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Its been a bumpy ride. Back in April of last year, I started seeing a drop in my blog post earnings on Steemit/Hive. Steemit stopped SBD in rewards and give
Steem instead. The steem vaule is lower so it would take longer to gather a good tradable amount.
On hive I used to get 4+ credits a post. 4 dollars (in HBD) a post. Over time, that started to drop. Since content creation is the only job I can do, it started to affect me.
Then the post earnings went from 4+ dollars per post to 2, then dropped to 1 dollar, then dropped in the cents
I've tried different things to get my earnings up. Vlogs, reviews etc
I unlocked monetization on facebook. Since I saw I made more on Facebook than Hive, I decided to "retire" from Hive
Now I was going to retire from making content for Hive like Threespeak videos (doing vlogging challenges) and use that to focus on more reels content for Facebook, tiktok etc
And instead embed my videos from Youtube
Some people took the blog out of content failing to see it from my point of view
Imagine if you spend so much time on a video, blog post, drawing etc only for pennies. Youtube, Tiktok paid you more. Even if Facebook paid me 60 dollars, that's still way more than I got on Hive. That 60 was with in one month, on Hive, it would probably take 4 months just to get 60, instead of seeing it that way.
they saw me as entitled and expecting to be rich
They could have easily given me ideas on content that could engage people more. Nope. AN ex-follower even harassed me, all because I want more than 30 cents a post for my hard work on all of my content. Making videos is more than just pressing record, pressing stop and uploading to the internet.
Then Hive watchers putting my support means at risk because they thought I was vote farming with no proof. A site that doesn't even investigate before they jump the gun?!
Hive is not safe if you are disabled and depend on blogging so you can live, because anyone can ruin your livelihood simply because they "think" you are cheating and have no proof. HW didn't even care to notify me of the fake accounts and ask if I knew about it. Their head admin, adm, just down voted all of the post from a 7-day period to zero, bounced and I had to hunt them down for an answer.
Facebook, YouTube isn't perfect but down votes on those sites don't affect me like a big down vote from someone strong enough on Hive
I just don't have the spoons to chase people down trying to know what I did wrong when they could just tell me. Hive wants to call themselves a platform where creators don't have to deal with the BS of YouTube. HW randomly thinking someone is cheating, sending Adm to remove their rewards leaving no message as to what they've done.
Down votes put my support means at risk since I am a small creator that can't afford any major losses.
Blurt seems like a nice place. On Steemit I started having problems after a year (with the mass downvote bots)
Blurt. No problems so far.
If blurt can add a video platform like Youtube, maybe an application that allows sharing content easier ( kinda like dlike on Steemit to embed blogging content)
If there is something you don't understand, ask me politely instead of just assuming what I meant
Which is what Hive lacks. Hive can't be a better alternative to YT when its the same shit different day
If Blurt can add its own video platform. I am unsure of the system blurt has to combat cheating.
maybe hashtag for curators to check for YT videos even.