I agree with you. We should at first find what Hive is really is, giving a clear definition.
In my opinion, is a decentralized blogging platform, and according to a common and contemporary definition a Decentralized blog2earn platform
More than one year ago I started publishing in Publish0x because I want to be honest, I was not fully persuaded by the Hive token and I preferred a blogging platform with no own token. But I kept watching Hive, and here I am, regularly posting since 3 months, trying to share useful and practical knowledge, having created my own niche community.
Next step will be Medium, and I will, with my team, create diversification of posting, sending people to Medium for some topics and to Hive with others, maybe more "controversial", to be helped by the blockchain.
But I am up to help and contribute actively to this kind of Hive development.
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Promoting your Hive posts with links to them on your Medium posts and posts on other platforms is a good idea. It makes sense to direct your readers to the platform that most supports your needs and in many ways that is probably Hive.