RE: Hive Creators Without Capital, Look At HSBI

a lot to learn, and it's hard to see, let alone explain, the immediate merits of having and using a Hive account.

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.

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.

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:

• the big community was Ecotrain which had a large following and lots of activity. The founder has moved on (or is taking a break), but people still post in that community and maybe you will find like-minded accounts that you can follow and engage with.
• there may be some overlap between your interests and the Homesteading community which is supported with @curie curation; and HiveGarden which is a vibrant community - your post about glyphosates might have worked there, for example.

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!