My Analysis of Hive Versus Steemit after 4 Years of being on Steemit
My 4th Year Anniversary on "Steemit"
So the other day I posted an article and I received a badge on my HIVE post congratulating me for 4 years being on this HIVE platform. Which yes, is true, my Steemit account which became a HIVE account is now 4 years old. I have had a great time with both platforms, and I look forward to many more years of posting content on HIVE. However, that all being said I still have a Steemit account. So as a content creator with limited time, which platform should I be investing my time in?
The Homepage Comparison
Being a content creator with a large audience on a censored and controlled platform like YouTube, one of the reasons we use Steemit or Hive is to bring our audience over. To bring them over, ease of sign up is key, and well the homepage for the site is also very important.
So what does the HIVE Homepage and what does the Steemit Homepage look like for my mainly English speaking audience that would be seeing these platforms for the first time?
Hive Homepage:
Steemit Homepage:
Anyone can clearly see from the above that Hive for an English speaking audience, is going to be far more attractive and interesting. For one, almost all of the articles that trend now on steemit are written in Chinese or Japanese I think. I don't even know or care. None of them look interesting at all.
Also the top articles and have been so for weeks are always these 100 days and now it's 1000 days on steemit articles. Look I have been on this platform for 4 years now, why do I care about someone's 100 day experience? I don't. The homepage of Steemit is absolute garbage pile now.
Now looking at Hive's homepage, I see articles that are at the top of the homepage because they actually look interesting and they also happen to be in a language my audience will read. I think other languages are beautiful, but my audience doesn't speak them nor do I.
So the straight comparison it is obvious Hive has better content on it's homepage that will attract more users to join than Steemit.
Payouts for Creators?
Same Content on two blockchains, which blockchain is more financially rewarding to be posting on?
Hive Earnings
Steemit Earnings:
So as you can clearly see, for posting the EXACT SAME CONTENT, I am earning about .014 cents per post on Steemit and about $4 dollars per post on Hive. That is 28 times more lucrative. So I will have to make 28 posts on Steemit to earn what I make in 1 post on Hive. This does not look good for Steemit as well, if you tell content creators that after 4 years of promoting a platform and bringing thousands of people on board that your posts will be making a mere .14 cents for post, they will NEVER EVER use your platform.
Steemit is basically toast, I don't see how they can turn this thing around, and they are not doing anything to fix the issues. The whales and dolphins over there are upvoting garbage content no one is going to read.
Conclusion
The payouts and the content on Hive are better. The Hive Platform will over time continue to grow and develop a larger user base and bring in creators. Steemit will become some platform only used in Asia, and will slowly as it is doing fade out. I am thinking of cashing out every penny of STEEM I have left and just focusing on HIVE. Hive seems to be way better already than Steemit ever was.
SteemIt is done sun! I thought you were keeping up with this?
( Not being snarky just offering my services if you need a better explanation. )
As a content producer, Stay on HIVE and Promote it for your own sake.
Leave Steem to th3e entractible battle they're now in between the CIA, RUssians and ChiComs.
( Look it up... No Joke )
... Which means it will still be useful for Comms and as a crypto.
WE broke HIVE off from those chumps for a big reason.
HIVE is the better chain, hands down. You do not have to take my word for it.
Afterall... I JUST write sci fi.
As a fellow Masshole, I hear you! I stopped posting on the Steem platform a few months ago because it's largely just a vote farming bot operation. That and who the hell knows what the content created in Chinese or Korean even says. I translated one persons post from Chinese to English and it was okay but I can't be doing that for every post I want to engage with, it's just not time efficient. The posts there could just be copies of the encyclopedia for all I know, I'm not going to bother translating them with the limited time I'm on here.
What I like about Hive is that it's also a lot more engaged with people talking with each other in comments. There are completely minimal comments going over on Steem on most posts but here on Hive some of the posts are getting between 20 to over 100 comments! I think that's incredible and shows that we have such a more robust community.
I haven't followed your content that closely lately given other priorities but I appreciate that you're a popular YouTube content creator that is posting on here. I try to support you and others that do that as much as I can. We need more popular folks on the interwebs to attract people over to here! We are doing a good job on the Twitter front and others but people with good followings like you and others will be able to bring pretty good followers. In fact I learned about and signed up for Steem back in the day via Nathan (Lift the Veil) so it proves how important that message is!
The difference between central control and the freedom that comes with decentralization. 😉
One of the current advantages to Hive over Steem is also that the front ends that are available and the vast improvements they have begun making in support of the Hive Block Chain Fork.
We will be having our first Hard Fork to fix several hold over issues from the steem fork, and then the Smart Media Token hard fork after things settle down on Hive's first Hard Fork. I still hope to see the social change fork before the first anniversary of Hive, but will have to wait and see if when that will happen. (Witness selection retention, down vote issue, and reward curve correction).
I, for one, am very happy with how the Community System is beginning to work out, and look forward to more improvements in that area also.
There could be an opportunity in th future for the current witness nodes to lose consensus and the controlling stake so it could be run by the community again (as opposed to Tron-inserted Chicom controllers).@titusfrost the largest holder of steem has cashed out around 25million STEEM recently.
Still, it's great to see you around on #HIVE, you were my original inspiration in joining steemit all those years ago.
And I do believe you are right with this:
Glad that you signed up from Titus here! I had a similar experience with another content creator that has since stopped posting but he attracted me over to the platform when it was Steem!
The Hive is Alive and Well.
....and on TAP.
It FLOWs
INNCREEEEDIBLE!
I get it...this is amaaaazing! All of thisssss!!!!!!
Many happy returns,
And Jesus, what a shit show Steem has become!
I’ll not be posting on Steem ever again, unless to mock 😬
Yeah I haven’t logged in in months!
I will when STEEM hits 100 Sats 🤣
Steemit is going to garbage.and same thoghts are mine.. Hive is best and people are coming to hive.. I love you hive
Steemit really disappointed some of us.
What did you expect from a CPC front?
Use peakd.com, condenser is just embarrassing, imo.
That thing has never looked good, to me.
I can only see steem dropping in value and fading away over the next couple of years. The majority of apps and users that made if interesting have left and unfortunately there is not much left to bring people there. Hive is consolidating its position.
It has the apps and most of the users. We are re growing the user base and planning to expand and market it. There are lots of developments on the way so hopefully we can grow the system and bring the community to life.
I have three years myself and sold all of my steem, mostly to buy into hive. I'm going all in here and hope to see it thrive in the future. It's the people that make it special. Without them, there is no hive.
I just celebrated my 3rd birthday here. I too originally started out as a Steemian but now it's very obvious that STEEMIT, the platform is dead to me.
I've cashed out and converted all of my STEEM to HIVE and continue carrying on.