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There have been discussions about Hive content quality for ages which eventually put us in an unfavorable position in my eyes where large votes were almost exclusively assigned to long form content that had an appearance of effort. 

>Look, many words, and a picture, must be valuable.

At the same time whales/curators completely set aside the facts of the world. Long form content in the form promoted on Hive is a thing of the past. 

**Tech companies realized that most people are shit writers, most have very little to say, most have very little smart to say, attention span is extremely short, and in order for the masses to use their products they need to cater to those masses.** 

## Thus "snackable content" was born.

*Youre not talented enough to make a full blown youtube video? 
**Well our platform promotes content thats 10 seconds long.*** 

*You got an F for writing essays in your English class? 
**Well our platforms caters to content thats 6 words long!***

These "restriction" platforms became all the rage. Blogging was a thing of the past. Essays and articles for college and newspapers for grandparents to read.

Yet, it all remained firmly established on Hive. 
### **The curators were looking for a very specific thing that not many were capable of delivering and very few people interested in consuming.** 

While there was openness to write whatever you wanted, the fact that Hive functions the way it does, via community moderation, no algos present and frontends designed the way they are, while only specific content was greatly supported, doing "whatever you wanted" meant **you neither could get votes or attention.** 

You were yelling into the void. 

Finally... after years of this shortsightedness that still slightly persists, mind I say, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. **Some devs showed up realizing that its actually engagement that matters** and catering to the lowest common denominator via frontend design is actually the way to go. Not complete focus on content form openness like Peakd or Hiveblog does it. 

Instead of everyone having to run track next to Usain Bolt to get ahead, now, Usain Bolt had to take a leisurely stroll just like everyone else and get ahead that way. 

**Restricting content via frontend design leveled the playing field.** 
And an even playing field is what attracts masses. 

So yes... Im looking forward to more apps like the ones that are slowly getting popular on Hive. I wont do any promos here. 
*(You have to pay me for that. Im an influecer now, didnt you know?)* 😂

Ofc, the irony of writing a long form post like this one promoting short form content is apparent to anyone. 
And lets say thats the idea because I could have just as easily MADE THE EXACT SAME POINT in many fewer words. 

>### No one cares bout blogs. That stuffs 2005. Engagement and views matter more than word count.

😘


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