Follow Friday - Hope in sight?

We are several months into this experiment known as Hive. We have lost a fair few users who would rather use the corrupted Steem and others who got fed up with the drama. They have had time to power down, so it is up to us to have an influence on the $Hive price, which has stalled. It lingers next to $Steem at the bottom of the @Coingecko top 100.

Visits to Hive.blog are increasing, but we have to keep the momentum going.

We could do with more people like Hive account@nathanmars who is working pretty much full time on Twitter to promote the platform. Give that Twitter suffered a major breach this week we have an opportunity to make more people aware of the alternatives.

We have to see out hopeful signs and tell the world. Last week I featured Hive account@dannewton on #FollowFriday. He mentioned that he knew a load of other new Hivers in the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire area, so here they are. Hive account@fastchrisuk Hive account@richgaynor Hive account@wildonewon Hive account@purplephoto Hive account@neilru75 Hive account@flashpointstudio Hive account@fizogphotography Hive account@ebabb Hive account@audreyvr are all into #photography. I hope they all appreciate that Peakd is a great site to show off your picures as it allows viewing them large and even does full screen slide shows. This sort of concentration of users makes meetups more viable. Hive account@c0ff33a has one in Halifax in September that is not too far from this bunch. I know a few people who are going, but it is a bit too far from me to work as a day trip.

There is a #teamuk tag you can use to show you are in the UK and it may earn you an extra vote.

Hive account@slobberchops has a post where he mentions Dan and some other accounts you may with to check out.

I also want to mention witnesses. These people are essential to keep the Hive blockchain running. Many of them are active developing dapps as well as working on the blockchain itself. Others do promotional work. You can show your appreciation by voting for up to 30 of them. You should check if any you vote for are inactive. Millions of 'vests' in votes are still going to some who have done nothing in years. You can set another user as a voting proxy if you want. I cannot see a way to do that on Peakd, but you can do it on Hive.blog (at the bottom of the page).

We can each play a part in the success of Hive from which we could all gain. Even if you do not have a lot of Hive Power you can talk about it on other social media and with friends directly. If you recruit someone who needs some delegation then let me know.

Hive five!