I love Hive and I have only been here for about a week. Well, I used to have Steemit - but I certainly don't feel the same way as 2 years ago.
I started blogging on social media about 3 years ago, when I created my own brand called "AI Coding". The main reason behind creating this brand was because I was bored at work and it was not very fulfilling. I wanted to create something of my own.
I first started by creating the basic accounts - whatever everyone was creating: Instagram. It was fairly easy to grow there: a girl who codes - you can imagine 🚀
On Instagram I was just sharing nice pictures of myself and trying to write (like a blog post) interesting stuff about Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning... and every now and then I started creating fun videos about my Computer Vision projects and ideas. A lot of people started following me in the beginning... I even got famous singers and artists reaching out to me. I felt like I've made it in life back then. Everything eventually ended up being very fake, obviously. Like almost everything Instragram gives you. It's - to me - a very shallow platform.
I am not gonna lie and say that I didn't benefit from it. I did, of course: free desks, met some cool developers and got to participate in cool debates online. However, I didn't feel that it was the platform to be recognized and rewarded for my work. If anything, the opposite to that. I was starting to feel that the content was consuming me and I was getting nothing out of it. In fact, not a lot of people do. Therefore, I jumped to another platform: YouTube.
YouTube gave me a bit more of hope - the algorithm was definitely more optimal, but the good content also gets shadowed by some of the shallowest content out there.
Hive is different.
I am still very new to everything related to Blockchain technology, but I can already feel more satisfied with my content being published here than anywhere else.
You literally get rewarded for sharing your experiences, your knowledge. I identify more with my audience, and my audience identifies more with my content too.
You are not scared of being censored, regulated. And your audience "flows" with that as well. There is less competition feeling and more community development. I am not saying that competition doesn't exist, but you are rewareded with good content, you are basically being told to creae GOOD - not harmful or demeaning - content which will not be rewarded and not count as competitive. We embrace each other, we don't drag people down.
The rewards go directly to you - the content creator, not third parties. BELIEVE ME, THIS IS KEY. LIKE SUPER KEY. GOLDEN!
I think even if someone just uses Hive in the begining to "get rich quick", that person will eventually understand why s/he stayed using the platform as their social media alternative.
And you...? What do you like/dislike about Hive?