Sometimes we miss the whole concept behind blogging

There are absolutely many angles Hive is lacking behind in terms of being acknowledged as a social media. First of all, I'd love to clarify that this is not a rant, but if I can get the required involvement then my job here is done.

Quick question : who else noticed that topics on feeds were boring yesterday?
maybe I wasn't looking quite well

OK, it is not in my place to judge anyone or any content, but at least I can criticize being that I hold a few tokens in staked form, and this grants me certain influence on the platform since it's runned by the community. A stake makes one a curator once he or uses it, and this has nothing to do with how much or how small tokens he/she holds.

That said, it is alright to see Hive as a news outlet, it is great that I can see artworks flying around, it is absolutely awesome that I can see stories, poems and poetries, but why does it still feel like the actual "fun" isn't there?


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Blogging should be fun, non-topic limiting, insightful or plain, a rant or random talk about one's day and activities, conversational or debate focused, it's supposed to speak of the personality behind the keyboard, but very few of them exist here, everyone one else just copies their patterns in hopes of pulling through.

I personally write stories for the fun of it. I love horror especially, my aim is always to capture my readers mind, leave me tensed, excited and entertained. Writing stories can be boring when the engagement is not there, I don't write books, never publish one and not planning to. I just adopted the act of writing stories because it's like being on an adventure, just how I feel when watching a movie is how I feel when writing stories and this is also how I wish for my readers to feel.

Of course people are entitled to whatever they wish to write about, but honestly, from observations, a huge percentage of posts on Hive are not passion driven, there's no personal vibe to it, it's all about having fingers crossed and hoping to get rewards, sadly. I couldn't possibly spend my day on Hive then go to bed afterwards, come on, if Hive wasn't fun, my day entirely wasn't, because I spent it all on Hive, I chose it to be my social network, a place to be, so if it fails to be fun on certain days, there goes my entire day being funless.

There would be more engagement on Hive if people actually saw most of it as a social media, we basically see ourselves as aliens from around the world, coming together to compete for rewards. On Facebook when a foreigner meets with another, they get to talk and make a lot of noise, sometimes they fight each other, some become friends, share ideas, talk about random shits, this is always the best part, saying things that makes absolutely no sense, but then, it's getting people to laugh because it's stupid. If everyone could come on Hive and get a good laugh often, they'd be a lot more satisfied hivers.

I was once really active on Facebook so it's only easy for me to understand how we'd wake up by 2am just to post a joke and chitchat all night/morning in the comment section. There is absolute fun not getting rest by staying up and running around the socials. Engagement there was a killer because people were often open with their contents, even when it wasn’t really a free speech network. People still got to talk about random stuff, in fact, being smart or knowledgeable was never the case to making friends or winning on being the most engaged. What won the crowd was likely stupidity, lessons were most times derived from the comment section whereas the normal posts were full of shits.

These are what a personal blog should be like. People don't even wanna be taught these days, no one wishes to be motivated but yet we still have a lot of people trying to push it. Why not just talk about how you fell from a horse? I could laugh even if you were lying, it doesn't hurt though, lying was part of life anyway. Quality doesn't necessarily mean having knowledge filled content, it should rather reflect on having an entertained audience.

Do not wish to be like anyone else, be yourself, express yourself, you'll find your rightful audience being original


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Quick question : who else noticed that topics on feeds were boring yesterday?
maybe I wasn't looking quite well

Gosh..... I thought I was the only one 😌

Well, all you have to do is follow people who write the way you love

Your feed is what guarantee what you get...... So, spread your wings dude, and follow more people


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I'm pretty sure my wings are spread, though I have a small following right now, I must often browse through general feed, so I was basically on the entire chain.


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You are basically on the entire chain, yes, but, you will be seeing everything, and it takes time to load all of the posts

Your following feed will make it easier to find interesting contents 😒


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If I keep sticking to my feed, I'll end up missing out on a lot, I mean how else did I find the writers on my feed?


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I have said this once ,curating good post gives vibes to write more ,I have seen my goods post who end up having no curate ,did you notice post like motivation post , relationship ,sport don't usually have upvote,I have notice that ,if you want to have more upvote ,you need to talk about politics,what you think the curator want ,those who write more about other topic, if not upvote it kills


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Most people writing on political topics seek power and influence, so if you seek the same, you've got to jump in as well.


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Hmmmm! Let me not just say anything because if I want to start I think it will seem as if I'm writing a whole novel. Let him that hath ear hear what the spirit sayeth to the church. I rest my case.


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Good to know that more people realize this. That's what I've been commenting, not as a criticism, but to encourage people to loosen up on posts and discard this "molded" and "plastic" version to write with their heart (and brain, of course). I see so much redundant, basic, clichéd, self-help themes and stuff without personality. Of course, no one is forced to compose masterpieces, but I think the more we dedicate ourselves to real writing, the more we can be noticed and rewarded. I feel that authenticity, reality, life experiences are lacking here and we could explore this much more, being a multi-ethnic portal, it is natural that just the fact that each person lives in a different place in the world, any real account of their daily lives can to be transformed into a very interesting text for someone from another continent, it's a matter of knowing how to express yourself and be real.


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Travel posts are the closest I've found that actually reflects on real life experiences, every other don't quite fit in, but I guess as time goes on, people will try to take their mind off this old fucked up model, and place them on the real things.


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Hive is sn immature being. Do you remember 2010 FB? Let it grow, let it sink in, described qualities will pass. Also, getting focused on the rewards is scarcity mindset thing, time will heal it. However I see your point, it's valid IMO.

I really enjoyed reading through you not-rant, great style.

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You are totally on point @malopie.
I think blogging should be fun, educative, interactive and lots more.

It makes people who are involved look up to more posts to learned and catch fun.

Thanks for the briefing, I really learnt alot.


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Well you're right on what you noticed topics where so boring and couldn't find my interest to click and read what the content is all about.
I don't think creating post is all about writing and writing but is about being creative to drag the readers attention.

I get to learn about Clickbait from @wiseagent who is one of the writers I love following up.
By Clickbait he meant creating a topic head that drags attention of the reader to give you a vote and also open to read more about the post even if you said less in the content of the post.

So writers should learn to create post that attract attention and not bore out the reader.
However your choice of writing is cool to get attention on your posts. Is one thing to write and another to get readers attention.

Thank for sharing this concept about posts I hope most of the writers will adopts to this and know the criteria to look out for when writing a post for the general public.


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Thanks for your contribution.

Clickbaits are important, it's kinda like using "key words" that makes search engines like Google to crawl your blog posts easily. It brings traffic to your blog and thereby increases engagement.


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You're welcome, I'm glad you find my contribution to be helpful, However we also have to hope writer try to adopt and learn how to make an interesting post in other not to bore out the reader.


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