My Hive account has the same join year I had on Steemit when I joined. Posts from Steemit automatically went to Hive. From late 2019 into early 2020, I knew Hive existed. I think December is when I joined Hive. Since hive didn't exist yet in 2017. So I'm going with the date I realized it existed.
I joined this blogging platform due to unemployment. I've blogged about my struggles to find a suitable job due to autism at the time. Later on, I started having chronic issues that added to the struggle.
Long story short, I found Hive when a lot of accounts announced that they left Steemit for hive after the Sun take over. For those that don't know, steemit got a new CEO and a lot of people didn't like the new one.
I found these sites as a way to expand. I wasn't too thrilled with how YouTube ran things, I didn't want to pack my bags for a platform that I wasn't sure would be successful. It's a rule of thumb for me. A YouTube competitor called Vid.me popped up in 2016, they shut down a year later.
Hive could die down, it could grow. The future is unknown.
I've seen many clones of these sites. Weku, Sery, Golos etc
Hive/Steemit are the only ones that held out. Blurt seems to be the only one that survived.
I found out about Steemit when I was on a platform called Ong. social, it was like Facebook back in the early 2010s. YouTube changed its monetization rules. I saw a video from a guy talking about alternatives. I wanted to check out Steemit so I made an account and got approved in 24 hrs before they changed it to 2 weeks due to spam accounts. That's how I learned about Steemit. The hard part is knowing what content will engage people. You want to click on what grabs your attention. That's where your votes come in, that tells the creator what you like.
It took a minute to learn how to exchange my credits for whatever crypto makes me happy. These sites were into cryptocurrency as well. I also explained to my mom these sites.
When Coinbase notified me I had to report to the IRS, that one was hard to explain to her.
I even told a friend I went to school with when she asked me about my job. I explained I post on YouTube and embed the link. I also write excerpts from my blog and links where people can find the article.
These sites are a way to expand your content creation. I believe in expanding your options, not trading them.
It's hard growing as a gaming blog/variety blog. Then again, maybe how your posts will do is like a lottery.
Dang, a half a decade. Steemit started to die around my 5th year on there, lets hope hive stays strong.
