Hive is much more than a social media platform. As such, I believe the best way to promote Hive is not to promote Hive directly but to promote the platforms/apps etc that you build with Hive that are better versions of the ones people already use.
This isn't a new concept. My suggestion, however, involves a specific use case that seems likely to be overlooked: web novels.
If you're not familiar with them you can find more details here. For those who hate clicking links and want the quick summary, webnovels are serialized books you can read online, often for free. Writers put thousands of words up per day and readers read them eagerly. I think a Hive based application could dominate this market outside of Asia (maybe inside too). Here's why.
Unambiguous Ownership
Writers sometimes complain about being coerced into predatory contracts that leave them unable to republish and earn from their books once complete. This platform wouldn't need contracts and ownership would be easy to verify. You post it first, it's yours.
Better earning potential for writers
Readers could upvote authors they like without decreasing their holding of HP or the in-site token. There could also be included tools for selling and auctioning NFTs, custom AI chatbots and other digital merch to interested fans.
Revolutionize reader rewards
Writers can upvote readers right back. This provides incentives for good beta readers to review and critique content which is helpful when putting together a decent final draft for publishing after completion. Readers could also earn from the community by being regular commentators, blogging quality reviews or just by consistently curating the best novels. As far as I can tell, nobody is rewarding readers that well yet.
Censorship free
This one is a benefit but it comes with risks. On the one hand, without censorship, all sorts of fantastic, unique new genres could emerge and once posted, those stories can't be deleted. On the other hand some of the writing that would end up on a truly censorship free web novel app might put the entire platform at risk so I'd actually recommend some censorship to avoid that.
So that's my idea for increasing Hive's popularity. Tap into an existing expanding market and thoroughly disrupt it with everything that makes Hive awesome to build on. Thanks for reading this far.
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