Not user friendly

Hive can be a very confusing place. I have even seen veteran users or those returning feel like they are lost sometimes.

It more or less requires people to band together and work with each other to discover a majority of what this place has to offer. That is why communities have always been an important aspect of the ecosystem. It’s quite time-intensive for a single person to onboard someone. A community on the other hand tends to make that easier.

If you don’t already know a helpful website for people trying to better understand the ecosystem and join is called Hiveonboard.

There are also communities out there set up to help new people. I have not been in any of them for quite some time so I’m not sure what there is today of those kinds of communities. Asking in a larger discord community can often result in finding those places if you still find yourself or someone you know struggling.

it gets extremely confusing were things you post are going

I do believe over time more and more dapps will be going the custom json route. Project Blank (being worked on by Leo and I don’t think it has an official name yet) for instance is going to be a Twitter alternative that is working on json to hold microform content in.

I also would not be shocked if we see front ends to add in better filter systems one day so if there is a Dapp you don’t want to see it won’t show up in your feed.

It is currently an area that needs a lot of work. For a while, after the fork, many people who just used a single dapp had no idea they had switched over to posting a new blockchain called Hive. Many times people are so busy developing and trying to create a future that they don’t take a moment to communicate with their users what is going on.

Signing into apps

When it comes to Keychain we often make the comparison to ETH’s MetaMask. If users understand that then Keychain is not that big of a step to take.

Also if you take a look at https://leofinance.io/ they are working on trying to solve a lot of issues. They even permit people to create an account by signing up with a Twitter account.

Drama

We are no strangers to the drama that is for sure. For the most part, many are far more reasonable than what meets the eye. You just don’t see it on the surface when all you see are flags. You should not worry about getting on any kind of blacklist just for remaining respectful and constructive.

Quite a small amount of people are bearing large amounts of the weight of the ecosystem. There are just not enough community leaders, developers, and those willing to help out around often for free or very little compensation. So you often see very overworked and underappreciated people who have not had much sleep take things to an 11 quickly as they just don’t have the time to individually deal with 50 things all at once with any reasonable amount of time.

What happened on Steem should have been a bigger thing for all of the crypto to have stepped in or spoken out against it.

Major exchanges either were blackmailed or tricked or colluded with an individual to stake user’s funds on exchanges and take over a blockchain. Once they gained control they stole $5 million at the time worth out of the accounts of their top political rivals as a way to push them for speaking up. Then there was the mass censorship of posts getting blacklisted and hidden. Along with attempts of getting people banned on other platforms for speaking up about it.

The whole thing sucked. Many of us spent years building our home there. Many will never forgive and thus why some only post on Hive or take things even further.

Dev Power

Well, Hive did take almost all of the developers when we forked to here. Many developers believe in freedom of speech and decentralization. Add in the low cost to do business or run a node on Hive it creates quite the ecosystem where developers can spend on developing and not transaction fees eating up their bottom line.

The Community

I’m glad you found some communities to join. There is an almost endless sea of them out there. Some are quite massive and others just a couple of people. In my early years, I use to hang out in some of the bigger Discord communities and such. That is often where the most can be learned and you start to see the bigger picture.

Convert all my crypto holdings

While I love Hive I would never recommend anyone regardless of what investment it was to be all in on just one thing. Sometimes it’s good to get away from Hive. Some people have gone all-in on Hive as they are willing to risk everything to build a future they want to be a part of.

I’d rather see people involved in a couple of different things. Once you get used to Hive many rarely want to leave the comfort and yes ease of use (once you learn the ropes) this place has to offer. There is however a lot out there to learn and even bring back to our ecosystem.

So if I were to go all-in on Hive and somehow catch their ire

There are some powerful tools on Hive to counter things. Not only can you make your community you can even make your coin and have posts in that community earn that coin. Hive is not always the highest valued coin within the ecosystem and I’m sure many more coins will be created that will surpass it at least in price but maybe not market cap.

Since it's a blockchain all that information is still on the blockchain and there are many ways for a person to still use the blockchain. Earning Hive here is the least valuable thing to acquire in my opinion. Connections, friendships, and knowledge surpass getting onto trending and any post payout someone could ever get.