Communities in Hive are specialized spaces where users with common interests can share content and engage with each other. Communities make it easier for users to find topics and like-minded people.
Types of Communities
There are several hundreds of communities based on
- geographic regions or languages like Hive Mexico or Hive Bangladesh,
- interests/hobbies like Hive Gaming or Amazing Nature, and
- various topics specifically about Hive like HiveDevs or Hive Learners.
There are dozens of "sub-communities" within the broader topics. E.g. in the area of gaming there are many communities about specific games like Splinterlands or Rising Star Game, but there is not a community hierarchy which would allow to easily find an adequate community. Since every user can create a community, sometimes there are several communities that cover quite the same topic, e.g. Photo Lovers and Photography Lovers.
If a new user wants to find the best community for the topic, he/she is encourages to first search for different communities and compare e.g. the number of subscribers and especially the number of active users.
How do Communities work
Using the popular frontends like PeakD it is very easy to create a new community. When doing so, some details of the new community like title, "about", description, rules and preferred language can be entered (or added/edited later). Technically, every community is an account, so an account creation fee (typically 3 Hive) has to be paid. The 4 key pairs like for any Hive account are generated in the process and should be kept at a secure place.
Roles
- Owner: The Hive account that is determined for the community and where the community wallet is located
In addition, for each community these roles can be defined:
- Admin: The user who created the community is per default admin. He can change the community settings and add other admins and change the roles of other users
- Mods: Can add other users as members and add users on the "muted" list
- Members: Optional (also non-members can post in communities)
- Muted: Posts from these users won´t be shown in the community feed
Rules
Some communities have set rules, others don´t have any rules. Typical rules are to write in a certain language and to post only original content! Please respect the rules of each community!
Links
An overview about all communities in Hive: https://hive.blog/communities