"...because it would kill people trying to build their bags here."
The kind of people who would usually be "building their bags" from free giveaway tokens are not the kind of people who actually fill bags. They're dumpers. They are not much use when we're talking about a serious lack of investment and staking.
And if they're the kind of people who are simply using the social interfaces to fill bags, then they can just as easily or more easily do that in communities on layer two that have their own tokens. And if they truly want HIVE bags, then they can use those layer two tokens to purchase them and HIVE can still be acquired with no out-of-pocket cost to them.
Well I do agree some people of them only cash out. But I can only see issues with this models with RCs but that might be fixed by the RC pools in the future. As most new accounts will definitely have HP issues.
Either way I think most of the existing tribes wouldn't do so well with the new structure. Most of them have been relatively stagnant in my opinion and I don't know how many of the new users would be able to understand before giving up. Right now I see HIVE having a problem getting more people and also retaining these new users. I also know that there are plenty of communities with no 2nd layer token and it would also require them to figure out how to construct their tokens. So either way I can't clearly see how you can include the communities when some don't even have tokens.
In fact, it would also require the tribes to probably power down to keep a base value for the tokens. I just see way too many issues and maybe its just because its different from what I have gotten use to here.
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It's a free market. They need to do or die. If their community isn't worth being in and can't grow, then the market is speaking and telling them that it's not good enough.
Any interface like Peakd or Ecency can use the same rewards distribution protocols as we have right now on Hive. All they would need to do is create their own token(s) for it. I honestly don't know why they haven't done this yet. It would likely be more profitable for them to do that and reserve a portion for their team than to continue seeking pay from the DHF. And then they would have more freedom to do their own advertising and marketing with their tokens and to use them for promotion of content, as other interfaces have done or already do.