Hive is Community
Through a series of posts and conversations lately, I have been reminded of just how important community is. Specifically community here on Hive.
In the past, it was quite typical for users to be drawn to the money making aspect of Hive via blogging or vlogging. In more recent years we have seen the addition of gaming as well, whether for profit or purely enjoyment.
Those who have weathered the storm (aka crypto winter of 2018 to 2020) will most likely tell you that the real crux of Hive is the community aspect. It may have taken them a while to see that (I know it did for me), but eventually, you come to realize the community is probably the most valuable aspect of Hive.
The interesting thing is, community is actually a multi-faceted term on Hive.
While you have the overall community that I just talked about, we now also have the individual content communities on Hive. For those of us who have been on the platform for a while, we can attest to the fact of how game changing those communities have been.
To my detriment, I post about a lot of different things. This makes it hard for me to find any "one" community to call home. I will post maybe a couple of times a week in the Leo community, then I might bounce over to one of the music communities... you get the idea.
While I likely have a small amount of name recognition in those communities, I would be hesitant to call myself a "staple" member of any of them.
By contrast, those who dedicate themselves to a single community can achieve significant wealth and success if they put forth the effort.
Here is an example of what I mean:
The other day I came across a name on Hive that I haven't seen in quite a while. Forgive me, I don't remember the exact person, but that isn't really the important part. What matters is the fact that myself and that person started on Hive around the same time back in late 2017.
We were in a couple of the same loose communities that were around back then. Most of them were based in Discord and geared towards growing your account. Over time those defacto groups were dissolved or we slowly moved away from them.
Either way, when that happened, we were still basically on the same level, struggling to get noticed and scraping in whatever rewards we could.
The other day when I came across them again, I jumped over to their blog page and found that they had made a nice home in one of the actual communities on Hive and they were pulling in some pretty hefty rewards from their content.
One would argue that what I pull in from my rewards are nothing to scoff at, and while that is true, this person was pulling in a good two to three times more than me. On every single post.
Keep in mind, the quality of the content has to be there for this to be duplicated. We are thankfully far removed from the bid bots of old and pictures of dogs with a single sentence getting hundreds of dollars in upvotes.
Please also keep in mind that the rewards aren't everything. They are fleeting and as many would tell you, not officially yours until that seven day stretch has come to fruition.
You can see though how big of a difference it can make to find a community to call home and share your content there. I honestly think that new users to Hive have it easier than we did back in the day. They are able to focus their efforts and talents. Us old timers were basically throwing a dart a map and hoping it hit something or even sticks many times.
The countless community incubation programs that are out there now are just the icing on the cake. It's almost sickening how easy it can be to grow your account these days. Trust me, I mean sickening in the most positive way.
I hope this post gives you an idea of just how powerful community (on all its levels) is on Hive.
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