The News

Happy Thanksgiving to our colonial friends.

There are signs of some recovery from the latest crypto crash. $HBD got back to the peg pretty quickly. I still wonder why the 'blue site' has any value.

I had been using Hypestat to see how Hive sites are doing. Some of the statistics around countries were a bit suspicious. There is also Similarweb which shoes Venezuela as the biggest country for Peakd. That sounds realistic, but the general site ranking is really low. We need a bit of SEO. It should help if people link in from other places.

There was news that @splinterlands have had to reduce their staff. The low crypto prices will hit a lot of projects that rely on income from usage. Most Hive dapps are not carrying advertising, so they do not have that income.

There will be a Hive meetup in London next month. @tdctunes has a gig in Brick Lane and we can meet at the venue beforehand. This is just providing a place for people to meet and talk with no special events that I know of, but it can still be valuable. I find that in-person conversations can be very informative as well as putting faces to names. Anyone can set up an event like this if they can find a suitable location. Let me know and I will advertise it.

My @proofofbrian bot has informed over 500 people of tag typos. It was just created for fun, but I hope it makes people think about checking their tags. I used the beem Python library to create it.

I have been playing around with Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. I prefer open platforms and a fair few people I followed have moved over. I tried posting a poll on attitudes to cryptocurrency. It seems they are no so into it over there.

Friday Follows

• @mynewlife posted a cool video of Hivefest. You may spot me in it.
• My friend and musical collaborator @daniellemurray has been participating in a music post challenge. If you are wondering what to post about then look out for things like this as using the tags will get you seen by more people.
• @molometer has some tips on recording guitar.
• @epodcaster has been doing the podcast challenge that she originated. The aim is to do one for every day of November.
• @airmatti has done a nice art nouveau style drawing.
• @mikkolyytinen is also an artist with a darker style.

These people get a share of the post rewards.

The End

I did not do a #FollowFriday post last week as I was busy responding to another post that got a load of feedback.

I will be producing a new #BritList next weekend, so let me know of anyone I may have missed. I have found a few more people to add this month.

Hive five!

The man behind:

@tenkminnows: Helping good Hivers level up @proofofbrian: A bot that checks for tag typos #BritList: A monthly list of Hivers in the UK