Ever since the early days of Steem, microblogging, and short-form content has been discouraged on Hive. Instead of bashing through "word of mouth," it was more common to receive downvotes and lack of support for such content. To be considered a high-quality Hive post, it had to be as lengthy and complex as possible.
Although I still enjoy reading lengthy blog posts, especially those by @edicted, I believe that a 300-word piece of content can hold the same value as a 1,000-word one. Just like in real life, on Hive, I am often captivated by the essence rather than the packaging of the content.
We've had Liketu and Leothreads on Hive for a while now. While Liketu seems to be a blockchain-based Instagram dedicated to photography-oriented short posts, Leothreads fills the void as the Twitter-like platform we've been waiting for on Hive.
Although I've been blogging daily for over 5 years, I believe that microblogging should not be underestimated. In fact, if we look at the most popular social media apps in the world right now, they are all oriented towards short-form and easily digestible content.
Whether we consider Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, or Snapchat, they all have one thing in common: easily consumable content. Very few platforms are focused on long-form content.
Does this mean we should suddenly stop encouraging blogging on Hive and shift entirely to #threads? No, but I also don't see #threads as the ultimate platform I once dreamed of. Recently, @khaleelkazi posted a thread discussing "meaningful engagement" and even touched(indirectly) on the issue of shitposting on #threads.
I understand that some may view microblogging as synonymous with shitposting, but I don't agree with that perspective. In my response to Khal's thread/post, I mentioned that the majority of users who engage in shitposting on threads do so for the sake of numbers.
I firmly believe that the surge in shitposting on #threads is driven by the pursuit of stats. People are chasing various ranks in order to climb higher on these charts, leading them to produce excessive amounts of content.
Consequently, many individuals end up creating dozens of threads per day. However, if I may be frank, not many are capable of consistently producing "meaningful threads" day in and day out. While I appreciate insightful quotes and captivating videos, bombarding threads with repetitive content about whales and their statistics in five or six consecutive threads is not the kind of engagement I would like to see.
The same applies to quotes. While a meaningful quote can brighten your day, having five or six quotes, all very similar to each other, being posted at a rate of one quote per minute, feels like spam rather than genuine engagement.
Personally, I believe that if most users cared less about these stats and rankings, our threads feed would be cleaner and filled with more meaningful content. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy threads. I appreciate the memes and musings that I come across there, but at the same time, there is a considerable amount of low-quality content cluttering the threads.
Observing Twitter and other popular social media platforms, it's evident that nobody becomes famous or achieves long-term success as a social media influencer by spamming. Meaningful engagement and sustained success are not built through shitposting. Surprisingly, #threads on Hive is no exception to this.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian
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