Hive being a web3 platform is one of the biggest challenges newbies have for them to easily adapt to it. A lot of us came from web2 platforms where all we had to do was sign in using google or iCloud. There was little or nothing to be thorough about but that is different with hive. Here on hive, users are highly advised to pay attention to details, ask questions and most importantly, show up as much as possible engaging through comments and creating their own original contents. Which is not like their post on web2 that they can just screenshot from a random post.
Hive is strange to a lot of new users because it has so many frontends to it. Yes, it’s all one hive but different ways to communicate with it, why? This is a question most of my newbies have asked especially back then when I was having problems creating an account and I had to use different frontends. They find hive to be a complex platform and they just prefer to remain in web2 where it doesn’t seem like they have to be a professional in anything.
Another challenge I face while onboarding a new user is my choice of words. As much as this may not be a good reason to some, it is to me because over the years, most of the people that come to me and are showing some interest to be a part of hive is because they saw how well I’m doing for myself. I try to make them not see the possibilities of not earning on hive because it doesn’t sometimes and that’s a challenge to some of them. If I’m not going to earn anything why then should I spend my time here?
Right now, I feel hive has a lot of problems as regards reward distribution and that’s a problem to both onboarders as onboardees. So for my recommendation, if it would be possible to, I’d say users should be rewarded based on their quality, engagement and sustainability. While this is already done, a lot of newbies that create good contents are still yet to be supported and I understand to an extent that this has a lot to do with connections. If you don’t have people who hold a lot of hive power as friends, your onboardee’s contents are likely not to get supported no matter the effort they put in.
My suggestion on how to make it better is that, those who use AI or plagiarize shouldn’t be supported for a certain duration until they mend their ways and even without doing so much, a lot of them would adjust and do the right thing even without saying so much. And also, support those who bring quality to hive too so everyone would aspire to make great contents. I have seen some really funny post get a lot of traction than others that they put in so much effort and I find that really sad. I feel it is things like that that makes people just come to hive to keep taking and not even consider giving.
So, joining hive is way easier for a new user if they join in through some users than others and that’s a challenge for me. For now, I’m just trying to at least grow myself more before telling others about hive so I can be able to support those of them that truly put in the effort to grow until they can be seen. I know how much the rewards I get here motivate me to do better and I believe a lot of new users especially now will only want to give more when they are certain that their efforts won’t be in vain. A lot of people around me are lacking and if they want to join a web3 platform as hive, the reward will be a great motivation for them so when I know they won’t get it, I just don’t bother trying to bring them here.
I can’t force people to support posts they don’t like, I can only speak for myself. My goal is, as long as a newbies post is quality and original, they deserve support but there are so many factors that determine the support as I have mentioned above and some that I don’t even know of yet. Creating an account for me is not a problem at all. I can create as many accounts as I want for newbies but getting them to stay is where the problem is.
Thank you for reading through. ❤️