Quality over Quantity
@josediccus
Posted 5d ago · 3 min read
Whenever people say Quality over Quantity we already know that people are trying "substance over numbers" in terms of content on web2 or web3, it's simple about creativity and depth and most times our interpretation of quality will always look similar no matter where we're coming from.
This is because quality is universal, anyone that sees thing that lacks substance or creativity will recognise it and that's why we can all interpret quality to mean something similar no matter the angle we're looking at it from.
Booting out AI content creation
A few years back, Hive decided (stakeholders) that it doesn't want AI generated contents, and a lot of people left the platform because they were AI creators.
Some people adjusted, the likes of taskmaster were heavy AI creators, but had to adjust because the platform began working against creators who didn't want to put in their own creativity to create stuffs that are original.
Hive: Social creator's standards
People thought Hive was being mad, redundant and backward for not allowing AI or low quality contents but today X (twitter) has officially announced that they're no longer letting users earn with low quality contents anymore.
A few months back, YouTube announced the same thing: demonitizing over 50% of accounts doing AI content creation and mass producing them in large quantity to farm revenue.
Web2 content creation is getting stricter, and this is definitely going to eradicate or reduce competition and only those who are willing to do what it takes will actually earn.
The days of earning on web2 platforms using low quality contents and contributions seems to be coming to an end and I think this is mostly because of the current influx of users and the platform has to get stricter.
Low Quality is low Quality
This isn't about the money not being there unlike in the web3 space where the money easily slips away. This is actually channeling money to better creators on the X platform and make it easy for other creators to earn for doing original content.
Facebook is by far still the only place where you can earn for low quality stuff and a lot of high quality creators are abandoning Facebook because the Facebook algo and mannerism is messed up and not tweaked enough for real content creators who are adding value.
Except established Creators on YouTube who are actually trying to cross-post their contents to Facebook to amplify or increase their earnings.
Customizing the Creator's economy
My point is that the creator's economy is heating up and everyone can now see that Hive was not mad for saying no to AI or low quality content creation.
You'd wonder why Twitter a platform for mini blogging is now prioritizing long form content creation which was not what they originally were. The truth is that across platforms and protocols everyone is coming to a consensus that low quality or generated stuffs are not good enough for earning.
For us here on Hive, I guess we have to look at those downvotes battles we had a few years back and say, oh looks like it was not a bad idea to stand on our ground that we didn't want AI stuff.
Hive is not dead socially, the tokenomics, internal conflicts and disagreements over channelling the DHF is the biggest issue. We've been a better social platform in terms of customising creator's earning reform.