It's probably needless to mention how much Hive has changed in the past two years and how different it is in comparison to "its degenerated dad, Steem" but I had to do it anyway. I've had my fair share of dealing with Steem and I am an active hiver since the early days of the chain.

I don't remember exactly if communities got live prior to the hard fork that liberated us from Steem or if it was after the chain got launched, but I sure know that tribes/communities have been a hell of an upgrade for how the social media platform looks and works as a whole. 

I'd even say that since communities have been created tags don't even matter that much anymore. Personally, I have had a period of probably a year or so when I would only "consume Leofinance content", thus I had no incentive to search for any posts based on any particular tag anymore. 

Communities somehow played an important role in sorting out content on Hive and almost every popular community that we currently have somehow has "its own patron". Meaning that the founder is usually pretty "HP wealthy" and thru his upvotes on active community members that account somehow encourages users to post in that particular tribe.

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That doesn't mean that these curators don't get out of their own yard and share the love with other yards gardeners, but overall this is how things work for Hive communities. @leofinance has leo.voter, @ocd has its juicy stake too for upvoting content posted in its community, @3speak videos are quite often curated by @theycallmedan and the @3spek account, and so on and so forth. 

There are "exceptions to the rule" as well, as in the case of @appreciator, @haejin, @ranchorelaxo, @trafalgar @spot, and some other large whales who upvote posts quite randomly not following a particular community for curating content. @appreciator at some point *had his own community, GEMS* and it was trending for a while.

Quite a few of us were uploading content in that community cuz of the "potential upvotes" coming from @appreciator. Now he's all over the place and he's definitely a wealth creator for bloggers on Hive. In some cases such as @leofinance, having LEO as a Hive second layer token that is distributed "inside the Leofinance community" among creators and curators means that *we have our own whales incentivizing creators to post* too. 

Toruk(@onealfa) is an example of such a large LEO whale, probably the largest, who really has an impact on one's content LEO rewards. Personally, I have scored plenty of upvotes from him over the years and I gotta say that this man paid some bills for yours truly...

A community without a fatty whale curating content posted in that community is going to have a short life. I've seen quite a few of these coming and going in my 5+ years on Hive. 

However, I got some sort of a musing for whoever reads this post and this is: *how do you choose what community "is worthy of your content"*? *Are you going after the patron whales swimming these waters, the community as it is, the people "living there", topics discussed... or what*?

Personally, I chose @leofinance as my go-to community for over two years because now because I had plenty of crypto and finance-related posts, and although I "got myself dragged" in here pretty late, I don't regret a damn minute spent here. Lately, I've been posting photography posts through the official @liketu interface as well because I have such posts to share once in a while, and somehow @liketu is the Instagram I asked for since back in the early days of my Steem experience. 

What about you?

*Thanks for your attention,*
*Adrian*    

     

  

 

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