One of the first things I do in the morning and also before I go to bed is check my hive/leofinance feed for new posts and for new replies to my posts that may need immediate assistance.
What about you?
I had never wondered why. Why do I come and post on hive every single day? Why do I use this medium so much and so often?
I was asked this question during my interview for a research and at that moment I thought .. "I bet many people ask on the internet" Why should I use any of these so-called decentralized social media?
In this post, I will share my point of view about why I post here. The reasons why I choose to visit this platform and spend as much time as I do.
I would like to read your opinion below, do you agree? Would you like to add something?
I will post the questions in an interview-like way, and they will be at the end of this post in case you would like to post about it to a different post.
Let's start with ..
How many hours a day do you spend on hive?
If you add up the different times of day that I enter, using a variety of different front - ends such as hive.blog, peakd.com, leofinance.io, ecency app etc - I would say that at least 2 hours a day I am active here. I need to say that due to my job, I spend a number of hours every day on my laptop too.
Do you often visit other decentralized social media?
Yes, but not so often and not always on a daily basis.
Why do you use hive on a daily basis?
.1. H-o-m-e
Hive feels like my internet home. I can find out any topic I wish to read about, I can search out in different communities or with different tags, ro check out what my friends wrote about. I learn both the crypto news, and also the news about hive platform and every update there is to know.
News, Entertainment, Fun
.2. Curate
Curation means upvoting the post that a user likes.
Whenever I read an interesting post, I upvote(like) it. This way both the author of the post, the other people who upvoted (liked it), and me, are earning cryptocurrency tokens.
More info about how curation works here
.3. Interact with the community
I always check for comments on my posts and also comment to other users' posts when I have something meaningful to ask or share.
.4. A post a day ...
I try to always post one post every day. The subjects are not the same every day. Sometimes I post about something brand new that I have found out and wanted to share, sometimes I post tutorials about apps that I use or reviews and sometimes I participate in challenges or post travel / photo posts. I try not to leave any day without posting an (always unique and original) post on the hive blockchain.
If you wish to check out some statistics about your number of posts etc, check out the special website: https://hivebuzz.me
.5. Wallet checking
Hive is so much more than a social media. It is a blogging / crypto news / photography / gaming / bank platform -- you can do here pretty much anything you can think of!
I often visit my wallet to see if I have to claim rewards, if I need to put HBD to the savings (earning 20% APR) or anything else that may be new to try it out!
Two of the things I will check out soon are checking cubdefi after some time & delegating some hive to OCD check out why by @acidyo
(NFA - DYOR as always!)
.6. Safe
I was asked .. why do you use hive over other social media?
My answer .. I feel that my content & funds are safe here.
.7. Learning
If you know me for sometime, then you know my opinion about learning. I strongly believe that we need to obtain knowledge, especially when it comes to such new technology and to such groundbreaking changes that are shaking the world's financial systems.
I have started (and continue to this day) to use decentralized social media and to attend a variety of courses, seminars that have to do with digital currencies.
The best way to learn is always 'hands on training', but always, always with safety in mind!
Bonus
I love doing giveaways, and it is so easy to do it via hive/leofinance :) I just choose the how and since all users have integrated wallets with their account, it is so easy to send them the tokens after they win! No fees, No extra trust needed! In just a few secs!
There are many more reasons, but let's keep it short for now!
It is your turn to either write a post about it and tag me (use also the tag #whyhive) or to write below what I may have left out :)
Thank you for your always valuable input!
If you know nothing about hive - please ask me or check out any of these links!
https://hive.io
https://hive.io/eco
https://leopedia.io
https://leofinance.io
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