I hate yellow journalism and that mania that some people have to give only the information that is convenient, and use it to clearly without lying, omit certain parts of a story to make others look like heroes.
Why do you emphasize so much that other platforms make monthly payments and omit or see it unnecessary to clarify that payments to the creator are made once closed the 7 days in which the votes count?
In Patreon if I create, to give you an example a guide to eat better in June 2022, and someone subscribes to get it or support me, I still get my profit (Clearly with discounts), in Hive for example, no matter how many people like or are interested in that content, if you want to get it you can get it for free, and make use of giving me a tip to help your content creator.
And I don't hate Hive, nor do I think that Patreon is taking care of its creators with these measures; But the way to sell this, our platform is not with lies.... Because the problem is not, has not been and never will be, attracting public to Hive, the problem of Hive is that there is NO USER RETENTION and this is because we sell this as the future of the world, the holy grail, the internet revolution and it takes people little more than two months to realize that it is not so.
It's good to want to attract the public, it's good to show the benefits of the platforms... But omitting information and selling a product by making it look better than anything else, benefits no one.
I created this information primarily for the gFam blog which aims to introduce Hive to a brand new audience. For that reason, I tried to distill all the information about Hive into something easily consumable and not overwhelming.
I actually thought about explaining the 7 day vote system, but decided against it because it might be too confusing... especially since most users on Hive are receiving small amounts of income most days. If you look at my wallet I'm receiving tiny amounts of Hive every day, despite posting irregularly. So, I left it out to refrain from confusing new people.
I definitely don't think I was lying with this omission, most users I know are posting every day, so they receive payments every day. This is not the case with Patreon.
If someone subscribes to your June 2022 guide, that's great... but how many people are subscribing monthly for one-off content? Patreon is introducing a tipping feature with its new changes, which I think will support this usecase a lot better.
Yes, the way dApps work on Hive at the moment is that everyone receives content for free, but upvotes also don't cost the audience anything except for the opportunity cost, so a creator providing content for free isn't negatively impacted.
On gFam.live, I mentioned that creators can provide gated-content which does require a tip to unlock, this is a cost to the audience who transfers their cryptocurrency from their wallet to the creators wallet in order to access the content.
I disagree with the user retention for Hive. You can see here the peaks and troughs:
and you can get more statistics and information here:
https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@arcange/hive-statistics-20231007-en
Again, I'd like to clarify, I didn't omit information to mislead my audience, but instead wanted to introduce Hive to new people without overwhelming them.