IMO, the main thing Hive needs to thrive is quality. I shy away from sharing my content on Hive, even though it's the only publicly available writing I have, because much of the quality is sub-par. I'm hesitant to spread the word for Hive because I feel like I'm trying to shill people on an MLM.

I'm here because I have a vision of what Hive will be, not because of what it is. It's a big ask for newcomers to try a new platform out because of that vision.

PeakD is a quality blogging platform relative to Hive.Blog, but it's not publicly available to people without an account. Within peakD, quality is hard to find. Discovery — one of the biggest aspect of successful social platforms — is rudimentary on PeakD, both in feed and search (search barely works!). And PeakD seems like the most successful social platform we have!!

I'd say Hive needs one, small quality feed to get things going. This can be done with a community, though this community may have to be closed / invite only. At least initially, as way to cultivate quality. Maybe this is sacrilege to some, and seems like censorship. The difference is, this is just one community and anyone can start a community with their own rules. I think that's fair.

One way to do this might be to target a subreddit, and port it to Hive. Create an account for everyone that posted in subreddit in the past 30 days, port all posts from the past 30 days, and DM people on the subreddit their keys. You could even go a step further and airdrop them (funded from DHF / posts?) to get them started.

I'm sure many will hate this idea, but it's a thought. I'm curious what people have to say.