a couple dozen users mined the majority of stake in 2016. There have been minor changes over time in that oligarchy, but the plutocracy continues to maintain the majority of stake by funding HW to continue to flag users off the platform to this day.
DV's concentrate stake and perpetuate the plutocratic control of Hive. Now the millions of accounts claimed and accumulated by the substantially staked are being automated with AI. These flaws are features for the plutocracy, but they prevent Hive from rising to dominate the social media industry that has overtaken all other industries to become the largest sector of the global financial market because at the same time Hive has earned the lowest user retention of all social media platforms.
DV's have driven 99.99% of new users away, and this is because that taxation is theft. That is why Hive has lower user retention than egregiously censored Web2 platforms. The crushed hopes of Hive users are worse than the absence of hope of users of Web2 platforms. AI doesn't have hopes and doesn't care. AI socks will turn Hive into a parody of social media, bots talking to bots, and the owners of those accounts will eventually sell and float off into the sunset with @ned - after they finish mining the DHF for that ~$20M with Valueplan fraud and kickbacks.
I'm not sure that DVs are used as much as you suggest. Most people won't get them and there's no big incentive for big accounts to drive people away as that devalues the platform. A few people do get slammed, but that is usually down to bad behaviour (with exceptions). It can also be just people falling out.
I do think that DVs should not be used on new accounts unless they are obviously scamming. People need to understand what is acceptable and a comment on that may be enough.
I expect a lot of people give up when they don't make much immediately and something else gets their attention. They will go where their friends are.
Hive is imperfect, but still better than a lot of other platforms.
Most people on the platform already did, and we're what's left.
"...there's no big incentive for big accounts to drive people away as that devalues the platform."
Cash is king. You're talking about potential value the platform could have if distribution wasn't flagged away. By maintaining the majority of stake and controlling the witnesses the plutocrats control actual governance now, and reap the value of that now. Prudential interest requires maintaining control instead of chasing spooks.
"...just people falling out."
Falling off of Hive. >1m users were here and now there's ~3k of us. That's a lot of falling out. If you ask people that used to use Hive why they don't anymore, they'll tell you they were flagged off the platform. HW did that.
"Hive is imperfect, but still better than a lot of other platforms."
The vast majority of social media users disagree with you - or they would if you were posting on a platform they used. Flags are why you're not.
Edit: BTW I donate 25% of my author rewards to accounts and comments - and I tip authors not on that list that are flagged on their every post and comment. Over time the list of authors I donate to and tip changes, because that population is always dropping off and being added to.
I suggest doing that for a couple years, so you can see what censorship looks like on Hive. You seem not to know much about it.
Simple - Quality users which find wider picture in Hive. For some stupid reason we all here for 8+ years, and honestly it wouldn't be worth to lose this kind of people over 10k bots
There is this initiative to share links on reddit to attract more people to hive where I take part.
https://peakd.com/hive-197333/@x-rain/hiveposh-contest-15
If you look at these stats there is a great difference between Hive/snaps and reddit.
https://peakd.com/hive-197333/@blkchn/re-blkchn-sr9jrw
On reddit users respond, discuss. Here on Hive is very low interaction.
Users are busy writing posting, hoping to get rewards.
On comments you do not get many rewards, so they concentrate on postings.
Thats my humble opinion.
I've heard someone else complain that Hive gets less interaction than other platforms, despite the rewards. We have far fewer users than reddit/FB/Twtr, so you will not find many people interested in a given topic. The simple fact is that we need far more users to get that interaction.
yes, it's the question of the critical mass.
If you reach it, you get more attraction, if not then there is a problem.
Can't get users due to lack of interaction.
Can't get interaction due to lack of users.
Can't win :)
Need pioneers to break the cycle.
The platform broke through in Spring 2017. DV's killed it, because that threatened to distribute stake and end the plutocracy that has governed the platform since a couple dozen users mined the majority of stake in 2016. There have been minor changes over time in that oligarchy, but the plutocracy continues to maintain the majority of stake by funding HW to continue to flag users off the platform to this day.
DV's concentrate stake and perpetuate the plutocratic control of Hive. Now the millions of accounts claimed and accumulated by the substantially staked are being automated with AI. These flaws are features for the plutocracy, but they prevent Hive from rising to dominate the social media industry that has overtaken all other industries to become the largest sector of the global financial market because at the same time Hive has earned the lowest user retention of all social media platforms.
DV's have driven 99.99% of new users away, and this is because that taxation is theft. That is why Hive has lower user retention than egregiously censored Web2 platforms. The crushed hopes of Hive users are worse than the absence of hope of users of Web2 platforms. AI doesn't have hopes and doesn't care. AI socks will turn Hive into a parody of social media, bots talking to bots, and the owners of those accounts will eventually sell and float off into the sunset with @ned - after they finish mining the DHF for that ~$20M with Valueplan fraud and kickbacks.
All this can be resolved with code at anytime.
I'm not sure that DVs are used as much as you suggest. Most people won't get them and there's no big incentive for big accounts to drive people away as that devalues the platform. A few people do get slammed, but that is usually down to bad behaviour (with exceptions). It can also be just people falling out.
I do think that DVs should not be used on new accounts unless they are obviously scamming. People need to understand what is acceptable and a comment on that may be enough.
I expect a lot of people give up when they don't make much immediately and something else gets their attention. They will go where their friends are.
Hive is imperfect, but still better than a lot of other platforms.
Most people on the platform already did, and we're what's left.
Cash is king. You're talking about potential value the platform could have if distribution wasn't flagged away. By maintaining the majority of stake and controlling the witnesses the plutocrats control actual governance now, and reap the value of that now. Prudential interest requires maintaining control instead of chasing spooks.
Falling off of Hive. >1m users were here and now there's ~3k of us. That's a lot of falling out. If you ask people that used to use Hive why they don't anymore, they'll tell you they were flagged off the platform. HW did that.
The vast majority of social media users disagree with you - or they would if you were posting on a platform they used. Flags are why you're not.
Edit: BTW I donate 25% of my author rewards to accounts and comments - and I tip authors not on that list that are flagged on their every post and comment. Over time the list of authors I donate to and tip changes, because that population is always dropping off and being added to.
I suggest doing that for a couple years, so you can see what censorship looks like on Hive. You seem not to know much about it.
Simple - Quality users which find wider picture in Hive. For some stupid reason we all here for 8+ years, and honestly it wouldn't be worth to lose this kind of people over 10k bots