Follow Friday: Get social

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steevcyesterdayPeakD4 min read

The News

There is still nothing too cheery about the

price, but maybe it has gone as low as it will for now.

Prices from @coingecko via my script

I always say that it partly in our hands to change things. Hive is a social platform and so we need far more people to be using it regularly. It is just a few thousand right now. The price may be partly to blame, but it can also be the chicken/egg problem of not enough cool content and not a big enough audience to attract the creators. We need pioneers to build that audience.

One thing we can do is to get discussions going about Hive on other platforms. Today I saw @ravenmus1c talking about a Hive community on the Ex-Twitter. I am not on there any more, but they can promote it. There are various efforts that will reward you for doing so.

I do follow Hive on FB. You need to watch out for fake accounts trying to scam you there. I have seen one pretending to be Hive.

are links to the other social accounts including Instagram, Youtube, Telegra, and reddit. If you follow those and engage it may help improve visibility.

If we can persuade some people with large followings elsewhere to come to Hive then we have the chance to build something.

There was a big Discord discussion last week with contributions from several people running big projects about the Hive fund. We may see some changes around that soon. I hope there will be more such discussions to focus our efforts.

Friday Follows

I am not sure I knew @blocktunes was into 3D printing, but he just posted about it. I am finding more people who share this hobby.
@sagarkothari88 posts daily about development on Hive. There is lots going on and you may be able to contribute in some way.
@hdev has updates on the core Hive development.
There is a new game called Limitless from @liaminit1.
In the wake of the Brofund collapse @bozz and others have been trying to get that community back together around a new account at @thepub. That all kicked off just after I did my #FollowFriday post last week.

The Dog House

This is not a criticism of individuals, but I really do wonder what some people think they are doing on social media. What is the point of a Snap like this? I saw some people responded, but then some of them seem to comment on just about everything. I doubt any of them will make much.

So what?

If you want real engagement then you need to create conversations. If you post a picture of your dinner then say something about where you are in the world and what the food means to your culture. On Snaps you have a 280 characters so you can say quite a lot. Make it count.

The End

We are rapidly heading for the end of 2025. I am happy to report that I reached my Hive Power target for the year, so I will comfortably exceed that. Will you reach your goals? Even though the $HIVE price is not great we can still be earning every day. As I said, we can each contribute to making Hive a better place to be. Bring in your friends and make it fun so you want to come back.

Hive five!