RE: Hive Creators Without Capital, Look At HSBI
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Sorry it took me a bit to reply! I really appreciate this explanation of how to do curation from a small HP account that isn't just trying to bet on which content will trend, and especially appreciate that you took the time to link to specific posts. (One thing I've found hard is finding the "source" document for projects I've seen folk mention.)
It sounds like - despite how some of the accounts & projects talk about it - I can earn curation rewards, by (shocker) actually doing good and timely curation. I'm a bit concerned that focusing on curating what I know will leave me voting for posts no one else might see, since my focus is in regenerative agriculture and ecology. For example, looking at the Agricultural Mindset community, posts which don't come from the community organizer sometimes end up without any votes at all.
This kind of encourages me, and I suppose others, to focus on other spots where our curation is going to lead to a payout.
I don't reckon there's an overnight solution to stuff like this, but it is something that has me concerned about Hive as a hosting platform and revenue stream for my own content. ...Which I'm aware makes it sound like I'm here for easy money, and I'm not: I'm here mostly because blockchain means my posts won't get deleted if I decide to spend 6 months off-grid and miss an email from some corporate social media site saying "We've noticed your account is inactive..."
But that doesn't change that content production revenue is a part of things my eco efforts - otherwise, we have to get revenue from things like cutting down trees, and that's not what we wanna do!
So I'm left trying to figure out how best to use my time on Hive now, to help it grow into a space where there's more attention (and thus revenue) directed toward these, frankly, unpopular topics.
Sorry, I got into a bit of a ramble here. I strongly prefer the technology behind Hive to anything else around, and see it being a better tool for lots of my friends, too. But there's just... a lot to learn, and it's hard to see, let alone explain, the immediate merits of having and using a Hive account.
I'll be checking out those giveaways today, and looking into DUO more - you're the second person who's been helping me find my footing to mention it!
There is, there's no doubt about that! Saturday Savers Club might be able to help with that, mainly because there's a supportive community around it. So you might publish a post very similar to the one above, where you're asking questions and positing ideas, and include, as a paragraph, progress on your savings goals and then link the post in a comment on the weekly savers' post. (You could even ask some key questions in your comment).
Following on from that, communities are a tricky thing, they take a lot of investment to build them and not everyone has the time and inclination (or skill) to do that. We had a discussion about whether we should form a Saturday Savers Club community but decided against it because the current arrangement enables Savers to post their savings content in many different communities, disseminating information through many routes, rather than silo-ing it in a community. The challenges of communities are exacerbated because we still have a very small user base at present and there are aren't enough people and community-builders for all the communities we have.
I'm wondering if it's about taking a slightly more generic approach in the next few months? I see you are already posting in diverse general communities, perhaps these ideas will help with (posting and) curating:
Communities:
I tend to vote quite widely except for gaming and sports (there are plenty of other things that interest me), rather than confining myself to one or two areas.
You might also like to check the followers and followed for some of the accounts in the various communities (including the founder of Agricultural Mindset) and see whether there are accounts there that you would like to follow and engage with, so that you're gradually building an interesting feed and like-minded network.
To go back to the original point: the immediate merits of having a Hive account. I would say this is about a) learning how a new technology that has immense potential works, b) having fun while you're doing it and c) meeting many new and interesting people. If you only have an hour a week to spend, that's fine, no one here will mind, many are faced with the same dilemmas, if you are able to spend more, that's a bonus!