I started this community for those of us who publish our observations on specialized servers dedicated to natural observations.
Someday, hopefully SPK will actually finish building the infrastructure and then, our observations will live here as long as Hive does on distributed servers.
It's not likely, but if any server we use goes down, all our work over the past many years will be lost.
In addition, we can add interesting facts and details about the observations here. Observation with a story. This is not suitable to add to observations on, for example iNaturalist.
And then there's the other side of it.
Hive has beautiful photos of insects, birds, plants from the tropics of Asia and Africa or South America. Many of them could be interesting observations, but without location, data and expert identification they are useless.
Most authors don't even know that there is such a possibility and frankly, even if they did they wouldn't be interested.
Hive is a welcome way for them to make a little extra money.
So maybe some of them will join if they get a decent upvote for their observations.
