If you have been flying drones, posting aerial photography or simply enjoying the view from a few dozen metres higher than most of us normally see the world, there is a good chance you already know the old drone community on Hive.
It has been around since 2022, originally created and kept alive by 
There is a small change now, though, and because community names and Hive IDs have a habit of making simple things sound more complicated than they actually are, I probably need to explain this properly.
The old community has been renamed to KDrone and is now archive-only. That name is deliberately being used for the archived community, which made it possible for the active community to continue under the much simpler and rather obvious name Drone, with community ID 
So, in short: KDrone is the archive of the old community, Drone is where everything continues from now on.
Same subject, basically the same rules and the same idea behind it, just a new active home and someone who has the time to look after it.
And before going any further, I really want to thank
So… thank you,
The obvious answer is drone photography, of course, but I don’t want to make the community unnecessarily narrow. If it flies, drives, crashes, gets repaired after crashing, or involves somebody staring at settings for half an hour wondering why something that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly refuses to cooperate today, there is probably a place for it here.
That includes:
And beginners are absolutely welcome too.
You don’t need a flying cinema camera with enough accessories to require its own mortgage. A small Mini launched from your phone, combined with a decent eye for composition, can produce far more interesting photographs than an expensive drone pointed at absolutely nothing. Photography remains photography, even when the camera happens to have propellers attached to it.
A few rules, because we still need those
The rules remain short, and they are essentially the same ones the old community had:
There is one thing I do want to add explicitly: fly legally.
Drone regulations differ from country to country, sometimes considerably, and ultimately every pilot is responsible for knowing the rules where they fly. No photograph, however spectacular it might look on Hive afterwards, is worth getting yourself into trouble for.
A community only becomes useful when somebody actually does something with it, so there are already a few things in place from day one.
Posts that fit the community will receive upvotes from the community account, which currently has 2,500 HP behind it, and I hope to grow it.
No, that is not going to finance your next DJI purchase, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But it is real support, it is there from the start, and hopefully it can grow together with the community.
I will also publish a weekly roundup highlighting some of the best contributions from that week. The authors whose posts are featured will be added as beneficiaries of the roundup post, which means part of the rewards from that post automatically goes back to them.
There is nothing special you need to enter, register for or sacrifice to the blockchain gods. Post good and relevant content in the community and you can be selected.
And once there are enough active members to make it worthwhile, contests will follow as well. Running contests when three people are watching is technically possible, of course, but it is also a little like organising a festival in your garden and calling the neighbours the headline act. Let’s first get some people together.
One important detail when posting
If you want your post to appear in Drone, you need to post into the community itself.
On PeakD, Ecency or whichever Hive frontend you prefer, select Drone in the community selector. That makes hive-193236 the first tag of your post and actually publishes it inside the community.
Simply adding #drone somewhere in your tags is not the same thing.
A post using only the #drone tag does not automatically appear inside the Drone community and therefore cannot be included in the community rewards, weekly selections or future contests.
It is a tiny difference technically, but quite an important one in practice.
And there is one last thing for everyone who was already following the old community: your subscription does not carry over automatically.
Because Drone is a new community, you will need to subscribe again. It takes one click, costs absolutely nothing, and right now it is probably the easiest thing you can do to help give the community a bit of momentum again.
Then post your next aerial photograph there, tell the drone pilots you know on Hive that the community has moved, and if you are one of those people who subscribed but keeps posting all their drone photography somewhere else anyway… well, next time just select Drone before pressing publish.
Because ultimately that is the difference between having another community ID sitting somewhere on the blockchain and having an actual community.
See you at altitude.
