My Analysis of Hive Versus Steemit after 4 Years of being on Steemit

My 4th Year Anniversary on "Steemit"

So the other day I posted an article and I received a badge on my HIVE post congratulating me for 4 years being on this HIVE platform. Which yes, is true, my Steemit account which became a HIVE account is now 4 years old. I have had a great time with both platforms, and I look forward to many more years of posting content on HIVE. However, that all being said I still have a Steemit account. So as a content creator with limited time, which platform should I be investing my time in?

The Homepage Comparison

Being a content creator with a large audience on a censored and controlled platform like YouTube, one of the reasons we use Steemit or Hive is to bring our audience over. To bring them over, ease of sign up is key, and well the homepage for the site is also very important.

So what does the HIVE Homepage and what does the Steemit Homepage look like for my mainly English speaking audience that would be seeing these platforms for the first time?

Hive Homepage:

Steemit Homepage:

Anyone can clearly see from the above that Hive for an English speaking audience, is going to be far more attractive and interesting. For one, almost all of the articles that trend now on steemit are written in Chinese or Japanese I think. I don't even know or care. None of them look interesting at all.

Also the top articles and have been so for weeks are always these 100 days and now it's 1000 days on steemit articles. Look I have been on this platform for 4 years now, why do I care about someone's 100 day experience? I don't. The homepage of Steemit is absolute garbage pile now.

Now looking at Hive's homepage, I see articles that are at the top of the homepage because they actually look interesting and they also happen to be in a language my audience will read. I think other languages are beautiful, but my audience doesn't speak them nor do I.

So the straight comparison it is obvious Hive has better content on it's homepage that will attract more users to join than Steemit.

Payouts for Creators?

Same Content on two blockchains, which blockchain is more financially rewarding to be posting on?

Hive Earnings

Steemit Earnings:

So as you can clearly see, for posting the EXACT SAME CONTENT, I am earning about .014 cents per post on Steemit and about $4 dollars per post on Hive. That is 28 times more lucrative. So I will have to make 28 posts on Steemit to earn what I make in 1 post on Hive. This does not look good for Steemit as well, if you tell content creators that after 4 years of promoting a platform and bringing thousands of people on board that your posts will be making a mere .14 cents for post, they will NEVER EVER use your platform.

Steemit is basically toast, I don't see how they can turn this thing around, and they are not doing anything to fix the issues. The whales and dolphins over there are upvoting garbage content no one is going to read.

Conclusion

The payouts and the content on Hive are better. The Hive Platform will over time continue to grow and develop a larger user base and bring in creators. Steemit will become some platform only used in Asia, and will slowly as it is doing fade out. I am thinking of cashing out every penny of STEEM I have left and just focusing on HIVE. Hive seems to be way better already than Steemit ever was.