The money didn't make them stay
Asides from the 2 projects I'll be working on soon enough, I decided to work on a personal project so that I could properly control the entire process and learn a few things for myself. Image Source The project I'm currently working on is a web3-based survey project that lets people earn some cryptocurrency by answering survey questions and performing other minor activities like receiving and giving mentorship.
To get a proper perspective of what I'll need to do to make this project useful to users, I decided to ask people a few questions that could help me along the way and the answers I got made me think about Hive and how the incentive of money didn't make people stay.
Money isn't the whole picture
About a year ago, I had a lot of friends making a substantial amount of money here on Hive through amazing content creation. I mentored a couple of them and they were doing really well on the blockchain until things got bad and they left.
For the entire period when they were active here, I tried to make them understand that while motion is good, things can get tiring when you put in a lot of energy in the beginning because if you plan on staying for a very long time, you'd learn to take things slow and steady.
A lot of them came on strong, put out a lot of content and got tired so quickly. They made a lot of money as well but for some reason, the money they made didn't make them stay as long as I would have hoped.
Also, the drop in Hive price played a major role in chasing a lot of people, including me, away for a while. I had Hive as my major source of income so watching it fall made me want to stay away for a while so I could mentally heal.
After staying away for a while, I realized that Hive wasn't about the money alone, it also played a role in maintaining my sanity. While putting out articles every day may have been hard, coming around once in a while to write out my thoughts and random ideas turned out to be healthy.
What can make them stay?
After looking through the information gathered from my survey, I began to ask myself what kind of incentive would be good enough to make people spend more time on Hive than they do on conventional social media.
After a brief thought, I realized that people crave general acceptance a lot more than they crave financial incentives. No doubt the financial incentives on Hive are inconsistent, but they still come from consistency which is a lot better than the attention gotten from conventional social media.
Secondly, conventional SM provides a lot more opportunities than Hive does. If I wrote on other platforms about my job hunt as much as I wrote on Hive, I'm pretty sure I'd be way ahead than I currently am. The absence of people makes Hive a lot less likely to provide me with the kind of breakthrough I need.
Conclusion
Hive is great and I intend on being here for as long as possible due to my love for writing and not necessarily the financial incentives. I realised that focusing on just that would always lead to heartache.
Hopefully, a lot more people see Hive as a means of release and not just a magic money earner.
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