Had this conversation with someone today.
I think of Hive as incentive to get out and take pictures. It gives me an end reason to be taking the pictures. People have been brainwashed into thinking all pictures belong on Facebook and Instagram to show your friends, and to be rewarded for your content? Outrageous.
The truth is I would be taking these pictures anyway. But if I can earn from them why wouldn't I post them here?
That is a great way to think. And you and I are in a different position. And the problem is not the people that don't see the benefits of posting here even if it is just for a "small extra" reward in the end of the month. What I am referring about are people that are big and part of the community for a long time, coming for people that are trying to get this rewards as part of their income because creating content online and photography is their job!
That's a bit like going to a supermarket and belittling the cashier for scanning your shopping just because they're getting paid and not doing it for the fun of it. 😂