D.Buzz Offers A Different Hive Experience

D.Buzz has been open for business for a few days now. There are still some features that are in the works, like photo uploads. However, the core functionality for micro blogging is there. Overall, it is a much different experience from the long form blogging that we are accustomed to on Hive.

Granted, there is no solid rule that says that a blog post must be long on Hive. As there is no Hive owner, there is no hard rule on how to use Hive. However, the community, at least in the days of STEEM, has shown a distaste for "shitposts", which often consisted of short updates. I vaguely recall that Steem wanted to be the place to find quality content. Anything deemed of lesser quality was frowned upon. Consequently, we have all accepted that long posts are preferable, which persists on Hive.

This is not the case with D.Buzz where the maximum post size is 280 characters. Like Twitter, D.Buzz requires short posts and only allows short replies. Fortunately, these posts are sequestered in a Hive Community where the traffic remains out of the main Hive feed, where it won't bother people who only want long posts. That is unless you are a member of the D.Buzz Community. In that case, you will see D.Buzz posts in the main feed.

One of the benefits of having short posts is that they are fast to read and digest. This allows your audience to provide faster comments and upvotes. The subject matter may be a bit more banter than the typical Hive post. However, it takes advantage of underutilized Resource Credits. Assuming one writes four posts daily and makes comments on several posts per day, it is challenging to bring down Resource Credits below 90%. I think most of us have similar experiences with Resource Credits topping up to 100% before we finish reading the next post for comment.

As far as upvotes go, it is not common practice on Twitter to favorite posts based on content quality. Normally, one favorites posts worthy of bookmarking. In the same sense, I don't think D.Buzz will be a place where members sink all their Hive upvotes. I think it is understood that quality is not the goal. Rather, it is just quick status updates or interactions.

One of the major advantages of Twitter is that in its brevity it is great for headlines and instant updates. This is why Twitter is an excellent source of news. I could see D.Buzz having such updates as well, with the advantage of better comment threading. Another advantage to Hive doing short posts is that bad behavior is discouraged via reputation. Posts from bad actors are hidden. Thus, we are protected from abuse.

Overall, I think having a microblogging community is a great addition to Hive. Since it is hidden out of the way where only members of the Community can see posts, D.Buzz remains out of sight from the Quality Content Police. It allows for faster exchanges between members, which is actually better suited for building a sense of community. And, having microblogging is a great use of Resource Credits, which most of us have trouble using to their full advantage.

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