RE: How to Drive Engagement?
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I fear you might be vastly over thinking this.
I think this is more simple than we realize, and probably because we get so hyper focused on it.
These things you mention could be 'fixed' with the following:
We need amazing content creators marketing themselves off chain and normalizing the platform. The more great content is seen and read by normies, the more the platform becomes normalized.
All those creators need is a simple incentive structure to encourage people to join hive and interact with their content. Weekly giveaways, competitions, voting on what happens next - etc.
Eventually the normies will outnumber us as the platform exponentially grows.
Great content, great representation on other platforms, and great onboarding incentives should be the the priority.
So I ask you - can you write or create something so good that it could draw people over here?
^ that's the focus in my opinion. Everything else comes after that.
Not all of us can create 'killer' content, but we can engage with it. We have to tempt some 'influencers' over to Hive to bring in the masses. It may just take a few brave pioneers to turn things around and reach a tipping point. I've been waiting 4 years for this so far.
We are in catch 22: In the last three+ years I've seen great content creators come and go quickly again. The community doesnt seem to value great content creators. Rewards went (and still goes) to bad content while good content was (is) not rewarded. Hence, I think I'm one step further already in realising we will not get those great content creators. That said, you mentioned those creators shall get the right tools. Well, the question is: What are these tools, and how can we make sure the tools are predominately used for its purpose (not for abuse).
I think we need much more for the HIVE ecosystem, big changes, including removing HIVE as a reward mechanism for content and curators. We need SMT for that. Earlier today I wrote a long comment addressing what I think is needed in our eco-system to grow, HIVE and everything in and around it. In case you are interested, here's the comment: https://peakd.com/hive-181335/@edje/re-theycallmedan-202089t183625659z