I certainly understand the creative drain, and the apprehension around the future of Hive. For me though, Hive is still nothing but positives. Of course, the biggest problem for a creative is that this is not where the people are! So time spent here is time potentially not spent on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. However, I was never very active on any of those! Only Hive has stuck with me. The ownership aspect really does strike a chord, so it's not an either/or prospect for me. If I wasn't on Hive, I probably wouldn't be active on any social media.
Absolutely I think the main use case right now is simply sharing the journey of creating, through blogging in various forms. Along the way you'll hopefully accrue a bit of funds for the project and a few dedicated fans as well. I've backed about a half dozen crowdfunding campaigns on mainstream platforms (KickStarter, Indiegogo) based off of interacting with the folks on Hive, and when I hopefully go to launch my own project, I do believe "Hiveans" will be a tentpole of my support, and that I'll be able to sell some Hive tokens to assist my funding.
I'm always torn myself on just how much material and product to release online. @jasonbrubaker has a really interesting business model that he does well at. All his comics are available freely online, yet he's still managed to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for printed editions that folks want on their bookshelves. He wrote a book, Unnatural Talent: Creating, Printing and Selling Your Comic in the Digital Age which I really enjoyed... and yes, he dabbled in Steem back in the day! Once I get things up and running more, I'll certainly be reaching out to him to see if he wants to give Hive another look! I sure hope he does. But I digress, the point is he just gets the work out there.
I believe we will see advances in sharing work via Hive too. It's really the simplest thing so far, but I'm excited about @jrej developing Inkito. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out! I've been slowly going through and adding my old stuff to help populate the site as he tests it, simply by re-tagging posts that I put on Steem years ago.
It really is an exciting time. Sorry for the whirlwind mini-rant... most of these being topics I want to cover in upcoming full posts!
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Thanks for mentioning me in there. I truly see a lot of potential for comics and story telling in general in here. People are chasing attention on social media, never getting a dime, Hive changes that.
About @jasonbrubaker, I will definitely come back to him about Hive once it has grown a little more. I followed him since he made podcasts on MakingComics.com. His business model seem to work quite well for him, I've been posting my comics online for free since then but I am not as talented as he is. He's been using a combination of Patreon and youtube lately which is pretty frequent nowadays.
Anyway, I'm excited about your comic creating community. I'm sure we can find ways to collaborate going forward. I'll happily post the next page of my comic around here! ;-)