What is the Hive Blockchain to You?

When people come onto Hive, their perceptions of it likely influence what they are looking to gain from it. The biggest take away of the blockchain for me is that it's a permanent ledger. What goes on it should forever be saved and retrievable somewhere. Yet this isn't the main reason for me posting content here. For me it was the chance to blog, without having to figure out how to run my own blog and the potential to earn a little something for it was desirable too. However, the layout wasn't really what I'd expected for a blog and its not exactly easy to locate previous content, short of scrolling for ages.

I've experimented with using it more like a Facebook type feed, but there are those who don't really agree with this approach, due to content quality concerns. Yet when I joined, it was being touted as a social media platform. I believe many still refer to it as social media.

Some are more drawn to the idea of the immutable blockchain and what they post is content that they feel needs or deserves to be recorded permanently. Someone has spent hours transcribing documents from the world war onto the blockchain, in order to preserve this information that could one day be lost, as paper isn't indestructible.

Some focus more on the idea of it being decentralised and where they won't be censored like they might be on other social media platforms. For them it might be a place to express themselves more freely.

So what is Hive for you and do you think it's a place that can be broad enough to be lots of different things for different people?

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To me it's anything goes, as long as it's not plagiarized. The vote system decides what is quality or worthy or not. It's unfair to demand long form over short or photography, or eschew short over longer journalism. We aren't Medium, but nor are we Instagram. We are all things. It should be home to all.

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Yes, one would think that the voting system should sort out high effort from low effort and I think it works to a point. The autovotes still land on a particular author, but when they've produced something brief it's often less rewarded from the manual voting that comes later. However it can become a bone of contention when you compare it with a lesser known user who has yet to accrue any autovote following and might have something more in-depth which is less rewarded than the brief popular person's post.

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The question also arises, at what level is something considered plagiarism? Is an account plagiarising if they're transcribing old documents for safe keeping on here? Is it plagiarism if someone working on their art skills uses inspiration from a photo to help them capture the human form? Is it plagiarism if they quote too much of other people's work in their post and how much is too much?

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Is it plagiarism if credit is given where its due?

Eg. Inspired by.. or Original document by..

I think we all start off with nothing and from sheer persistence, effort, consistency we eventually build up a following.

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There have been a couple of heated discussions on this recently. In one case I think the credit given as an "inspired by" would have been acceptable, but in another case someone was on the Hive Watchers blacklist because despite using quotations, they decided it was still plagiarism as did some others. Perhaps because too much of the post was quoted work compared to their own writing? Then there is what is called spinning. At what point is something no longer spinning. Changing the wording a bit is probably spinning, but how much is information repeated across the board and throughout the ages! If you put something in your own words, could it still be classed as spinning because it's been said in other ways before?

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Not sure if my memory serves me right but I vaguely remember there being a general "rule" that posts that are 70%/80% quoted fall under the plagiarized category.

As for spinning. I suppose it depends on how it was spun.

I think the important message to pass across is that if one truly wants to be successful on this platform and gain a following it is highly recommended to create 98% + original content and if you are borrowing material to always give credit.

Creating 100% original content is not hard at all. Take a damn selfie and introduce yourself. Take a photo of your surroundings and talk about your day.

No need to try and sound/seem smart or look elsewhere, just be yourself because that's guaranteed to be original.

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I guess it depends on the content you want to write as to how easy it is to avoid quoting too much. What if you're dissecting or responding to an article and quoting as you go? What if you're writing about a research topic which pulls in information from other sources, are you at risk of being accused of spinning? How would one classify transcribing documents? Valuable service or plagiarising? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Also if we become strict enforcers of the lines we decide to draw, will we put people off joining and risk losing mainstream adoption? Or would people prefer to keep it at a low level of active users who meet a specific criteria? The elite blogging platform, maybe? 🤔🤔🤔

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There is already a heavy traffic around hive. For me it's like enjoying some good read, understanding and knowing few place and culture and meeting few people apart than sharing my mind out.👍

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Sounds like it's certainly a social media for you. 😊

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If it mean that..then yes.....Trully speaking I am not active in any other social media...except Twitter, where everything is related with Hive only

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I find that the social side on Hive is much more sociable than on the traditional social media platforms, which is rather ironic, really.

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That's very true....engagement , discord, communities are great way to make things easy....I belive this lockdown helps in getting social on hive than in real....that's why hive traffic is more too

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Personally, I think hive is more than a social media where contents are not censored unless otherwise. It is also a community where one finds where suits him and share his ideas, learn, unlearn and relearn.

However, the layout wasn't really what I'd expected for a blog and its not exactly easy to locate previous content, short of scrolling for ages.

Well, on this note, I think something like a portfolio should be created for one to easily access ones contents.

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Ah yes, community. The community dynamic on here is very different to that of Facebook, where we start with family and friends and work out, but never really connect much with them. Here the community is spread a across the world and we get to know their interests and passions more from their content and replies.

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It all depends on what you want to read and what you want to create for your followers. IT can be a Facebook like, twitter like or Instagram. The only thing is that, since every post is added as a post to the users feed, we can have a different frontend for having short-form content so that we will not spam everyone's feed with short twitter like contents

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So do you think front-ends which show short form should make sure they aren't showing up on the main front-end feeds (eg hive.blog and peakd)? That would certainly avoid some of the confrontations on quality. I believe dlike stayed on Steem because it wasn't very well supported by much of the Hive community.

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This thing isn't indestructible either. But as long as people want to keep running it, it might last a bit longer than paper :)

Hive is "easy" crypto for me. I've been vaguely interested since early bitcoin but all those ones were too hard to get into (and also when I do have money I always have/need to do something with it).

And yes to the last question.

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Nothing is permanent, not even this earth. It should outlast us though, hopefully...

Hubby kept talking to me about how we should buy some of this bitcoin. I'd reply, "sure, go for it," but eventually realised what he was actually trying to say was "see if you can figure out buying this bitcoin." So when I find Steem/Hive I ended up having to figure out a bit about crypto anyway. Like you, there are always other things that money needs spending on before buying crypto, so I've still never gotten around to looking into buying bitcoin.

Now what was that last question again...

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For me hive, it is a beautiful family, where we share our experiences day by day. And that gives us the opportunity to improve ourselves. :D Greetins friend!

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There have been such a variety of answers. It's great that we can accommodate such a variety of experiences.

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For me its a place to just write about or read about what I feel like, without worry of trolls.

Setting up communities has been interesting, but perhaps not as successful as expected, keen to see how it evolves.

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I wonder if maybe the communities are just still too new for us as we've gotten used to Hive without them, so we're still in our old habits. They also need to be active enough to really work. The natural medicine one seems to be working well. You get the content you expect and the account and curating efforts being focused there are a draw for content creators. If no-one's checking the community, then it's probably just going to flop.

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Yeah, I guess its still new; Some I would have thought done better just don't have numbers or people posting, almost abandoned - glad Natural medicines is working though :)

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I think that if people believe the rewards are there, then they'll post in the community. Otherwise they gravitate to ones where they hope they'll get a better reward, like ocd or gems. That's why acidyo has been encouraging people to post in the community which fits the content and is moving the rewarding away from the ocd community. I guess they'll only work if we use them properly. Read, interact and vote in the ones that hold our interest and encourage content producers to use them.

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