"Hive lies somewhere between the two - kind of socially personable!?"

No i think this is incorrect and this deals with the root of the problem. I don't think hive lies anywhere between the two. I think hive just lies on the side of subscription service model which is one leg of this earning triangle.

So as you mentioned mainstream social media already has that option in products like patreon. membership sites. special bonus content etc., the fan base that wants to pay more are rewarded with more. So they already have that.

I know some would say well no although hive doesn't have the advertising model in the sense it works or sustains the network to some degree. They could raise the idea that well users can come on hive don't have to pay anything to use the service and be participants. The problem though is because the distribution rate on hive is so bad. I don't know the numbers but seeing that pretty much all cryptocurrencies are bad in their distribution models. I don't see where hive has likely solved that i'm sure its as terrible as the rest based on how the model works.

So a few points but let's take the main ones. The thing is the incentive to use hive for the average user is very very low. So even if a content creator moved to hive that was popular or famous. Based on how the hive model works. It's still not very likely a big portion of their base would move with them. That is because the cost benefit of them using hivfe is more expensive than the patreons. I know it sounds weird but its true.

For example many people would erroneously think you lose value if you use facebook or instagram compared to hive. You'd think that right because when you post you don't get anything like compensation or money but thats the wrong way to look at it. You get a ton of free cost effective things. Like you get the potential to reach billions of people that can be used in your business, communication social interactions all very beneficial high value stuff without having to pay the server cost.

In hive the community has to pay for all this stuff under the idea of decentralized social media which many mainstream users can't care about because everytime i look on these platforms people dying to show me pictures of their kids. Show me where they live. Friends i don't want to speak to and haven't spoken to in 20 years telling their entire life stories so i already know what happened to them without even talking to them the last several decades lol.

So this sounds almost totally counter to some of the ideas that the hive blockchain trying to push. What works for hive? The same marketing gimmick that worked originally for steem and that is get paid insane amounts of money for blogs. Like nfts or something.. you just make 20k a blog and that's possible. Thats what drives people here really. The problem is that its not a sustainable model.

Social media sites like facebook worth trillions of dollars are they sustainable which is why they can do the things they do. So when i created bitcoin myk i already had calculated the first several years would be very little value and users. However i could anticipate through the freemium service model with data i have mapped out year after year. That the freemium service model will win in the end and slow walk every other model down.

So i don't want to go into a paper here but i think you get the idea of what i'm saying with a freemium service model..Similar to facebook or netflix etc., Many of the most successful platforms in the world work on a freemium service model. This just seems like the natural progression of crypto. However not to kill dreams or hopes here. If i thought differently i would be saying differently i really don't have that big of a dog in the fight and i push for platforms likely to succeed. There are many things hindering hive but i like it because i do believe there are going to be future models that use for lack of a better idea .. free transactions. Which hive doesn't really do but it's pretty close. So i do think those type systems will emerge as favorites in teh future but with diffferent algos. Hie algo is much too complicated. The system also is much too complicated for mainstream users.

Devs keep going well no they need to get smarter and learn the system. No thats incorrect. The consumer depends on you all to make their products easier and more desirable to use. They depend on the engineer to make the engine what's under the hood. They don't depend on the engineer to make the product aesthically pleasing or market it. This is a big confusion in this space the dev is trying to do all this and failing miserably. It's not going to work. So that's touching on the main issues there.

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