Here I am, 10 days later, and one third of the entire stretch, into the 30 days writing challenge. A short recap, which will cleverly serve as the 10th post, is due.
Getting up to speed with daily publishing was easier than I thought. After almost 3 years of no social media, or any other form of public writing, it felt like riding the bike, a thing that you just do on autopilot. Full disclosure, though, I did write every day during this hiatus, just not publicly. I still journal every day, something that proved enormously useful for my mental wellbeing.
Using Hive / Peakd also felt familiar, like talking to an old friend. There was no friction whatsoever in using the publishing platform.
Also, finding topics to write about was a non-issue. After so much time spent in public silence, I feel like a have a backlog that urgently needs unloading, rather than struggling to find topics to write about.
One final word about the rewards. I am very surprised to see that almost nothing changed here. The same curation mechanisms are in place and I was happy to see in my voters' list a lot of familiar names. Curation guilds are still a thing, I reckon.
All in all, I think Hive is a still a very solid way to monetize (bio) content.
This is even more interesting if we take into account that during the last 3 years, a lot of things happened in this vertical. Lens, Story protocol, Farcaster, to name just a few of the buzzwords, all tried to 'revolutionize content'. All of them had huge funding and a lot of visibility. In all honesty, after an initial peak, supported by strong marketing, none of them stuck.
It's refreshing to see a 9 year long project like Hive not only surviving, but really thriving in the blockchain content vertical - even if the community is still relatively small. For now.