The Future of Social Media on Hive

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Hive has long been touted as a Web3 social media platform that offers fast, free and scalable transactions.

These things are all true but the social media aspect of Hive has been lacking... the social part.

Long-form content is great and it will always have a place on Hive. That being said, we believe that long-form on Hive needed both a major revamp alongside the idea that long-form could not be the only type of content on Hive... IF we want Hive to be an actual social platform.


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Hive has lacked the social aspect for a long-time. Yes, you could comment and reply to comments underneath long-form posts but other than that, we have used Discord as a means of real-time communication, engagement and relationship-building forever.

Why haven't we moved these activities on-chain? Why are we not having conversations and interacting with each other directly on the Hive blockchain?

At LEO, we believe so firmly in both the technological and community attributes of Hive. Hive is such a unique ecosystem and it has so much to offer the world.

It's like a huge water pipe that offers so much potential waterflow... but nobody has built the right tools to allow the water to flow efficiently and effectively through the pipe.

Instead, Hive remains silo'd into communities that live primarily on Discord and then create long-form and interact in a non-real-time manner.

Enter Threads... They have completely changed this. You can now have real-time conversations on Hive. Directly on the blockchain.

We recently deployed over 100 updates to the UI throughout the course of July. If you are a Hiver and haven't used the UI in July... I highly recommend coming back and giving it a shot.

We are literally deploying updates on a daily basis. A mix of bug fixes and new features.

Project Blank's UI launched on May 1st and since then, the UI has gotten so many revamps and new feature adds. It's unrecognizable to the version we launched with as we emerged into Open Beta from the Alpha stage.

Real-Time Social Media

We just launched Real-Time Notifications and Real-Time Threads. These two updates bring a sense of instananeous engagement to the UI. What does this mean?

It means that you can open the https://leofinance.io UI and reply to threads / create threads. When other Hivers reply to you, you'll literally get instant notification pop-ups that you can click and reply to them back.

You can have real-time conversations with Hivers... all on-chain.

You can:

  1. Build relationships
  2. Build engagement
  3. Drive people to your long-form posts to upvote & reply to you
  4. Earn LEO and HIVE on your threads

and most importantly... do it all on the Hive blockchain!

Bringing the Social to Social Media

We have brought the social to social media on Hive. Before Threads, there was literally no means of real-time engagement and communication directly on the Hive blockchain.

Now, you can thread and build relationships here. You can also get real-time, high quality news information with our News2Threads protocol that brings real-time news and posts it on-chain from media outlets.

Crypto news. Business news. Fintech news. Political news. Sports news.

It's all getting indexed on the Hive blockchain.

Resource Credits and the Future of Hive

We're continuing to build out the UI and add more features. In the next few days, Communities on Hive will get their own threads feeds that they can moderate and curate.

This is going to be a breakthrough for ANY COMMUNITY on the Hive blockchain.

You will finally be able to ditch your Discord General chat as the primary means of real-time engagement and move a lot of that activity onto the Hive blockchain.

REAL ENGAGEMENT is long overdue on Hive. Resource Credits are the future value of the HIVE token and we believe that Threads will create one of the most astronomical demands for RCs as compared to any other Hive project out there.

Why?

Engagement costs something. You need RCs to post, thread, upvote and be active on https://leofinance.io.

LeoFinance is busy building the future of social media on Web3 thanks to Hive as the backend layer. We are also busy building up a MASSIVE pool of Resource Credits for the future millions of users we aim to onboard to the Hive ecosystem.

Will you help us?
Will you engage on the Hive blockchain?
Do you believe Hive is worth building?
Do you believe we can onboard new Hivers?

We see so many Hivers that are not active on Threads. How is that possible? We're not quite sure. Maybe they got turned off from the experience in the early days of the UI because of bugs.

Those bugs have been fixed.

Maybe they don't know that Threads are not top-level posts. They are comments on-chain.

The issue of "posting too much" and hurting your autovote trails has been addressed.

Why are you not on Threads?

We're waiting for you, Hiver.

About LeoFinance

LeoFinance is a blockchain-based Web3 community that builds innovative applications on the Hive, BSC, ETH and Polygon blockchains. Our flagship application: LeoFinance.io allows users and creators to engage & share micro and long-form content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.

Our mission is to democratize financial knowledge and access with Web3.

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looking good o.o already on threads. i dont mind delegating RC either. lets goo

Let's keep building

yes sir

I would not put the Hive on a par with what is called a social network, it will always be a little isolated and that's fine :)
!CTP

Steem/Hive was literally designed from day one to be a social network, so that's an interesting opinion lol

Finally a real Discord on-chain, thanks #Threads team

I will try it right now

Seriously people wtf are you waiting for? A sign?

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Having trouble on Android. This happens

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yeah, it's a known issue which (hopefully) Leoteam are making a priority. Best to use #feedback tag to report tto the team though (when it's not a known issue or to highlighhighlight need for priority)

Thanks for the heads up untitled.gif

The global news feed aspect is critical for the social media aspect. We now have that can mirror and even out do twitter.
#hive #posh #leofinance #threads

Will you help us? Will you engage on the Hive blockchain? Do you believe Hive is worth building? Do you believe we can onboard new Hivers?

We see so many Hivers that are not active on Threads

Hive is what building. Engagement is the main point. Although am not active now because if circumstances beyond my control. I know how important it is to do so

Threads showing what the future of social media on Hive should look like.

Monetised content that gives back to the community by using that revenue to generate real demand for the reward token.

Great work, team.

i was never a big short written content guy, i have twitter for 13 years and i started using it when steem/hive happened. 99% of my tweets are about hive, and i don't want to write threads about hive on hive, so that is reflecting my threads usage.

You could however (if you choose) write the thread then with 2 clicks share it to Twitter - this has many benefits for HHive/Leo (although #feedback the Tweet option no longer appears from the 3 dot menu sincesince latest update - doh!)

The future, the now, is brighter for Hive/Leo than it ever has been. Every day, every week, every month, every year, I get more excited about this blockchain. We are the future of Social Media and of Crypto. You doubt that? Come back in 5 years and see what you missed.

If more people used Threads like they use Twitter it would be massive. Of course it's a smaller audience, but it has some other benefits. It's great to see the constant improvements.

honestly before threads there was no real engagement on hive, some never thought is important to engage but now on threads we have many friends we can engage with thereby building our audience and relationship.
Thank you #leofinance

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The future solely depends on Web 0.3 blockchain, actually I've been a witness on the #threads and what I've seen so far is satisfactory, sure more development is on progress

I'll tryna engage with my best ability

Thank you for your update @leofinance. I'm sorry I haven't been doing enough on threads. I will try to do more. I'm having personal problems that get in my way. I'm working on those and hope to get them over with in the next few months. I will try to work more on threads. Thanks again for your update. Barb 🤩 👍 !BBH !CTP #ctp

#Threads is becoming more lovely. I used to be there everyday, either making my own threads of commenting on others #threads. We are really pushing Leofinance to the top. Thanks to my friends here who are equally supporting.

I have attempted to used threads in the past but ended up making a post instead by accident. Has this been made

interactions or conversations in real time is the way first blog then thread we are close to that future while I will use thread

Social media without social people is worthless. I got the idea. Thread is the way forward. Discord is good but it's best to Practice socialism on our web3 social media platform which is threads. Thanks for the update and encouragement.

Threads indeed playing a great role in case of engaging with others. It's allowing us to share every little thoughts and question in our mind. It's true that many authors still not using Leothreads but it just a matter of time they will be active in threads also. I strongly believe that. Besides Leothreads will bring more new users because writing long-format post is difficult for many people but threads allow user to share whatever they want and there is no restrictions.
It's true that some more improvement is still needed but I already started to get a positive vibes from earlier. The number of Hive user is going to increase multiple X within 2/3 years. Remember my word.

Yeah, publicity is the best way to expose Hive to the world, that goes a very long way to support the recent zealy marketing campaign project, it's the right thing to do as we are doing right now, thank you @leofinance.