While we're working on more comprehensive lists of tested subreddits to share your hive posts onto to make it easier for new sharers to earn some POSH and Hive by doing so, I thought I'd take the time to give people some additional beneficial options when sharing for instance @peakd links!
Did you know that when you copy a link to a post you can do so directly from @peakd? Let's take a look at a recent post as an example!
This amazing drawing by @julsdraws in the Holozing community:
Now I wanna go ahead and share it on Reddit. Instead of going to reddit.com/r/holozing in the address field, I can simply go down to the reward info section of her post and click "share link".
Clicking on Twitter for instance let's me quickly and easily share it on there through a pop-up window:
Now of course that's not the most optimal way to share things on Twitter any longer, you're supposed to place links in a reply under the initial tweet to avoid getting "hidden" away by the algo. You can do the same thing for Reddit but it seems that the link is missing when submitting the share, and you gotta keep in mind to select the community you want to share into which will show you the ones you're subscribed to or you can search for it by typing.
Now that you've selected the correct subreddit:
Here's an additional trick to reward you potentially forever if the right person happens to click on your Reddit link!
By clicking on the "Referrals Link" it will automatically copy a @peakd referral link based on your Hive username when sharing a specific post. In this case it was: https://peakd.com/hive-131131/@julsdraws/light-healer-in-a-zappit-attire-holozing-fanart?ref=acidyo
Now the peakd link is in the subreddit and people can view the image and click on it to get here. If it's someone without a Hive account, they will have to create one to be able to comment on your shared post here on Hive.
Reddit also offers some nice share analytics for each post, usually updated a few hours after you share as you can see in a previous share of mine in the Holozing community:
While the Holozing community is quite small, this can be quite effective in bigger communities, even if your share doesn't do well in terms of reddit upvotes, here's a @spknetwork post I shared the other day for instance:
We have some analytic rewarding ideas in mind to jumpstart on the HivePOSH community soon so stay tuned for that!
Okay so what does it mean to share your referral link when sharing hive links to reddit? (there may be front-ends other than peakd offering referral links with different reward structures as well)
Well, they'll be sent to Hiveonboard.com where they'll hopefully be granted a free Hive account if they verify with SMS and once they get it created and login there's some special metadata in place for that account who used your referral link to signup!
Peakd will be granted beneficiary metadata that sets them as beneficiary of the new users posts up to 1%. Another 1% will go to the account credit provider for the free Hive account, in this case that'd be @ocdb (or others) as they're providing hiveonboard with free Hive account tickets. Lastly, 3% will go to the referrer which is you in this case.
This means that for every post this new author makes, you'll receive 3% of their post rewards. If you get someone who's genuine and active and garners a lot of upvotes that's quite some decent passive income for you, especially if you do this well and end up inviting many over time.
Keep in mind though that these beneficiary settings aren't enforced, they can be removed by the user at any time, usually when they learn enough about Hive or maybe they won't mind it and leave it on since without you they most likely wouldn't have gotten any monetary rewards to begin with! Either way if you're looking to grow your hivepower, sharing links with referral code included can be a great way to combine it with POSH incentives allowing you to earn POSH, Hive from the @redditposh comments and additionally referral rewards in the form of beneficiaries.
Here's hiveonboard sending @peakd alerts that someone created an account through them, I believe peakd gets the 3-4% beneficiaries in that case if it wasn't direct user referrals sending people to peakd through their ref link:
and on the activities page you can check @peakd receiving referral rewards from active authors having joined Hive through them! Not too shabby!
Sharing is caring and can be quite rewarding! There's quite a few tools out there but not many using them so figured this post might help some of you do better longterm!