This article got me thinking about Leo Finance vs. PeakD. I really don't know much about how all these different front-ends interact with the hive blockchain, but I've always defaulted to using PeakD for my Hive content/comments because of its tie into Splinterlands. I'm not sure if you just grew comfortable posting on Leo vs. PeakD when you got started, or if Leo really has better controls for posting long-form content.
What I do know though, is that Leo is definitely grabbing my attention with its Threads platform to clone X (twitter). I have been trying to post more short-form "tweet" content on the Threads platform, but interaction is still few and far between. I also get a lot more comments on my material without an upvote on Threads, which doesn't happen nearly as often when I comment on long-form content like this (that I interact with via PeakD). Either way, I'm engaged and I'm in it for the long haul.
Like you, I see the value in a decentralized social platform that is basically run by the users. I'm not much of a programmer, but I'm eager to continue to expand my knowledge of the Hive Blockchain so I can further take advantage of the myriad opportunities here:
I'm slacking on starting my actifit account.
I need to get back to 3x per day threads on Leo.
I REALLY need to get back to 3x per week articles on PeakD/Hive.
All realistic goals, so if not now, when?!
I mostly used Peakd, but I also use Leo, and hive.blog also. It just depends on what I am doing or how I feel at the time :)
Threads is good and I think I should use it more than I do. I get "trapped" in Hive comments though. Threads is more geared to the Leo community than the entire chain though.
These are definitely realistic goals and I reckon you might have some decent Leo content if you put your mind to it :)
Thanks for the kind words of support. At least I can see the earnings coming in when I work on Hive. I can't say the same thing about the long-form content I put into my EDM media company, but I guess the payoff is all the Guest List and Festival Bands I've been able to take advantage of to bring my dance music coverage to the masses.
Getting people to actually read and interact with the EDM content is another beast entirely since most of the kids these days just want to see videos in TikTok / IG content instead. I never thought it would be such a challenge to get people to read 5 paragraphs at a time, but here we are!