Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!
After many long months and just out of curiosity, I visited the trending page on Steemit today to see what is happening there. Of course I had no illusions but what I found out after just a short scroll was quite shocking for me.
First, about 90% of the posts featured on the trending page are written in Korean and Chinese. Sorry, rest of the world! :D
Second, many of the posts actually look like this:
Yep. A post of literally just a few words (I guess) with a $400 payout. To be fair, I should add that some of the posts are a bit longer, consisting of 2 or even 3 (:D) paragraphs but the payouts of them all are in the 3 figure range...
As I said, I had no illusions about how things are on the old chain but honestly, I was not expecting this... I mean if you look at the trending page of Hive, you will find everything there - from top notch travel reports, thorough game reviews, extraordinary photo collections, excellent free writes on all kinds of topics, inspiring charity initiatives, valuable crypto posts, great artsy stuff, epic intros of newbies etc. etc. etc.
The trending page is the first thing that people from the outside world get to see and if you compare ours and that of Steem, there is no way someone could pick the latter to sign up for. The quality of what is created on our chain and over there is absolutely beyond comparison.
I don´t know who is still buying Steem to keep the price so inappropriately high (I have my tip though, Justin) but it obviously is unsustainable and must be only a matter of time before Hive beats Steem on every single level possible, including the price and the market cap. Cannot wait for it ;)
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