Without a doubt, more than a few of us have suggested to our friends or colleagues or Family to join Hive and become part of the community.

I don't know about you, but the most common objection I get is that it's "too complicated."

But is it, really?

Aside from navigating the somewhat complex affair of crypto keys and what each one of our keys does, I don't think Hive is significantly more complex to get started on than any other social media. There's pretty much always going to be a learning curve between making that first tweet or that first post or that first short reel, and becoming somewhat proficient at the platform you're using.

Hive is a little different in the sense that the Twitter equivalent, and the YouTube equivalent, and the Instagram equivalent are all somewhat incorporated under the same greater umbrella.

From where I'm sitting, that's actually the step towards simplification, in the sense that it's our own version of "login with Google." Once you have navigated Keychain, it's pretty easy to move around the various "branches" of the ecosystem.

Plumbing the depths...

But as soon as you start scratching below the surface layers of Hive this ecosystem is incredibly complex, likely to the point where even if you applied yourself every day I doubt you could ever learn everything there is to know about Hive and it's many dApps. There are so many dApps, and programs, and initiatives, and systems and other stuff that keeping up with all of them is all but impossible.

In my very part time capacity I dabble a bit in various aspects of investing in tokens and initiatives and games and so forth, but I'm never going to be able to scratch more than the very surface. I mean, you can dedicate most of your time just to become an expert at one aspect on the workings of this platform!

Of course, I've never been that dedicated, so for the most part I'm going to stay in the shallows forever and never really understand the more intricate workings of our community. I've managed to glean a superficial understanding of some of the things that I have invested a few of my dollars in, but I simply don't have the time on hand to understand everything fully.

So what is the point of this post, really?

Sometimes I think we have a little bit of a cognitive disconnect when it comes to the big talking points of "What Hive Needs" as compared to the reality of what would be required of an individual in order to acquire the depth of understanding needed for meeting those talking points.

If you think about the mass market (majority) user of something like Instagram or Facebook, very few people get beyond the depth of sharing a few vacation pictures and occasionally posting a family update and maybe sharing a bit about their hobbies.

And that is to be expected...

Keeping that in mind, it is probably folly to expect people who join Hive to take any greater interest in the deeper Hive ecosystem than that. That's simply the nature of social media and busy lives... and Hive is not exempt, simply because we happen to be decentralized and on the blockchain.

Upon reflection, isn't that precisely what often gets in the way of greater success for many projects? We expect people to be far more interested in what we're doing than they really are and invariably end up disappointed. What we might consider the coolest thing since sliced bread likely means much more than "sure, it's OK" to the vast majority of the world.

I do believe this is a great community — and opportunity to be part of the emerging Web 3.0 frontier — but I also believe that its path to something we might call "long term success" is going to be a long slow meander rather than some rocket ship to the moon.

Often the reality of a thing is not nearly as exciting as the dream of that thing!

Well, I think I will leave my musings at that and get back to the business of this being the weekend!

Feel free to leave a comment — this IS "social" media, after all!

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