Hive

Pros: I like how easy it is to use, especially on mobile with 3rd party apps like Ecency. It’s a great way for me as an artist to improve my craft, share my knowledge while also earning by the side to sustain myself.
The community on Hive is also amazing, and very welcoming. Newcomers feel welcome on the platform and are encouraged to grow through different programs and initiatives on the platform.

You also get to learn a lot from other people, it’s a great place to learn and travel the world from the comfort of your screen.

Cons: I don’t have much to say, I haven’t encountered any I-dudes so far.

Overall: In one word, I’ll say, “Awesome!” To go further, since I joined the platform, I’ve become more consistent with practicing my craft which is painting. I have also come to know amazing people and form connections with them. I’ve recommended hive to a number of my friends and they have no complaints about using Hive, which goes to show what a cool blockchain it is.

Pros: The friendly community, the variety of content and information. the active engagement. and best of all, getting rewarded for writing and reading content.

Cons: Might be a daunting for beginners who might not be familiar with how this whole thing works. Feel free to ask around and communicate with the friendly people and you will be surprised with how helpful people within this community are!

Overall: A bit daunting at the start as it takes some time to figure out how the whole thing works, from understanding curation to different platforms, especially if one is not so familiar with cryptos. After you get the hang of it, there's where the fun begins and I will check out this space everyday!

Pros: There are multiple tokenized communities on Hive, and you can earn in one or more of them. It's a matter of finding the place you are comfortable in and where you are appreciated. And you can always create your own community and tokenize it too.

But Hive is more than the blogging aspect. You can find several interesting games on Hive (including Splinterlands, which is an industry leader), and quite a host of ways to earn, including through defi elements, liquidity pools (called diesel pools on Tribaldex) and other opportunities. There is the possibility to create NFTs on Hive as well (haven't tried it myself).

Currently, the APR for Hive's algorithmic stable coin HBD is set at 20% which is hard to find elsewhere in the world of stable coins, especially on the first layer. Imagine earning 20% interest on dollars...

Cons: Onboarding lots of new users in a short period of time can be problematic. But people are working to find solutions.

Overall: Hive is a surprisingly big ecosystem to anyone who doesn't know much about it. At the base layer, Hive provides the decentralized infrastructure for a host of applications to run on it. The free, 3-second transactions facilitate that in a big way. There are many users on some of those applications (for example many Splinterlands players) that have no idea they are using Hive, yet they do.

Pros: - a strong community that will fight for the blockchain
- fast blockchain
- cheap account creation and there are ways to get one for free
- open-source app and frontend
- NFT, videos etc...
- 20% stable coin
- flexible enough to open up for other opportunities

Cons: - like with all blockchains, some people might find it difficult to grab the concept and some technical aspects such as private/public keys
- spammers are everywhere even here
- not enough users yet to show its real potential

Overall: Great as a blogging and social media platform backed by a strong technology that can power various types of dApps.

Pros: - Feeless transactions.
- large number of P2E games, Splinterlands in particular is one of the largest P2E games with the most number of active users, beating out even Axie Infinity.
- A large and varied community discussing and covering a vast range of topics.

Cons: - What's there not to like? ;)
- Team could do with more aggressive and professional marketing. I feel that more ought to be invested in this aspect by hiring big name ad agencies for a sustained and effective campaign to spread more awareness.

Overall: Playing Splinterlands was my actual intention, but it was through the game that I discovered the blockchain it was build upon.
Since then, I've fully immersed myself into the HIVE blockchain and expanded beyond just the Splinterlands games itself, so much so that I spend more time on HIVE overall than the game which originally brought me here! :D

Pros: * More than a 100 layer two projects
*Support from different communities
*Author and curation rewards

Cons: Sorry, I could not think of any setback for now. So far, my experience is beyond my expectation.

Overall: I was introduced to it by playing Splinterlands. I like the idea of micro-investing in layer two tokens.

Pros: Passionate community supporting application developers. Built in economy with scaled up technology to handle insane numbers of transactions. Interact directly with witnesses and play a part in the community driven vision. Connect with anyone in the world within 3 seconds and your direct support rewards you too.

Cons: People will be people and this blockchain community has all sorts.
Not enough exchanges carry Hive and HBD.
Still in beginning stages as far as front end development and a ways to go to appeal to non-technical majority.
Under-performing token value until recently.

Overall: Digitally organic free enterprise for the masses. The wild west of opportunity and characters with the framework to host any sort of innovation and the economy to support it and include all.

Pros: Ecency is my favorite frontend on the Hive blockchain! The Hive Community is vibrant and active and Hive gives me access to friends all around the world.

Cons: I truly can't think of a single thing that I don't like. It may be difficult for new users to understand how to use everything, but help is there for the asking. Everything is well thought out and works flawlessly.

Overall: The best of the best! Hive is challenging and there are always new things to learn and experience. There are so many opportunities and directions you can go!

Pros: It is a broad platform in terms of concepts and possibilities for participation, dynamic, with effective feedback.

Cons: It has its weaknesses as any human project, but it is perfectible. Sometimes decentralization and conceptual updating fail a little.

Overall: My overall experience is favorable. I have been a user of this platform since it was created, and I will continue to use it.

Pros: - Freedom of Speech
- True Ownership
- Rewards for your content
- Nice community
- Play2earn games
- Complete Social Media Platform (all kind of dapps)

Cons: Personally, I do not see many cons. Maybe the Hivewatchers approach with new users.

Overall: My experience was pretty cool. I've been on Hive for about four or five months. There are such good communities, good games, and it's really nice to blog about everything, especially as we get rewarded for it!

Pros: Daily blogging, interactions with interesting people, rewarded for posts and comments, interesting subchain tokens for passive income.

Cons: HIVE is less than one dollar - it's heavily discounted right now.

Overall: Awesome, I would recommend HIVE for anyone on social media that ISN'T getting crypto rewards for their content.

Pros: From what I can say from 1 year of experience is that, this is the best decentralised social networking on the internet. The Hive ecosystem is really huge compared to others. The Hive is maintained and monitored properly for avoiding abuse, plagiarism and etc.

Cons: Some communities doesn't curate contents even if it has quality.
Some users with huge followers get high values of vote even for low quality posts and that can be a abuse to the reward pool and also unfairness.
Some times if we are honest about something, and of the admins are against that, our content won't get curated.
Most of the users use hive.vote and there are very few 7-10 user who actually reads the content and vote, other follows the curation trail (auto vote).

Overall: Overall I think Hive is better than other decentralised platforms and also the cons I mentioned are seen in all other platforms, so it's not a big need.

Pros: The engagement with others, the ability to show my photographs and art. My adventures and travels.
I love that I can blog on HIVE.

Cons: So far everything I like, after reading up on it and understanding how it works.

Overall: I like HIVE, even though I only been on it for less than 5 months.
I learned a lot and I am still learning. I like connecting with people from all over the world that are like minded.
Through engaging you can grow and help HIVE GROW.

Pros: There are tons of things to do. The social aspect of Facebook and all mainstream platforms without the algorithmic mind washing found on centralized social media platforms.

Cons: The need to bandwagon on the newest trend setting topic being regurgitated by the masses that follow the whales to try to cash in on any topics even if they do not have the knowledge to know what they are talking about.

Not for the faint hearted when it comes to learning the intricacies and platform norms in what you can and can't do when posting.

Overall: The platform is what you make of it, with the non presence of algorithmic topic pushing on your feed you have the control to ensure you are not fed anything that is just there for your attention based on a computer making the choice for you.
While the topic regurgitation occurs because the social platform is community consensus eventually posters that are posing for a quick buck tend to fade in distant history. Freeing your feed.

I recommend you try the platform and take it as a learning experience as opposed to looking at it as aa get rich quick scheme like most of the people leaving the platform pushing nonsensical ideas about anything under the sun.

Pros: In Hive everyone owns their own account, free of censorship, free transactions in 3 seconds, a large number of NFT applications and games, conscious community.

Cons: I consider the market price of Hive to be undervalued. We should put more emphasis on marketing.

Overall: Hive is a blockchain with fast free transactions (3 seconds), where you are the owner of your account which means that no one can censor you, it has a group of world-renowned applications that provide real solutions to real problems, decentralized video storage with 3speak, NFT games with a healthy economy, an engaged community. Etc.

Pros: Awesome communities.
Great income opportunities.
Great Investment opportunities.
A stable coin that has a 20% APR.
Great for blogging and engaging with others.
Great place to build a brand.

Cons: I do not really have anything to put here. I like everything about the Hive Blockchain in fact it is the measuring stick by which I judge all other blockchains.

Overall: Hive has changed my life. Before I did not really know how to develop income online other than reselling. Along comes Hive with its no fees and super fast transaction and all of those layer 2 tokens and communities are just the icing on top of the cake.

Pros: The pros of Hive are numerous. It is a blockchain that allows the user to create content of a diverse nature and publish from the same platform, or from specific dapps, such as 3Speak; and this makes it easy for the creator to focus on their niche.

There is excellent interaction between users and great commitment from the administrators and moderators of the platforms.

Cons: I find no cons in this ecosystem. It's a decentralized environment, and for co-creator management, I think there's a level of excellence and respect that's unique to Hive.

Overall: I spent 2 years participating in another blockchain and when I came to Hive I realized what a serious and real blockchain blog is.

I started to create my own profile and portfolio, and I can say that here the quality of the content is what counts. Far beyond your time in the place, your acquaintances, or whatever, there you can be a real blogger, and if you're good, they'll notice.

Pros: Open Source and everyone can contribute.
Free to use.
No fee gas.
A lot of dapps already developed.
Decentralized.

Cons: A lot of concepts to understand but since you understand it it is really easy to use.

Overall: An excellent decentralized solution for social platform with a lot of dapps.
Excellent community and helps new users.

Pros: Censorship resistant AND you can earn crypto. What's not to like? Far superior to its competitors in terms of features, content and activity.

Cons: Short form content generally isn't appreciated and a bad interaction with a whale can lead to you earning little to nothing. But if it is only the decentralization and censorship resistance that you care about then those things are a minor concern. If you do endeavor to actually earn though you'll have to be careful whose toes you step on. This is not actually an issue for most people but something to be aware of.

Overall: While the details regarding how rewards and the entire hive ecosystem works can be complex, simply using hive is a breeze. Post content and upvote what you like. What could be simpler. There are a variety of front ends to use. Add to that rewards for both creating content and curating and you have an outstanding platform. There are imitators but they all pale in comparison at the moment.

Pros: Hive is an eco-system for web3 apps to be built.
Fast, free transactions.
No barrier to entry.
Fully decentralized.

Cons: Low amount of documentation to use.
They could produce a lot more for developers to start with.

Overall: The best blockchain available for building on.
Top rated dapps.
Top 5 in activity.
2+ Million users already active on chain.