When we run our weekly missions with the Liotes project, I often get inspired by the answers that I get from our community. This week we have asked them why hive is special and the answers that we have recieved were pretty interesting. Some answers were quite expected but others were quite suprising...
The easiest way to earn with social media
I had once a monetized youtube channel and it was in the very early days. I managed to earn some money until the day that they kicked me out. Nowadays, it's pretty tough to get monetized with traditional social media. Either you need to have tons of followers or you have to build a whole business structure behind your channel with products or affiliate offers. With Hive you have the option to earn within 7 days of your first post. You earn maybe not that much but the barrier of entry is quite low.
Maybe this is also the reason why there are quite a lot of people who try to game the system but we have a solution...
Downvotes make hive special
I was very surprised when @incublus mentioned that. As a moderator for the Turkish community, I can totally understand why he thinks like that. Each one of us has the tool to avoid abuse. We don't rely on a centralised entity to control the activity of all the users. Even if I am not a big fan of downvotes, it's probably true that their existence is very important for hive to avoid being exploited by people who are ill intentioned.
We can participate in shaping the future of the blockchain
Hive offers each of us the power to participate in shaping the future on the blockchain. @shiftrox is quite right that everyone has something to contribute in how we evolve as a chain. We are part of the history. We define with our votes how the reward pool is distributed. We define how much stake we want to have and how much we want our voice to count. We can vote on proposals and chose the witnesses we want. We also have the option just to write our ideas down in the form of posts or comments and shape the ideas of others. Our voice on Hive matters!
The Swiss army knife for online activity
On hive you can do pretty much everything that you want. You can read stuff, you can write stuff in long form or short form. You can publish videos. You can post photos. You can interact with others. You have drama. You can play games. You can share your experiences. You can learn from others. You can build your project. You can trade and you can make money. There is something for everybody and each of us can define his own role on hive. You will find a community of similar minded people and since most of the communities are small, you will be quickly adopted if you behave accordingly.
Hive brings out the human sides in us
If you spend some time on platforms like facebook or tiktok, you undoubtedly will be run over hatred and polarisation. Of course we have some of that on hive as well but compared to these platforms, it's a very different experience. In spite of being the online home of people from all over the world, we tend to be respectful with each other. On hive positive behaviour is rewarded. With our upvotes we give value to others and at the same time we generate curation rewards for us. We can thank people for their time when they read and comment on our posts by giving them upvotes or using tools like commentrewarder. On hive you are happy if your friends are successful because this means that their hive power will grow and their upvotes will be worth more. Building links with as many people as possible is positive because you increase your influence on the chain and you bring value to others and at the same time this value comes back to you.
After spending some days being confronted with my tiktok algorithm that has decided that American politics is my centre of interest, it's so refreshing to be on hive and to have people that actually care about others...
Hive is far from being perfect but we sometimes forget how great it is
On hive nobody can forbid you from posting and nobody can take away your account. Of course it's possible that some people get downvoted for a reason or another but they can still post and they don't lose their accounts. Hive is probably one of the few places where there is real freedom of speech and where in spite of that people try to engage with each other in a respectful way. I believe that this is worth much more than the rewards that we get. There are definitely some problems that need to be tackled on hive but in general we have it quite nice here....
Do you agree with that?
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