Mind you it's still well below minimum wage even just by cutting pasting across!
How hard do you think is it for people to make $5 from their own blog? That's even not accounting for expenses they run.
Even just getting 3k views in a month is a challenge many never achieve.
Even if it's only $3, earned in your first 30 days with a new "blog", that's revolutionary. In the past there have been few platforms who shared revenue with authors... Where are they now? #RIP
For someone who hasn't been multiple years on a platform, most often is inexperienced in traffic building, and has as comparison only a self-hosted platform $3 from self-plagiarism is fkn amazing.
That said, Hive is the better earning platform for those who have invested time in building their network but comparisons are not fair. Most people get 0.02 at best, pre-curation split, after their first two posts. What we make on our posts, after 3 years of activity on the platform and knowing how everything works, is NOT the experience of new members. Hive will outperform p0x for newcomers... if you know about #introduceyourself and #gems/ocd/communities. If not... good luck making even $3.
RE: A month of posting on PublishOX - Dismal earnings, but not an entirely negative experience!