As I promised in the last HivePosh Weekly, I am sharing the reward amount for the recent mind-blowing Hive link share by @davideownzall:

A lovely sum, isn't it?! 🤠🥂

To achieve this, you need to get 1000++ Reddit upvotes for your Hive link share, just like @davideownzall did with record 5,500 upvotes and 200.000 views:

Easy to say, hard to do. 😀 But this is how I see the path to such a result:

• Find a large subreddit (better 500K+) that is
• friendly to blog links and
• has an audience focused on reading (Most subs want easy-to-consume content, for example, a set of images uploaded directly to Reddit; blog links don't attract much attention there.)

Domain search on Reddit

The best way to find such subs is to choose any popular blogging platform and search for its most upvoted links on Reddit (for the past year, for example). This way for blogspot.com as an example:

reddit.com/domain/blogspot.com/top/?sort=top&t=year

Recently, I did this work and posted the conclusions in I Analyzed the Best Link Shares of Medium, Blogspot, and Wordpress... ...HivePosh Weekly #7. @davideownzall took my research seriously and tried some subs from the list. Then, I guess, he spotted hot news about a new law in New York, and checked if someone had already posted about it on r/vegan; having found nobody had, he compiled a post specially for sharing on Reddit and won HivePosh jackpot... (Did I miss something, @davideownzall?) Amazing purposefulness! And proof that sometimes it's better to write a post for sharing instead of searching on Hive for one.

You can have the domain search for peakd.com too to learn lessons:

reddit.com/domain/peakd.com/top/?sort=top&t=year

You'll see that someone got 16.000 upvotes on r/todayilearned for a peakd link. 😀 This share. Though @theworldaroundme tried 2 or 3 times, and, as I know, they deleted her shares. A strict sub. Pay attention to rules of "No recent sources" and especially "Inaccurate/unverifiable/not supported by source".

Keep in mind there might be irrelevant results in the domain search, for example,

• some subreddits can be affiliated with some accounts on medium.com or elsewhere,
• some popular link shares are actually links leading not to posts but to images alone;
• besides, Reddit is full of bots and some upvote counts can be heavily manipulated for commercial or political reasons,
• and I guess some subreddits can post only paid blog links (potentially but I doubt it's an often practice).

Therefore, it is worth taking a critical look at the results of such a search.

Topics

The critics of the modern world or negative predictions of the future are loved by blog-link-friendly long-read-friendly subreddits (I mentioned some in Hiveposh Weekly #7). Reddit's audience is 49% American and widely supports the US Democratic Party. So choose proper topics to whine about 😄, otherwise, they'll downvote or even remove your link.

What else? Back to the domain search on Reddit. Use the "past 24 hours" or "past week" filter to search for hot topics:

A bonus

This is still a hot topic, and reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial 🗣173K might support good posts that taste promotional to them - if you don't know, they hope to become a new Twitter. How strict the sub is, I have no idea.

By the way, Bluesky upvotes newbies well, as I see: https://x-rain-here.bsky.social

No guarantee they'll bite a good portion of Twitter/X... we'll see. I personally feel there is a consensus against Twitter, wider that the traditional dichotomy "Democrats vs. Republicans", wider than even political reasoning. Twitter is no longer enjoyable, that's the most important thing. Imo. I don't mean it will die but its competitors will grow stronger. For example, many subreddits banned links from Twitter after Musk's famous gesture.

New Hive-Friendly Subreddits

I keep looking at what new subreddits HivePosh users have discovered, to continue compiling a list of Hive-friendly subreddits. This week, these were:

www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption 🗣955K @theworldaroundme
www.reddit.com/r/architecture 🗣1.9M @bighungrypanda
www.reddit.com/r/Slovenia 🗣94K @dkkfrodo
www.reddit.com/r/Photobooks 🗣6.3K @cryptoreforma
www.reddit.com/r/casualEurope 🗣27K @davideownzall
www.reddit.com/r/natureisbeautiful 🗣116K @blkchn
www.reddit.com/r/ViceCity 🗣11K @paultactico2
www.reddit.com/r/DeutschePhotovoltaik 🗣6.4K @blkchn

New HivePosh users

This week'a new users are @abracadab, @fredaig, @nozem01, @ayrtonsennafan, @undairito, @no-advice, @pavelsku. Welcome, people! Ask me anything about HivePosh and Reddit and read the 8 Dos and Don'ts to begin smoothly. Also consider entering the HivePosh contest, to get a chance of winning prizes.

I hope this has been helpful. Feel free asking questions and share your experiences in the comments below. Cheers!

The drawings were generated with PeakD AI: https://peakd.com/ai