A lot of people also don't understand the amount of money Facebook, Instagram and Twitter spent on advertising to get users into their platform. 40 cents of every dollar any platform gets in investment these days goes into Facebook and Google. You cannot compare this to them, they have massive budgets to go out and acquire users at any cost.

Yes its complicated to sign up, yes it's not spreading out rewards and all that but this is still a well kept secret on the internet. You can tweet all you want, you can share on Fb all you want but those are isolated parts of the platform for good reasons why want you to spend to get reach and acquire users, that's the name of the game

People post for free on Facebook and IG, getting just little hearts for their validation. Even if they post here and earn one cent, it is one cent more than they will every see for hours spent on Facebook. A small win versus no win = win. It is quite obvious, it is sad that some people lack motivation to pursue posting and engaging. Nothing comes easy for those who do not put out the work.

And…. who on earth has time to read more than two or three long posts each day? Swiping is more modern...

A good start would be seeing far less posts about the platform itself. 

I will try to keep this as succinct as possible. Beyond financial reward, people seek meaningful engagement. This is especially true for those who put a considerable amount of effort into their content. In effect, a simple cost benefits analysis at play, IMO.

When the price goes up they all come back. This is what happened to me in 2017. It is after the bull market that you see who sticks and who doesn't. Right now we should be patient. 

It isn’t as appealing because it takes time to draw a good and engaging audience and most people post complete shit, and even more have verbal diarrhea when they find out they can get paid to post shit.

@iflagtrash thoughts?

Such a great idea. More curators are bloody need to support newbie hivers. It must be good when they are not only got nice welcome at the beginning. Hope everything going well in the future. I still believe this platform still belong to creative works.

> every new person who joins with a zero balance can be assigned one Whale to be their guide.

That may not be scalable, given that we have limited no of whales. But, all of the whales may join a force to reward new users more, may be based on reputation or reward balance ( not withdrawn at all say upto 2k hive). Current Curation teams are not enough to reward every good author, I believe. 

I don't begrudge you rewards, but the fact that some whales are giving you a big vote on every post may be part of the problem, even if you have no say in that. They need to spread their votes wider. The problem is in finding good newbies to upvote. I know some of the curation projects work on that with people seeking out good content to send votes to.

I have my own little project that supports a set of small accounts.

New users do have to put in some work. They should be commenting, joining communities and doing challenges/contests to get noticed. That is what I did from the start. We do need tutorials that are easy to find. A new user should be sent straight to a tutorial with tips to get them started.

Retaining users is a major issue for Hive and we need the community to work on improving it.

FB: Share my life (and it's not mandatory) and/or connect with the humans of the network (achievable by default)

IG: Share my media (and it's not mandatory) and/or connect with the humans of the network (achievable with little effort)

TW: Share my thoughts (and it's not mandatory) and/or connect with the humans of the network (achievable with little effort)

> hmmm, there's a pattern there, I think?


HIVE: Share my stories (and it's mandatory if you want reward. And if you want that reward to be substantial, you better bring money) 
Connect with the humans of the network? (very difficult since no basic chat exists, no decent mobile experience, places like discord are where the actual social exists, and it's very fragmented).


> I honestly believe this place is broken, because people (who are winning no matter what) want it to remain broken. Because to them.. it's the perfect system.

Not sure if a sponsorship program would work for the reasons mentioned here. But curation groups help a lot. One problem I think is that *most* people tend to not want to put a lot of work into their posts, and that posts wirh one picture sometimes tend to be seen as low effort But we can turn it around too: instead of making it all about posting, newcomers should know that curating is just as good. The problem: you need about 500 Hive to get going... so there might be another hurdle that isn't too easy to solve

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Sponsorship program is a really good idea. 

Projects like @Curie are doing a great job at rewarding new authors who post valuable content. 

A structure with a lot of employees who work to find valuable content and then the authors of chosen posts get rewarded by whale with a small portion going to the curator may work well.

And when it comes to other social media platforms, the algorithms are what makes people come back (addictive) and also likes and comments are freely thrown around so that could be another reason.

I have brought more than 10 people to the site. They all no longer use this excellent resource. But I am especially sorry for the talented people who can be very helpful for the site. A good friend of mine, a talented artist, did not want to publish here. Nobody noticed his work here. Your idea of supporting new users, more experienced people, is really worth considering. I liked your post. Personally, I won't post yet, I will be raising my Linkedin and Twitter accounts. I want to put things in order there. I wish you success. Many thanks.

Please excuse me for my english. Thanks you