Follow Friday - Hope in sight?
We are several months into this experiment known as Hive. We have lost a fair few users who would rather use the corrupted Steem and others who got fed up with the drama. They have had time to power down, so it is up to us to have an influence on the $Hive price, which has stalled. It lingers next to $Steem at the bottom of the @Coingecko top 100.
Visits to Hive.blog are increasing, but we have to keep the momentum going.
We could do with more people like @nathanmars who is working pretty much full time on Twitter to promote the platform. Give that Twitter suffered a major breach this week we have an opportunity to make more people aware of the alternatives.
We have to see out hopeful signs and tell the world. Last week I featured @dannewton on #FollowFriday. He mentioned that he knew a load of other new Hivers in the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire area, so here they are. @fastchrisuk @richgaynor @wildonewon @purplephoto @neilru75 @flashpointstudio @fizogphotography @ebabb @audreyvr are all into #photography. I hope they all appreciate that Peakd is a great site to show off your picures as it allows viewing them large and even does full screen slide shows. This sort of concentration of users makes meetups more viable. @c0ff33a has one in Halifax in September that is not too far from this bunch. I know a few people who are going, but it is a bit too far from me to work as a day trip.
There is a #teamuk tag you can use to show you are in the UK and it may earn you an extra vote.
@slobberchops has a post where he mentions Dan and some other accounts you may with to check out.
I also want to mention witnesses. These people are essential to keep the Hive blockchain running. Many of them are active developing dapps as well as working on the blockchain itself. Others do promotional work. You can show your appreciation by voting for up to 30 of them. You should check if any you vote for are inactive. Millions of 'vests' in votes are still going to some who have done nothing in years. You can set another user as a voting proxy if you want. I cannot see a way to do that on Peakd, but you can do it on Hive.blog (at the bottom of the page).
We can each play a part in the success of Hive from which we could all gain. Even if you do not have a lot of Hive Power you can talk about it on other social media and with friends directly. If you recruit someone who needs some delegation then let me know.
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Shall we ban powerdown :)
I am generally against banning things as freedom is a wonderful thing. I know some people need the money and Hive helps them get by. I am against shortening the power down period.
Can we ban stupidity?
😁
We can not ban. But we can be more polite.
Thanks for the namecheck @steevc it surprises me there are 104K unique visitors...
I'm not sure how reliable that visitor number is. We know that only a few thousand people actually use Hive, but maybe links around the web bring people here. Peakd gets less visitors, but other stats showing it may have more active users. Active users are what really matters and we have a lot of work to do there.
I hear you helped recruit some of these people. Do you have any secrets on how to do that effectively? I've talked about Steem/Hive to lots of people. A few joined, but few are still active. I know part of it is lack of audience, but others are uneasy about the lack of central control.
We have a private group on FB where I've answered questions on how to get going with Hive. PeakD for me has been by far a better solution and is what Flickr should have evolved in to. The idea that PeakD is a paid replacement for Flickr was my tack for selling the idea.
The biggest problem I encountered was to make the whole thing user friendly and easier to explain to get their heads around the concept of gaining a reward for social media interaction.
The main topics / queries were:
One way I could see this gaining traction is to actually advertise on other platforms if it was allowed. It would take a bunch of witnesses to join together and actually pay for the advertising and they wouldn't necessarily gain from it...
There are various tutorials out there, but they need to be linked from peakd and hive.blog so anyone can find them. The community ought to be able to put something together. Can include videos and needs to be in other languages too.
The anti-plagiarism and other anti-abuse projects need to be responsive and not put good people off. That has been an issue. I have worked with the people around @steemflagrewards. People make us aware of abuse and we can individually choose to deal with it. It's important to have some sort of verification that your account is genuine such as a link from another site or a photo/video proving your ID.
Using HiveOnboard (with your own referral link) makes it fairly easy to create an account, but I can create them for people too as I have done many times. I will delegate to newbies to start them off.
Not having a central company means raising funds for ads is tricky. There is a marketing effort looking at options around @hivepeople.
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BEER.I think you need to come up to Halifax and @c0ff33a's get together to teach us how to get people on here. I have a real hard time, you seem to have the magic touch. I am more than happy to help Urbex people, but they are just not interested, even with the promise of $$.
It's astonishing how many ask where the money comes from. I guess that's because people are so weary of Internet scams these days.
Thanks very much for the name check, I'm still within my first month of using hive but finding it a lot more rewarding and supportive than some other platforms 👍
That's good to hear. It looks like your posts are doing well. Building community is key and having that local hub of users is great. You can help show others what is possible. We just have to reach that tipping point for this to go viral.
Where have all these come from, all in the Lincoln area? Someone needs a medal for bringing them to HIVE.
Precisely! This makes a big difference to the active UK community. We need more local hubs like this.
Ah a new bunch of Hivers! Great news! I will check them out over a few beers this evening!
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BEER.Looks like UK Hivers are on the rise.
Let's build thriving Hive community in the UK
Looks like UK Hivers are on the rise.
Let's build thriving Hive community in the UK
I like the suggestion of selling peakd as a better flickr. Just need tutorials on how to do the basics and to get people sorted out at the start.
Thank you for the mention, had lots of issues getting in, but enjoying it here , lots to learn. Everyday I seem to find something more.
Hive is not the easiest thing to get into, but I see great potential in it. Always good to see people joining up.
BTW It's not really worth you voting on comments as they won't get above the 'dust' threshold. Need over 2000HP before it will pay out. Better to add you votes to posts to do some good.
Can we find who is voting for inactive witnesses and contact them somehow?
It should not be too hard to extract the lists. You really want to find those that others have used as a proxy. Many of these accounts may be inactive, but I suspect some just do not check their votes are doing good. We need someone to run some scripts to see which big active accounts need to review their votes.
Very wonderful way of creating awareness
We are getting close to that first all important hard Fork. Hopefully it will go well with out to many issues. I think that could be the telling fork of what makes us different from other social block chain sites.
The meet-ups are a great way to get people interested in Hive, the Austrian Community has had a couple of meet-ups and new folks sign up, I think they are hosted by @mammasitta, I have found a few new photo/traveler and varies others to follow.
I will try to get around to looking at the ones mentioned above by you, I do like the photography travel posting.
I think we have some good developers who can handle a hardfork as they all left Steem to come to Hive.
Meet-ups are great and @nathanmars is doing them weekly in London now. Obviously it is not the ideal time to do this, but we can do it virtually too. I know some have done public Zoom calls.
Community is key to success. It's the people who make Hive fun.
It is, and I thank you for the list of photographers, I have them all added to my peakd list for easy content browsing later.
Strongly agree
That's also my opinion and my focus last year more than ever
Yes!
I am not very active in posting articles but my focus is to grow our community and educate, share my experience I gained since June 2016.
I organize crypto-brunches at my home regularly, at least once a month and many new members joined, started also writing wonderful articles. You can find them reblogged on my profiles @massivevibration and my personal one. @heryanna is one of the new members....and many more 🌻🙏
I have added several to the various PeakD list that I keep, and check in every now and then on them.
Fantastic! I was impressed that you caught on my activity here in Vienna 🙏
I have been following you since you first helped get me started on steem way back in September 2017. I have even helped a few out with small delegations from my alt account, and try to help them with votes when I can. I have all the people I delegated to on a peakd list, and in the evening I give it a click to see if they need a vote on something.
I do remember you so so very well and alway happy to see that you stayed with us :) Keep going!!!! Simply beautiful!!! I had to slow down because I had some serious health issues but all solved now and soon I will write about it
Glad you are feeling and doing better.
I am getting there :) step by step ❤️
Good to hear you are having some success. Obviously it is not a great time for meet-ups, but we can act via other social media.
Hope you are well.
I keep going ....there will be better days again. I conquered a beast and my health is improving every day more. Thanks for asking. Best wishes back to you!
I've been trying to be more active on Twitter, but I can't say as though it is bringing any more users to the platform. Nor does it seem to be bringing any new users to my posts. I want to like Twitter, but right now it just seems like a lot of disparate voices screaming at the world.
A lot of my Twitter feed is from people already on Hive, but I have created accounts for a few people through it. If I tweet an offer to do so then others re-tweet it to spread the message. I am much more active on Hive of course.