Hive Blog Octover Situation
Right now, it's pretty much peak tv season so all of my screen time goes toward that but I have no real intention to start making posts just to make posts here on my blog covering some local Belgian Tv shows I watch 1 episode a week from which nobody interests. So the content has been at an all time low. I do still aim to get the number I movies that I watched in 2025 toward 50 (6 more) and I do plan to complete a full year of keeping track of my Hive Blog progress with these monthly posts.
Hive Posts in Octover
With just 3 posts it reamains hard to keep my Hive Power above the point where my upvote stays above the 0.02$ threshold as the Hive which now feels like a reward token which is printed out of nowhere, and gets dumped by all who are within the curation circle. It remains a model that has shown not to work and needs a ton of improvement which doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon.
10th Month Hive Progress
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I did get 2 more follower last month but my overall engagement and time with this account clearly has gone down along with my overall interest. One of the issues of hive is that it is extremely hard to get a feed that actually gives me the movies/Tv/Games content that I'm interested in and want to also curate. There is such a pressure to post daily and pump out content that 90% of it feels like it's just there to get the upvotes. It's also hard and time consuming to see who actually is good for the platform and not just extracting value that manual curation and just getting good content here is near impossible. There honestly are only a couple blogs that I really relate to and really like as something to actually read and get info from.
| Month | HP / Power Up | Growth | +Leased | Follows | Posts | Comments | Total |
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| January 2025 | 117HP (+100HP) | 17HP | 2921HP | 9 (+9) | 11 | 100 | 111 |
| February 2025 | 207 HP (+50HP) | 40HP | 3916 HP | 15 (+6) | 10 | 89 | 210 |
| March 2025 | 266 HP | 59HP | 5564 HP | 22 (+7) | 9 | 115 | 334 |
| April 2025 | 319 HP | 53 HP | 5395 HP | 28 (+6) | 5 | 78 | 417 |
| May 2025 | 397 HP | 78 HP | 5803 HP | 39 (+11) | 8 | 91 | 516 |
| June 2025 | 468 HP | 71 HP | 4021 HP | 42 (+3) | 4 | 52 | 572 |
| July 2025 | 520 HP | 52 HP | 3529 HP | 49 (+7) | 8 | 62 | 642 |
| August | 559 HP | 39 HP | 2836 HP | 54 (+5) | 4 | 91 | 737 |
| September | 591 HP | 32 HP | 2667 HP | 55 (+1) | 3 | 40 | 780 |
| October | 623 HP | 32 HP | 2114 HP | 57 (+2) | 3 | 19 | 802 |
I also still use a https://hive.vote/ auto-upvote list so my voting doesn't go to 100% on days when I'm not around and I'm honestly more and more leaning to have enough people on there so manual curation becomes only an option. I didn't remove anyone last month and added some new account which before I always tended to upvote manually. Right now my Auto-Upvotes are going to @netflixr | @takeru255 | @incublus | @okarun | @bighungrypanda | @skiptvads | @slobberchops | @ocdb | @erigm | @bigtakosensei | @k4rl4 | @herosik| @marabuzal | and I'm still looking hard to add some more. The main things I look for is genuine content that is within the movies/tv/games communities with the users having a good enough KE Ratio, so no value extractors. This is a real challenge to find.
The current curation APR shows 8.46% which easily pays back the cost of the leases.
October 2025 Recap
I only watched 2 movies in September and more and more realize that I only really should be watching older ones as those are just much more likely to be really good. I really related to Good Will Hunting which was a chat GPT recommendation and to my surprise blew me away making me give it as high of a score as Paris, Texas giving it a 9.2/10. I also went to the cinema to One Battle After Another which I enjoyed watching but it didn't really stick to me making me score it just 6.7/10 as some aspects were just too weird to me.
November 2025 Outlook
We are already 13 days into November and I have yet to watch a movie. I am watching a ton of Belgian Tv shows, started playing Red Dead Redemption 2 again (only 16% complete) and also started watching Pluribus of which the first 2 epsiodes blew me away.
That's it for the October Recap!
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