I agree with your take. There are challenges for the consumer. Had this approach been happening years ago, the demand would have led to solutions already.
As for those "big name" examples you provided. This is typical since day one. Big audience on the outside. No audience here. At times their "content" was just links leading to content elsewhere, meaning we're paying them to drive the eyes of the consumer base elsewhere. That's the exact opposite of doing business.
Had they explained this to their audience, that audience would be here, in support, while earning. And anyone downvoting someone attracting a massive amount of attention and money, is a moron. They didn't attract money or attention, and still don't. That came before the downvotes. Yet, they're free to do that. I'm sure a decentralized revenue stream would come in handy. Could easily have it if they made the decision to do so.
Like I said. I'm not a fan of rigid guidelines. I'm more about people just taking action and doing things themselves, rather than following this ridiculous way of life that's been occurring here since day one.
This place will be spinning its tires doing this same approach that doesn't work for another eight years, while "the community" enforces it, then acting all confused, wondering why this entire thing can't get off the ground.
LOL buy now I'm just going off into rant land. I better cool it.
Yeah I hear you on that. Derrick Broze was a guy really pushing and advocating for solutions like Hive but he got similar treatment and said fuck it lol. He specifically called out Hive and it's decentralized nature in one of his big events which was really cool to hear.
I think that means we likely need to figure out a Trump style deal with some content creators - we pay them through the DHF and they bring in a bunch of users that will be buying a little bit of our assets to support their creator. I think it may work best to go the gaming route, and try to find a Korean gamer or something like that since the Koreans have a very strong taste and market for Hive compared to others.
That presents the problem though for many people - I can't read a fucking thing in Korean and their symbols just confuse me. Granted we have AI translation services which are a huge help, but we need other creators from the English variety..
I think one of the best things we've got going may be the use-case for HBD via Sucre in Venezuela and other countries like that. If we start to get businesses themselves to use the assets, and people need to get on here to buy or earn the assets they want to spend, that's a really awesome step in the right direction as well!
If you feel inclined, drop some rants in my rant community :D
You're going off into the land of expenses rather than making money. Paying for promises.
What I was talking about was pretty straightforward and the people interested already spend that money anyway, so this is a better deal to them. They just need to know about it.
And yeah Derrick is another one that doesn't bring attention or money to his own work here. These tools are sitting on the table to be used in this fashion for him as well and he doesn't need permission. All these content creators generating outside interest and attracting money the way I mentioned would be doing it for themselves and supporters, not "The Hive Community."
Every content creator has a door they could open. But instead it stays shut. And the focus is placed on attracting amateurs that need to be reminded plagiarism is bad. WTF?
I agree there are other avenues to explore and you mentioned that. All these options added on can only help.
As for posting rants. If I was to start doing the content creator thing again, which I doubt I will, but if I did, it would be based on my own brand, not Hive stuff. I don't need to get paid to complain.