Thought on this platform.

I want to say first when I came into Hive in November, completely new. I found many things about the initial onboard process challenging. My feeling is the biggest problem this service has is technical friction. Its just confusing, like a game with no tutorial level. It is over all very different from the user experience we have all been ingrained to expect over the last decade.... and lets be honest, when was the last time normal people signed up for social media? For me, it had been 8-9 years prior to this year. The learning curve is significant.

PEAKD so far has been my favorite of the bunch.. I found it the most intuitive, like forums I used to use. I would recommend putting the communities list front and center to make it easy to under stand - I want to see top posts right away to be sucked in by the content. I came here for social media, privacy, escape from abuse by algorithms and profit driven social models that drive toxicity. I want to get to that kind of content right away - no intermediate pages. I'd place most of the rest of the stuff out of the way and get straight to the goods.

Some kind of tutorial for signing up on hive would also be amazing. Details on how to do your first posts, signing in, saving your keys etc would be good too. I had never, ever had a keys before, and when I used all my hive to make blog posts people couldn't and then ran out of ability to keep going I got quite irritated. Also nearly lost the keys because I didn't realize they were valuable! I'm so used to always being able to re-access something easily.

Having a post be a finite resource is a really shocking change of pace also- made me very frustrated. My first time I posted blog posts, ran out of hive, and couldn't post for a while. It really took the wind out of my sails!