The News

Things never stand still with Hive, but this week brought a couple of interesting developments.

First we had @leofinance introducing subscriptions. You can pay a monthly fee to access extra content from people who set it up (premium users only). As I understand it they will encrypt posts and your subscription will decrypt them. That is an extra incentive for those who think their content has real value and it could keep earning for them in the long term. Someone did speculate that people could copy the cleartext and re-post it. Khal says they will go after anyone who does that, but Hive remains the Wild West and anything goes.

The other big news was @peakd adding Snaps as their version of microblogging. It uses the same basis as others with posts being comments on a main one each day. I do prefer peakd as my main desktop Hive and this implementation already seems pretty good. It works smoothly and you can see just the Snaps from people you follow. The Threads version of that never worked for me. It is evolving daily. They already let you see the microblogs from the other dapps and just added a button to combine those into one feed. That is what I wanted to see. The Hive community is too small to be split up like that. @ecency Decks offers something similar and I think there were some issues about giving access to posts from other dapps.

I really think we need such key features to operate across all the dapps. Things like polls should function regardless of which you use. The same with the chat that is in peakd and some other dapps. I tend to use the Ecency app on my phone and would like to see all microblogs on that, not just Waves. Someone said that the dapps want to keep their users loyal, but Hive is bigger than them. They can differentiate on other things, e.g. smart filtering, writing tools and follower management.

I will include my usual price chart. Things are still fluctuating, but $HIVE is maintaining a lead over 'the legacy crapcoin'.

Friday Follows

• You should follow @asgarth to see his Snaps about the new developments.
• @sunsethunter has a cool new song with a great video.
• @epodcaster does NaPodPoMo (national podcast post month) in November. We can all be podcasters.
• @gadrian does some posts that share news about Hive in a similar way to what I do in these.
• @mynewlife released the trailer for his film about the Hive wells in Ghana. Share this around.

The Dog House

We get some accounts on Hive that seem to come in with a suspicious amount of knowledge considering that they are new here. Here is an account of one such. If you immediately know all the right tags and pop up all over Hive Discord. It is much better to be honest if you had a previous account or you had help. If your writing looks suspicious too then you are likely to get the wrong kind of attention.

Hive is small and odd things will stick out. People are looking out for them, so we will get caught. Honesty really is the best policy.

The End

You can expect to see me in Snaps, but I have also been active in Threads and Waves. Sometimes I just want to share some information that does not justify a post. You can add some value like that.

Rather than sharing the post rewards with those I mention I will set @commentrewarder as a beneficiary to all commenters can earn more. I tend to prioritise comments from those I mentioned anyway. We need more engagement on Hive.

Hive five!

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