Well... You're right about the issue of YouTube ads, that most users prefer to use ad blockers to avoid seeing them between each video they play. But otherwise, I believe that paying for ads on other Web2 social networks can be profitable, although the most that could be achieved is that people become aware of Hive because of the sheer volume of ads. I don't know if that's good or bad for Hive's image itself.

Personally, I prefer to focus on incentivizing the users and creators already here on Hive to share on Web2.0: Our user experience in personal, professional, and other aspects of life. The idea of paying a certain number of people to perform certain tasks doesn't quite make sense to me in the long term; it's more of a commitment or contract than a simple incentive. Once they run out of the thousand dollars, they'll stop doing the tasks and leave Hive, which is why I prefer to do it on my own without expecting any reward in return.

Of course, an incentive helps motivate one to make that effort because all of us who have worked with onboarding at Hive know how difficult it is to attract and retain new users.