Ads for sure. I am with u for any new income generation for authors. But I love paying authors after 7 days period too. If an author makes 1$ in ads in a month from all his blogs then atleast give that authors something. I slowed down blogging for some reasons. I will put 10x more efforts in my blogs if I get even 1 cent by a single blog based on traffic i generate. If u check prompts then to some degree I agree it's a faucet site for poor nations.
Do u know how much traffic controversial topics makes? I bet u know. But on hive it earns mostly 0 cause 1 person disagrees.
Decentralized ads. Content discovery algorithms way beyond payout windows. Authors getting some part of rewards if not all.
I commented this here but I was reading all comments for half hour atleast. U got alot of watch time if it's a thing for blogs. Some whales might not agree with ads as it's annoying for them. Why not pay authors for ads off for them on monthly bases they subscribed too? Also, adblockers are getting smarter.
I also read about ocd data tracking and all it is beneficial above by antisocialist. I read all sorts of things on hive but I am a living proof why I don't blog. Some of your concerns r real but layer 2 is not solution in my opinion. I see it in different ways. Sorry for typing too long xD
Yeah, lol. Controversy attracts attention. Whenever I've written those types of posts they ended up being the biggest posts on Hive for days or weeks.
I still get Peakd views on my Mario Nawfal post for some reason that was written 6 months ago.
They dont get more votes though. That is almost never the case. Its something about not wanting to be associated with something controversial as it implies agreement. So attention isnt actually what is valued the most.