When I decided to start moving my content to decentralized social media I was debating between Steemit and Hive. At that point I didn't have much understanding of either and I admittedly still have a surficial understanding of Hive. Somewhere, I read an article about the hostile takeover of Steem, and decided I didn't want to trust a system that could be hijacked by just a few users and opted for Hive.
In retrospect it was a great decision made on immitted data. There seems to be a tremendous amount of energy associated with Hive - just today @leofinance made the move to InLeo.io .
Temporarily some of us will need to use legacy social media platforms and encourage users to come over to Hive. That takes a little hand holding but using social media here becomes seamless rather quickly.
I find this story particularly interesting because people like me are so far removed from it.
It's hard to imagine being a new user and having to choose between the two with so little information.
I am a relative latecomer to crypto - I came in at the height of DeFi and was huge on Avalanche at the time. I still have a soft spot for the team behind Trader Joe. The aesthetics of it blew me away the first time I saw it.
Somewhere about 2 and years back I read something about Splinterlands and made an account to try it out. I played a day or two and then got busy with other things, and I effectively didn't come back to HIVE till about 2 weeks ago.
I remember the notification about HIVE Keys, and wondered at the time why it needed 4 different keys. I looked briefly at PEAKD and Leo Finance at the time, but for whatever reason it just didn't click for me.
It's coalescing more and more for me though, I still have some technical gaps but I feel more comfortable articulating why people would want to use it and how to get started with it.