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Great post! 

Yeah, I don't usually upvote selfies and videos. edit (that is why I didn't upvote your selfie above lol)

We need more personal/opinionated/creative type of blogs/posts.  I hope that some of those really good bloggers I follow come back and post again. I mean, we don't need everyone.

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Once upon a time there was (and still is) a certain music distribution site that I shilled to a friend of mine who answered like this: "Oh that site, it's actually a bit like Youtube but for music. There's enough shit that you can eventually find pearls in it."

So in my opinion, the more people use $Hive, the easier it is to find good material on it. You don't have to follow shit you don't like, nor do you have to upvote any of it if you don't want to.

The reality is, the more people we get, the closer we get to the critical mass of adoption. Yes there will be more shit content, but it is inevitable with any platform. And it doesn't mean the quality content suddenly disappears. There will be more of that too.

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Interesting take on Hive, can't say I disagree.

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 _If you are just posting in the hope of being liked and rewarded you will be endlessly disappointed_

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>I can’t be arsed watching videos, so I don’t – I also don’t usually comment or vote on them, and if people keep posting videos I unfollow them. My usual cut off point for watching the very occasional videos I can be bothered to look at is five minutes, but most don’t make it past 30 seconds. And almost every post that is just a link to a video is another shitpost.

I agree with that sentiment for the most part. Far too many videos (blog posts, too) are too long because the long-form format is overvalued here. I hate word salad - spoken or written - because the world is full of information and I don't have to time to waste on filler content.

That said, there is a way to get around an author speaking too slowly or in circles. Just jack up the playback speed until you're no longer bored out of your skull. I love the videos of taskmaster4450 but he speaks too slowly for me, which is why I always listen to him at 1.5x or 2x. Even louisthomas feels too slow at times despite being clearly faster, which is why I keep alternating between 1.15x and 1.25x with his videos.

When it comes to the necessity of growth, I don't agree with you. The price of HIVE is 95% to 99.9% speculative at the moment. That's not healthy. It makes the price unstable motivating users to keep their coins liquid rather than staked weakening network security and causing all manner of other volatility related problems. Also, it's probably not sustainable in the long run. But the good news are the blogging use case does not have to grow for the use of the chain to grow. Hive can store text in JSON format making it a good option for apps that use NFTs.

I agree with almost everything you said.
Except for the part about videos.
Now I know exactly what you mean, and as I scroll through videos trying to find quality content... Its tough...
But as for me, I'm an aspiring filmmaker, and really look forward to sharing my content on HIVE.
The videos I make are not one-shot-unedited-45min-talking heads, they're painstakingly filmed and edited, and are an expression of my art and myself. (maybe not a good one, but I do pour my heart and soul into it.)
So I'm just curious as for your honest opinion, I imagine your less of a visual medium kinda person, and so I understand that videos in general are not for you, but do you think Hive is a place for me to post my videos? 

How else could I take credit for someone else's creation without spamming tho lol

3 am here. This is easily one of the best post I read this week. You made me laugh with the truth.

I am with you on EVERYTHING:

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I have been debating this and thinking of new ways which (unfortunately) goes unheard.

And the point about video. Spot on. Well, videos on Hive to be specific. I can live with YouTube but I don't find anything particularly interesting yet. No "episodes" or "series" worth looking forward to. I even saw people reading "scripts" as they look away from the camera.

One day we will discuss the issues in detail. The solution - on expressing - is valid although short.

Question is: How best to express? Would love to hear. (You did a fantastic job expressing here)

Now that's a lot of engagement! HIVE posts do that, I don't write them anymore.

I agree about the creative content. There's so very little of it. More often it's food, or useless Actifit and other shit-posts.

Express yourself, bitches! 

Finally someone who exactly shares my opinion about videos and "vlogs" - what a waste of time!
But I don´t agree that we don´t need new users. Due to the inflation of Hive (around 9% this year, isn´t it?) we need to grow. Seems the majority of the current users doesn´t want to increase their stake, otherwise we would not see an overweight in powering down. And when the Hive price goes further down, the rewards get smaller and smaller - less motivation to create good content - a death spiral.
The more users the more chance to get also fresh *good* content (among the many shitposts).