I don't know how reliable the numbers are, but it seems that #Hive sites get less visitors that the 'legacy' one. People do engage more here though. We need to get the numbers up by driving traffic to Hive.
If you add them up then it's closer, but no way should St--mit be that big. I think peakd is the biggest Hive front end.
Just did the sums and Four biggest Hive get 42k visitors compared to 75k on St--mit.
Ouch. I do wonder how accurate those sites are, I’m going to test with one of mine in a little bit to compare against my internal data.
Ok; I looked at 2 of my sites. One of them it estimates at 3x lower than it actually gets, the other one it estimates at 112x higher than it actually gets.
I think the numbers might be worthless 😹
I used this site to check on how we were doing a while back, but I had no way to verify it.
Steem probably does get a decent amount of promotion just from being attached to Sun's name given his (somehow) better reputation around Asia, so I can see it. Last time I had a little look around there it did seem lively, some incredibly high payouts too
If it's a 'war' then yes, but I expect most downvotes are dealing with abuse. People will do what they want anyway. We have to work on what we can improve.
I guess it has something to do with SEO reputation, Steemit links appear in searches more often than Hive ones, at least for older content.
We can beat S*****t by nurturing our communities, though :) I shared my take on that earlier today :)
I really don't know what their communities are like. There are a few Hive 'exiles' over there with an axe to grind.
For what I know, all the healthy ones left for Hive :) Except perhaps some from Asia.
One has to account for world population, and the fact that Justin Sun's success is important to his native country. China is not going to lose face over a fork in a blockchain, so that's a numbers game that will not be easily beaten. The key is to compete for quality, not quantity.
Quality definitely matters. Both sites are tiny on the global scale. Does Sun really care about the platform he bought? I think he may be embarrassed by it :)
He probably doesn't care about it ... but it also doesn't matter. On sheer numbers, just because he is the owner, he will get support in his home country, and, for reference, that's around four times the population of the United States, which is around 340 million.
When you look at quality at X or TikTok, it is very low.
But they get a lot of attention.
Yes ... and if that crowd came to Hive, seeking low quality interactions, we would become TikTok or X like, and a lot of the people looking for better than that would leave. Sometimes on Hive I think that even though we struggle for attention, that may be a blessing in disguise until we meet the audience that truly wants better.
