Yea, I kind of ranted a bit, but I think it's the sort of thing that can be adopted by multiple communities.

The shift is more like "HIVE as a project incubator" instead of "HIVE as a facebook / reddit substitute."

It won't work like that for everyone, and I'm not sure how many people will opt to come into HIVE to participate within the project experiment I proposed for my own comic.

But the idea is already in its seed form in Alien Art Community, where Julia and Elgeko have been collaborating and making an income by creating NFTs on Ethereum.

They aren't making bank from HIVE -- Instead, they are using hive as a monetized way to have a community surrounding the work that they primarily monetize elsewhere.

As a result, they have reason to market their work, which has lead to HIVE onboarding possibility in a Cryptovoxels Gallery

I suppose the next level would be combining gallery shows with public outreach and limited time auctions.

This draws attention to the gallery, which increases the income likelihood for the auctions, which draws attention to the Alien Art Community.

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Aggregating money and attention around this might create a source of power that helps onboard artists, because ETH artists who are in the NFT space are onboarding.

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Basically turning the art communities into little project based productivity hubs, brings in more talent, and depending on how those people structure their projects, it could also bring in audiences - cause the artists need audiences to support themselves, and the audiences exist all over the internet.

Same idea for models / photographers / game developers / newsletters / bloggers / self-published novelists / fitness leaders.

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You have a model who does nude figure drawing onchain, you'll get a following for that class.

You have a fitness leader who teaches yoga classes onchain, you'll get a following for that class.

In order to make the project financially viable, they will need to expand into USD and ETH -- but the reward incentives, combined with onchain exclusivity for engagement / participation might be enough to attract audience members onchain as well.

In my specific case -- I use Patreon / Kickstarter / HIVE and ETH NFTs.

The question is -- why would my Patreon / Kickstarter / ETH NFT audiences want to onboard onto HIVE -- what benefit can I offer them, that would make onboarding worth while?

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The final product would look something like:

"Hi, I'm a novelist, and I write 1000 words a day on HIVE for my latest project. Come be an advanced reader, and help provide useful feedback as I work through each chapter of my next novel.

Comments with the highest number of upvotes / highest reward count will be considered for integration into the rough draft."

The published work goes out to Kindle, where hundreds or thousands of readers will find it.

Some percentage of those readers opt in for exclusive "ARC" access, which is "Advanced Reader Copy".

This idea is basically a type of community interactive ARC Club, which functions out of the novelists HIVE blog.

You would just need someone in the Ink Well Community to demonstrate that this method is more financially viable, than whatever it is other people are doing over there. Easiest way because this is how Fans can actually be tipped for engaging with a creator they admire / follow -- and find other creators who they might think are interesting -- or gain 'behind the scenes content' -- or be a part of the creative process. etc.

It would also incentive staking on part of the creator, because of the increased value of upvotes which can be given to supporters who comment / engage within the 'ARC Club'.

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It's a very cool idea. Fundamentally, you just need community leaders who run projects based in HIVE, which rely on target audiences and integrate financial systems outside of HIVE.

And those people need to be like cultural magnets, to help other people who share similar skill sets as they do -- other artists, other writers, etc.

To use the platform in a similar way.

So your onboarding populations are creators who will be using HIVE as a project incubator -- and the 'super in group' audience members who want to engage with those people in a way that is exclusive to HIVE.

Maybe I can work with the HIVE marketing group and come up with some business models for different communities, and then if the mods of those communities think they are interesting, they can riff on them or something, test them out.

I'll do it myself, and help Alien Art do it. I think Onchainart would be into it as well. Midlet would probably run with the idea.

Also Riverflows from Ink Well kind of mentioned an interest in self-publishing.

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You just need a handful of people who are mildly financially successful outside of HIVE with their creative work, who use HIVE as a home base, and then people will adopt similar strategies, I'd guess.

I'll make a post for a handful of groups -- and then just work on Alien Art Hive and my own projects.