{"id":18706,"date":"2020-08-02T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2021-09-11T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:56:04","slug":"hive-does-not-really-need-more-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/hive-does-not-really-need-more-users\/","title":{"rendered":"HIVE DOES NOT REALLY \u201cNEED\u201d MORE USERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only thing anyone has ever gotten from sitting on the fence is a plank up their arse.<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

This month is my forth anniversary on Steemit\/Hive, and here are five of my opinions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1. What Hive needs is more opinions, more creativity, more free expression, more <\/b>pictures<\/b><\/span>, more balls, more humour, and more guts. It needs less fear \u2013 less fear of offending anyone, less fear of turning into another fucked up train wreck like Steemit, less fear of being wrong, and less fear of not being \u201cliked\u201d. This platform is not Fakebook \u2013 and that is good, because Fakebook is a lump of shit.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Additional \u201cusers\u201d mostly bring nothing to a platform \u2013 they bring no investment, no content, no meaningful engagement. Finding more sheeple and encouraging them to post selfies on Hive so that we just grow a big flock of numpties posting more mindless shit in order to create a bigger \u201ccommunity\u201d is delusional. A large pack of morons posting crap is called Twatter, and it already exists. There is no point in making another one.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Post what you need to say, and post the content you want to see. We have plenty of people here \u2013 there are already thousands! – Don\u2019t wait for some new users to come along and post \u201cbetter content\u201d or to do \u201cmore engagement\u201d. We are it, we have the platform we need right now, we just need to take of our muzzles and express ourselves for fucks sake.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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4. Do this for yourself. If you are just posting in the hope of being liked and rewarded you will be endlessly disappointed. Much of the biggest voting is automated, and many of the big investors don\u2019t give a toss about content. They want to autovote endless variations of the same long, boring, worthy, posts by the same approved accounts every day. The best content does not get the best payouts \u2013 it never has and it never will. Get over it and post what you want to see yourself.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Videos are a waste of everyone\u2019s time. There are occasional exceptions, but videos have become the new TV \u2013 boring, time wasting mind programming \u2013 anyone who mindlessly sits there watching some puppet blathering on for 45 minutes to say something that a literate person could read and understand in 3 minutes if it was well written, has just wasted 42 minutes.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t be arsed watching videos, so I don\u2019t \u2013 I also don\u2019t usually comment or vote on them, and if people keep posting videos I unfollow them. My usual cut off point for watching the very occasional videos I can be bothered to look at is five minutes, but most don\u2019t make it past 30 seconds. And almost every post that is just a link to a video is another shitpost. On Hive we could all have more engagement so long as we don\u2019t waste our time here staring at videos. Write more comments or something.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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None of us are always right about everything, but we are all capable of expressing ourselves. And if we really struggle with that, there are lots of other platforms specifically designed for morons who want to stare at shitposts. There is now even one specifically for doing that in Korean \ud83d\ude42 But if you would like to see Hive take off, get off the fence, remove the plank from your sphincter, and express yourself!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The only thing anyone has ever gotten from sitting on the fence is a plank up their arse. This month is my forth anniversary on Steemit\/Hive, and here are five of my opinions: 1. What Hive needs is more opinions, more creativity, more free expression, more pictures, more balls, more humour, and more guts. 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