The Brit List: September 2024

Introduction

I started compiling these lists in December 2020 to continue something Hive account@pennsif used to do as I think it helps bring the community together. Since then I have found lots more people to include. @HiveSQL has been really useful for this. I was using beem to generate this post, but that is not in active development and I found HiveSQL could do it much quicker. I use Python for most things. Some of the post is manual as I like to include some commentary and I will keep tweaking it. I am open to suggestions for improvements. I aim to do a fresh list on the first Saturday of each month.

Logo by @barge

I also rely on the community to let me know of more people to include who may not have obvious account metadata. You can find me in the Hive account@teamuksupport Discord to discuss it or drop me a comment.

The #teamuk tag has been used to show you are in the UK and was earning extra votes from a bot, but that has not been active lately. Using the tag may still help me to find you, but please contact me if you think you should be on the list.

The list will include anyone living in the UK as well as Brits who have moved abroad. Inclusion on this list does not mean I recommend people, but I will remove accounts if they are known to be abusing Hive or are falsely reporting their location. I can also remove anyone who asks me to. If you have lost control of your account through phishing or other means then let me know so that I can update your entry. There is the option to be counted without being tagged on these posts if you want that.

The code to produce this post is on Github. People are welcome to use it for their own regional version. I can help you with that if necessary.

Previous editions

What it means

The numbers above are for those who had posted or commented in the previous month. In the lists below I break each region into three lists:

Active as above.
Just voting. I will guess that a lot of these use automatic votes, e.g. HiveVote. Previously there were some that appear to have been compromised as they vote for known abusers. Those are now excluded until I hear that they have recovered control.
Inactive in the last month, but most have done something since Hive started. We can hope to bring them back.

I want to count people rather than accounts as some have several. I can include those in brackets if you want. Let me know if you want me to update your listing. You can be as specific as you like about your location. Otherwise I will use what is on your profile or what I am told or can deduce from your posts.

Other Countries

I have produced similar lists for the following countries. Active numbers are from the last time I ran them. These have used simpler queries than what I use for the UK, so they are likely to miss people. What it needs is for local communities to take up this work. The data and scripts are all on my Github for anyone to make use of. I can do other lists on demand.

Australia. 66 active.
Ghana. 28 active.
Germany. 103 active.
Indonesia. 154 active.
Ireland. 23 active (2022).
Italy, 45 active. Hive account@bencwarmer has done a more comprehensive list.
Netherlands by Hive account@michelmake. 44 active.
Nigeria. 507 active.
Portugal. 25 active.
Romania. 10 active.
Scandinavia. 31 active.
South Africa. 31 active.
Spain. 52 active.
Turkey. 12 active.
Ukraine (2022).

Commentary

Well the number of active users went down by one this month despite me adding a few people to the list. It looks like some of the smaller accounts are giving up. This seems inevitable when the $HIVE price goes down. Bigger accounts can still earn something from curation, but then I suspect most of those are not cashing out for now anyway. This is why I keep saying that Hive has to be fun. People will spend hours on the big corporate platforms as they have so much content, a lot of it professionally produced, despite them not paying the average user a cent. I find a lot of fun content on Hive and that keeps me coming back. Amongst the Brits we have Hive account@planetauto who make videos about cars. Hive account@mcsamm is based in the UK and doing great work with boreholes in Ghana. Hive account@slobberchops has his urban exploring posts. He has been trying to get people to come here from FB, but it is not so easy. We need more people coming here to 'consume' content as not all of us will be great creators. Even the consumers can earn through comments and curation. I have said many times that if musicians bring their fans here then both sides can benefit.

I am finding a few accounts who seem to make a single post linking to their company site and never come back. I have included some on the list, but they may not stay active. I have to wonder if someone is setting up accounts for them to boost their SEO (search engine optimisation). Some I have found, but not included this time are:

Hive account@sianvictoria (Birmingham, UK)
Hive account@fundingguru (Leeds, UK)
Hive account@photoaddictive (Scotland) Has no posts or comments.
Hive account@matthaycox (United Kingdom)

I am just not convinced that they are actual users, but they are free to contact me about this.

I do intend to do lists for other countries. I may do Canada next. I want others to take over maintaining those as local knowledge makes it easier. The big one I have avoided is the USA. I really think that needs a group of people to work through big cities and states. It may have the most Hivers, but the location data is not consistent. If people want to tackle that job then I will help where I can.

I will be at Hivefest next week and will be happy to discuss these projects.