Each month, HivePosh brings in a visitor count that’s several times greater than Hive’s active user base. But attracting people is only half of onboarding: to get a good harvest, you need to care for the soil, not just scatter seeds. And that part is not within HivePosh’s control:
- we have very limited access to the stats of front-ends,
- and we can’t optimize frontends' UI to fit onboarding needs.
And that’s okay - Hive is a decentralized blockchain. But how to take care of "the soil" then?..
Here’s an idea I came up with: What if we create Hive communities, optimized for onboarding around specific topics and audiences?
Let me show you what I mean - a community that’s in my personal top 5:
In the “About” section, it just says “photography.” Together with the community name “Black and White,” this forms the phrase “black and white photography.” And that’s a perfect match - because black and white, more than any other kind of photography, needs both visual and verbal conciseness. But from the onboarding point of view, this description is a missed opportunity.
- Example of Targeted Onboarding Community
The About Working for Onboarding
The About should work for onboarding:
The About is "Libertarianism in action: join a blockchain owned by its users and earn non-state money for what you post", and it includes a call to action: if your beliefs are libertarian, act like a libertarian - sign up.
Libertarians are pro-crypto and that makes them Hivers who yet don't use Hive 😄 No joke — if you want crypto adoption, you're effectively voting to eliminate one of the central pillars of the state, its monopoly on money. That makes you a libertarian. Believing that crypto is the future means believing that libertarianism is the future.
Thus, libertarians are the best target for Hive promotion.
- Did you know the Libertarian Party is the 3rd largest in the USA?
The Description Working for Onboarding
I keep convincing in the description:
Decentralized blockchains provide a free-market alternative to state control over money and identity. You can be part of this without learning code or trading: sign up for Hive blockchain social media to join the diverse community, and start discussing anything you like, from politics to traveling and cooking. Content is rewarded with $HIVE here, which you can trade for other crypto or cash.
Use our community's link to sign up: https://peakd.com/register?ref=hive-138714 No KYC, free registration.
As a result, the About and description appeal to certain Redditors and work for onboarding them. Add to this
Pinned Posts Working for Onboarding
Yes, and pinned posts should be added to this onboarding orchestra.
Referral Links
A community peakd referral link will help collect data on onboarded users.
We can also offer OCD onboarding links to those users who have old Reddit accounts - this info can be shared in Pinned posts.
We can contact chosen users directly on Reddit, inviting them to such a community, with all the needed arguments in one place - the About, description, and pinned posts in a targeted onboarding community.
Authors of posts in such communities can add a link to the community page at the end of the posts - that will help send more people to read the onboarding info in About, description, and pinned posts.
Thus, a Community Can Work As a Tool for Onboarding
What other obvious choices for other targeted onboarding communities?
First of all, it is
- Political News
That's a general audience, with many people believing crypto is bad, but! news generates A LOT of visitors.
For example, 17,000 visitors from one share:
Can't we create a news onboarding community with 100% commentrewarder, for example? Something like:
News Hunter: Earn rewards for commenting on news on user-owned decentralized social media
Just a raw idea. Your thoughts will be much appreciated.
HivePosh Snaps too!
Sharing political news on X/Twitter can generate traffic too. And making them #gosh can be helpful to get even more visitors to c/News Hunter or whatever we'll name it...
I am stopping unleashing my imagination here because I believe you've perhaps caught my idea of what a targeted onboarding community can be.
Hope to hear your opinion, dear reader:
Do you think this idea - targeted onboarding communities - is worth investing time? If so, what targeted onboarding communities should we create? Maybe already existing communities can turn into onboarding ones?..
The drawing was generated with PeakD AI: https://peakd.com/ai