Maybe I am just a little slow in the uptake here, but I just noticed that when I tried to go to the Creativecoin.xyz domain — where a Hive-Engine "outpost" was hosted for the Creativecoin community — I get the message below:
Maybe I missed an announcement somewhere along the way... or maybe I didn't," since the community has lived a tenuous existence for some time, now.
Meanwhile, the alternative front end at Creativecoin.live appears to have suffered a similar fate:
This version was set up by Hive witness @igormuba who is — as best I can tell — still an active witness.
I am always a bit sad and surprised that this particular community and its token — centered around art and creativity, which is near and dear to many members of the Hive ecosystem — always seems to struggle so much.
After all, it's one of the oldest "tribes" in our community, with a Hive-Engine token that's in well over 20,000 wallets, making it also one of the most widely distributed layer two tokens... actually more so than even powerhouse community LeoFinance/InLeo!
Communities Take Toil and Time to Build!
It definitely does take a massive amount of work, time and persistence to make a serious go of a community. I know this from firsthand experience, having been co-admin of a psychology forum many years ago... it took us thirteen years to build the community from a couple of hundred people to some thirty thousand before I decided to take my leave. The community — founded as a simple message board in 1996 — still exists, now over 200,000 strong.
Around here, it seems like many communities are started with great fanfare and enthusiasm, only to fall by the wayside after a relatively short time.
Of course, dodgy and dubious tokenomics don't help. Sometimes the entire premise of Layer Two communities and tokens seems a bit shaky because they so rarely offer a solid and compelling reason to INVEST and HOLD the token, as opposed to just get the token as a reward and cash out as soon as you can.
After all, if everyone just wants to sell, and nobody's substantially interested in buying, then what's holding the token price up? Certainly not a group of bot operating day traders!
Most communities are also not very lively and dynamic, which leaves relatively limited inspiration for members to actively participate. And activity and participation doesn't magically happen by itself... which is perhaps one of the holdovers from a centralized structure: There has to be a "someone" (or someoneS) willing to relentlessly and tirelessly drive things forward.
Does it Make SENSE?
Of course, you have to have a good starting point, which is why I always felt a strong affinity for CreativeCoin.
Art and creativity is a natural niche; you don't need to "stretch reality" to induce people to believe that they could fit in. What's more, it's a broad enough niche that you aren't just trying to cater to a tiny group of users.
Hive's art-related communities have many thousands of members.
Of course, art and creativity tend to be regarded as substantially non-technical, perhaps leaving the open issue of who with a technical inclination would be interested in substantially contributing (time, expertise, coding, etc) to such a non-technical community?
Of course, some might argue that "you can still use the tag and get the coin!"
Fact, but you're missing the point. Simply collecting tokens from rewards does not constitute sustainable community building!
Anyway, I'm going to leave it at that, for now... see if anyone comments or has any bright ideas!
Till the next one, thanks for stopping by!
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Curator Cat, 2023.10.24