I always compare Hive to the wild west. There are people with a little power who like to enforce how they think it should be, but it should be about freedom. What is considered abuse can be a matter of opinion in some cases, but why not have short posts? Most people online never read long blogs or articles. We want a slice of that here. Things like DBuzz and Leo Threads could be part of that.
I keep talking about building communities, but I think that is the way forward. Light painting may be a niche interest, but if you can get people from around the world together it can add up. That is what the internet excels at. I grew up at a time when it was hard to find people beyond your own neighbourhood who shared your interests. When I got into computers I had to buy magazines to find out what was happening. Things have changed a lot. I think Hive could be the next generation of online socialising.
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Being here early on with just a handful Light Painters I have seen people onboarding but losing interest and i think that's partly because maybe they miss some easy-to-use and instant gratification. One could argue thats not Hive but I would love to see Hive having two layers. Call it the superficial Instagram layer and the 'In-Dephth' layer with much more description. That could widen the used case and attract fast-food millennial and generation Z users.
Maybe that could accelerate the wider adoption of the platform. The Wild West situation has its charm to find the gems here takes patience that the most need to "re-learn". As you describe reading a longer post is rare nowadays. To be the next-gen platform some things have to get easier. I am hopeful that all the different DApps will hopefully soon get more and more applications to serve the different styles of the Whatever Web3.0 used case is. We have it all within reach here. Absolutely agree!
Interesting times 😎
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