Still Cross Posting?
Part of me wants to get to rep 70 on Steem, seeing as I am at 69.95 and that's just haunting me so the race is on to get there before powerdown completes. However, I'm also interested in seeing where the interaction and activity is because I want to share my music with as many folks as possible and there's no point in continually posting to a ghost town!
Proof of Interaction (PoINT?) ☝️
Since the Hive Hard Fork happened on 20th March 2020, I've been getting data to compare the two sites and get a better idea where to focus efforts. With sharing music on Web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube etc. you can already see I'm being spread pretty thin... and that's without factoring in studio time!
Hive vs Steem
Anyway... let's have a look at Hive vs Steem as that's probably what we're most interested in here. When I posted a table on 17th April, the post payouts were pretty similar between Hive and Steem but only 2 comments on Steem (one of them was my own!) compared to 71 on Hive. Snapshot from today is thus:
The post payouts have literally doubled which is really humbling (thanks everyone who's supported me here) and just look at the number of comments...165 Comments On Hive vs 16 On Steem!
That's over 10x more comments for this little guy - which is pretty staggering! Thanks to you legends for engaging with the music posts, I'm really grateful and is kinda obvious where the people are!
So how does this compare with the "Web 2.0" sites?
Hive vs "Web 2.0"
I'm more active on Twitter compared to FB due to interacting with most of the Electronic Music Alliance community there. Obviously, I'm not getting any post/tweet rewards on either sites but I definitely get more interaction on Twitter vs FB. I also get tagged in a LOT of things but the reason I mostly left FB was because the interaction was REALLY bad for artist pages!
Final Straw
A couple of years ago, I spent money advertising my FB page to grow it and it has over 12,000 "followers" on there... but because of FB's algorithms limiting who sees your posts and it not really feeling like a place to support long form content (as far as I could tell - post a picture of a bottle of wine and get those likes baby!), I thought, sod that. Money grabbers!
I dare say FB created a load of fake accounts to make it feel like these page adverts were working so I'd cough up more cash to keep them running. Also, FB were, and are, definitely NOT showing my posts to anywhere close to the 12k followers as it tells me my reach is usually no more than 50-100... then they ask for money to "boost" my post to show it to my followers... Bye bye!
New Home in Web 3.0
So I joined Hive (Steem at the time) and never looked back.
That experience on FB did change my approach though and made me consider why I do what I do and how I do it. In the end, I decided to go back to the roots of having fun with just making music and getting lost in my little production world and shared them with a community willing to get involved and I have got to know a LOT of cool people - that's you guys and girls by the way!
And there you have it, Proof of Interaction, which is here on Hive!
What about you? How does Hive compare to the various other platforms/social networks for you? Why did you join Hive?
Let me know in the comments and let's have a chinwag over some digital beer!
Cheers 🍻
Nicky