I do agree people need to find the niche areas that work for them. For some that is Twitter and if that is working for them they should keep it up. Long-term the highest earners on Hive will not be due to the reward pool but opportunities they have created for themselves.
There is and has always been issues without short-term financial incentives most are just unwilling to go out beyond our bubble in trying something different. Far too many see having to spend time on anything other than writing content as taking away from their earning potential in the short term. This is sadly a result of the 7-day cycle and people only earning from their content from those who have Hive staked to vote their open content.
With the recent massive censorship going on many are just reseeding back to Hive only services such as microblogging with a few other dozen people. They seem to just go out onto Twitter and elsewhere to spam the HiveFixesThis. For those not already on Hive, they are going to Parler where we don’t seem to have any ground on.
Long term I have always expected some of these web 2.0 sites that we can take traffic and users to become quite hostile towards us. So far we have been decently lucky with only a few major takedowns. When people realize they could get banned they start not wanting to put effort into things. I knew a few who no longer seem to put any energy into anything that could be seen by the outside world.
To date the most successful onboarding opportunities that I’ve been involved in have been:
I engaged with a Twitch streamer who was giving Hive a try with written content. He joined a discord I was running at a time and ended up asking if he could share our discord with his 100 live viewers. He didn’t want to run his discord and yet wanted a place for a few of his fans to engage with each other.
This created an environment for some to discover there is some amazing gaming content from places they have never heard about. Many themselves always wanted to give writing content a try but didn’t want to spend the time on making websites.
Another big one has been when I play online games that have alliances/guilds/whatever to join. People often talk about hobbies and other things outside of the game. People find it fascinating to hear about something new that they can give a try.
Finally, discussing in private chatrooms about blockchain games on Hive usually all without sharing a referral link. Over time I have realized it’s just not worth trying to push a referral link included with any kind of onboarding or invite link. When people feel like you are trying profit from them joining they become quite turned off. Not to mention many big spenders don’t want to feel like they are being tracked via an affiliate link.
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It's logical that for a decentralized environment there is no ONE way for anything. We DO have to be authentic, stop with the spamming and tell real life stories. Share the breadth of the content and play for the long game.
I have the referral link on the bottom of my posts and that's it. No one wants to be "sold" to. In fact, it creates a resistance. The community thing needs to be authentic - we all resist others using us for their profit.
I think you've really touched on an important thing here that people can create their own presence on Hive without needing to build a website. They can create a community, and identity and a following, and share that content to web2 whilst preserving and protecting that content onchain. THAT is a very sexy story if you're a homeschooler, an anti-vaxxer or an alternative lifestyle person not buying mainstream government controlled narrative about anything. It's also great for things like gambling (as we see with slot games and poker) and fringe content like erotica.
Pondering this some more.... thanks for the tokens. 😊
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