Hive interface. Photo: Europa Press.
Hive It is one of the social networks who are benefiting from the arrival of the tycoon Elon Musk to Twitter's Board of DirectorsMany users are finding in it a alternative which combines the features of the platform of blue bird with which it presents Instagram, Hive Social.
The origins of this new platform date back to 2019, when its founder, Kassandra Raluca, began learning to program in Swift self-taughtIn October of that same year, the first version of the 'app' for iOS and, during this time, work has been done to improve its usability.
Published just a few days ago in the Play Store of devices Android and which users of iPhone (compatible with iOS 15.0 or later versions of this operating system), Hive allows users create an account or connect from another existing profile, that is, with an email or with the account of Google.
As detailed on its website, Hive Social became the most downloaded app on the App Store in February 2021, ahead of Facebook, Messenger or Discord. Then a developer specialized in creating was incorporated similar functionalities to those deployed by its competitors.
Among them, Hive Social integrates a chronological feed that does not show the posts of the accounts based on an algorithm, but they are placed according to how they have been sharing. In addition to images, videos and GIFs, users can share surveys.
This 'feed' is very similar to the one presented by Instagram, with the publications in landscape format, the name of its creator on them and the description below the photograph. Between this and the shared image, they are displayed three buttons.
The first of them is 'I like', heart-shaped, which turns into red when pressed. The button comments has a blue color, while that of share (which has the same function as the 'retweet' button) is yellow color.
Just like the social network created by Goal, for example, integrates among its different tabs the 'Discover', with contents that are'trending topic' and other personalized ones based on the user interests and their interactions in the social network.
Another option that appears in the main interface is 'Look for', represented by a magnifying glass, which is used to search for other users in your databaseThe '+' is meant to go up multimedia files, while the one in the bell collects all the account notifications.
Finally, in the bottom right The account profile picture is placed in the interface miniature. When you click on it, this section opens, which also shows a cover photo, as well as the button account settings and profile editing.
As the company points out in its Web page, users can also share songs in your user profile, your zodiac sign or the pronoun with which they identify, as well as adopt a certain color for the interface, of the 35 available.
Additionally, you can add a link under the profile description, which will acquire the color of the chosen theme previously, and presents a direct message box at the top right of the app, just like Instagram does.
Since its launch, and according to its latest shared data, the social network has surpassed 300,000 users and has grown organically to 600 000.
Following the movements recorded on Twitter and together with Hive Social, have multiplied newly created accounts in other alternative social networks, as Mastodon or Post, created by the former CEO of Waze.
The first one usually causes special interest every time Twitter is immersed in controversy, until the world that in the week after the closing of the acquisition of the Blue Bird platform by Musk, has come to register more than 230,000 usersOn November 20, he announced that he had surpassed the 2 million active users.
It is a platform of 'microblogging' open source that stands out for its decentralized character. Mastodon works through different servers, and they are the administrators of each of them who are in charge of the moderation of publications.
Post also presents itself as an alternative to this social network, which offers the return to civilized conversation for "real people" and "real news". In your case, it offers the possibility of writing texts without length limit or react to other posts, although it is currently under development and supports users according to a waiting list.
Like the rest of social networks, it presents actions as the possibility of comment, share posts, give a 'Like' and an interface designed to view it vertically. It also encourages buy items, read content from various sources and help content creators through micropayments.
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