I do not want to buy Hive Power. At least not for the purpose of buying the attention of others. If people do not care about my posts, when my Hive Power is low, then they would not care about them with higher amounts either. Only about my upvote.
I do not want to buy Hive Power. At least not for the purpose of buying the attention of others. If people do not care about my posts, when my Hive Power is low, then they would not care about them with higher amounts either. Only about my upvote.
Welcome to the cult of Hive Power.
This "cult" and the lack of real interest in the contents is the reason I have not posted for a little bit more than one month in the recent past. Originally I planned a much higher break (at least three months) from posting on the Hive blockchain.
Yup, that is a bit of an issue…
A bit is very much an understatement in this case.
I think it is a bit inherent to social media. Or even human behavior at the base of it. People will always go for the best return on investment. Their time being the investment, and the return, your vote value, your content, the amount of others you can influence via your followers, or the position you have in the tribe.
I can describe this in three words. Disgusting, greed, selfishness.
Most people on this platform is so focused on the monetary aspect that literally this is how they ruin this platform.
There are very little (or no) real followers (people, who really, actually, genuinely care about the content) on this platform.
99% of the Hive blockchain users care only about their own gain.
There are other, properly working social networks, where I (and many other people) happily post, because people there actually care about the content (for example Facebook groups).
There are definitely many of those, no doubt. There are also those that are in it for the game, for the social aspect and the content. And there’s also a group inbetween, that are in it for the social aspect, and the gains, and to share those gains. I count myself in that group. I want to gain HP, because I know that the mor zo have, the more I can share with many others. And while this may just be some happy Pennie’s for me, the upvotes I can give, can really make a difference for some people (and this is not a guess, this is what I’ve heard from some of those people).
In every system where there is something to gain, there will be bad people abusing that system for their own betterment.
I pity them, because they poor souls and poor lives!
True. Sometimes a v4v is a good thing though
Only the real interest in the content is good. Which is nowadays very rare on the Hive blockchain. But natural on any other properly working social network.
It's true, the proper interest is not very big here, but in my experience it's not very much other places either.
The only real interest is from people who know you in person. At least for me 😆
Many people actually care in the proper Facebook groups. They ask how I am, how the things are going, if I have help. They ask me to post more often. Many of them write useful/helpful tips and suggestions. Some of them even write private messages. Most of them are strangers for me (I have not met them in real life so far).
Ah, yes. Had forgotten about the groups. I personally don't use them very much.
I honestly think if the right communities existed then those same people would be on Hive too. Perhaps through the Ecency app. Makes it pretty easy to navigate if they are subscribed to the right community.
Maybe that's a way we could go to bring more quality to Hive