Rewards without a shadow of doubt, to be honest.
I can get engagement on countless other platforms. In fact, more and higher quality engagement than on Hive. But there is no comparison when it comes to monetization on Hive. Steem is is the closest thing offering anywhere near the same level of rewards.
On YouTube, it takes 4000 hours of your videos viewed and 1000 subscribers to be considered for monetization and it can be cut off at any minute by a tweak in an algorithm or any unpredictable change in how the platform operates. That's completely laughable. And I'm not the stuff YouTube stars are made of and by YT stars I mean those content creators who are so valuable that YT will roll out a red carpet for them. I have nothing to give of such high value as to be able to monetize any of my creative efforts on YouTube.
If Quora paid anything for answers or engagement, I might be able to earn something. Since I quit using Quora a couple of months ago, I've been getting messages from one community manager asking me to create Finnish language groups on my areas of interest. The messages were clearly not mass posts because she mentioned some of mine. Thanks, but no thanks. My time here buys me lottery tickets that have a pretty good possibility of being winners thanks to HIVE being a quasi-derivative of Bitcoin, which in turns seems to be sucking value from the broken financial system like a (so far) small black hole orbiting a dying giant star. I'm done being a volunteer worker for centralised corporate Web 2.0 applications.
I have to admit that engagement available on Quora is superior to what is available here. But that's a temporary problem caused by the small user base on Hive. Other than crypto (and photography) there are a lot of topics I can't find anyone to talk to about here.
I wonder when this will change, when there will be a suitable amount here that compensates for changing over. I am guessing we need about 20 million more real accounts before it starts having its own gravity and growing just through being popular enough. I am very surprised there aren't more here now.
I think there are people who are willing to talk about a lot, but they get disillusioned posting about it and not getting engagement - even though many don't actually engage with others, as there isn't a lot of chance for gain in that. I am hoping with a few more people and some decent communities, this might change.
That figure sounds credible.
So am I. Can an early adopter mentality really be this rare?
Communities are crucial. But until the user base grows significantly, I will have to treat Hive as a place to talk mainly about Hive and the wider cryptosphere. It's very different on the giant platforms. If you go to the right Facebook groups or Quora spaces, you'll have people jumping from left, right and center willing to talk about whatever you want to talk about at that time. But I'm more than willing to look past that on Hive. Now we have to get this thing to grow.
I believe content discovery mechanisms on Hive is the culprit for now. It takes far too long to find something interesting on a specific topic. And even then sorting by trending and reward value is not the most efficient way of sorting relevance :)
Exactly. This is why I have proposed a tax on curation rewards based on concentrating votes on too narrow a group of authors.
https://peakd.com/hive-136578/@markkujantunen/taxing-too-frequent-votes-on-the-same-authors