Some of the users on Hive have been sharing the latest stats from Coingecko about the most popular decentralized social media in 2023 and to my surprise Hive.blog is not at the position where I believe it had to.
To my surprise, Steemit is on the second position in respect of the Average Monthly Unique Visitors, January - April 2023 which has more than 14 times extra visitors compared to Hive.blog.
I mean frankly, I didn't expect Steemit to have that much of visitors. But the stats shared from Coingecko tells a different story for me. And this is probably multiple other Hive users also haven't expected as well.
Now, that we find ourselves haven't been able to compete with Steemit and other platforms no the list in respect of the amount of visitors, we really need to think seriously now what Hive lacks?
If you think that Hive.blog is underestimated and it's because the platform needs a good hand marketing and promotion, would you pay attention to and look if Steemit is doing that? I don't think there might be enough people on Steemit marketing it. On the other hand, I believe Hive might have more people promoting the platform on platforms like Twitter.
Now, I am not saying that marketing is not an important thing. It is an important thing but we need to think what is the real underlying problem that we ain't getting much visitors.
Is it because Hive has more strict rules compared to Steemit? By strict rules, I mean what some of the whales think what should be downvoted and what not, what they want to see and what not.
Steemit is shown as an alternative to Reddit while Hive.blog is shown as an alternative to Medium. It's surprising for me to see Steemit has been shown as Reddit alternative. I don't know if its probably because of the Steemit community embracing Reddit type engagement on the platform.
Now, that we had these strict rules on Hive.blog, that Hive.blog shouldn't have short form content, I don't know if I should say IMPOSED by some of the whales, that is why it's compared to Medium.
And probably the problem lies here. Most of the people don't seem to have now much time to write long contents. Most people like to share thoughts in quick manner and its like an icing on the cake you are get rewarded for it.
Now, I am not saying that we don't have good content creators. Hive does have good content creators but to me they are small in numbers. For that reason, to have good content creators, you need to do a good hand marketing plus you have to reward them what their content deserve.
I have to appreciate the efforts being put behind #LeoThreads, encouraging microblogging on Hive. LeoThreads still needs a lot of work to compete with Twitter or other microblogging platforms but still we have to appreciate the efforts.
I don't if I am right or wrong in my views and thoughts, but yeah, this is what I think and would be interesting to see what other people think about this.
What are your thoughts?
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