A couple months ago I made a post going over our Onboarding numbers and today again thanks to @hivetrending, we came up and implemented a cool idea that may help with our retention numbers.

The thing with the onboarding program is that onboarders spend time and energy to guide these users into their Hive journey launch and we can rest assured that these are real users that have been invited p2p to join Hive. This is why the onboarding project gives onboarders additional tools and a gateway to support these users early on through nominating their posts for curation through us. However, to prevent too much favoritism between onboarded users through our gateway compared to say regular users finding out about Hive themselves or being invited by people not in our program we also have the @lovesniper initiative that seeks out first posts of new accounts to curate and follow if they seem genuine. This means that users in our onboarding program have a limited time for direct nomination of curation so they don't always have an edge over regular new users and creating a scenario where some users wish they had been onboarded rather than having joined Hive on their own.

Since a lot of directly onboarded users "graduate" from our program after a few months, there's been instances where some have been completely ignored by other stakeholders/curation projects and due to the welcoming nature of our votes have felt disappointed/neglected by the instant lack of voting support which may have caused some to go inactive.

That is partially what this new initiative aims to help out.

The @lovesniped account is simple. It recently followed all the ~2k onboarded accounts since January 2022 (with a current retention rate of 300 still active ~15%) and will continue to follow newly onboarded users as announced in the @ocdb onboarder compilation posts that attempt to reward the onboarders for their time and effort.

The @lovesniper account works similarly, it follows genuine-seeming new users and curates them here and there but the graduation process there is once a new account reaches 60 rep they're unfollowed (we may raise this slightly).

The idea is that now everyone can easily and simply follow along onboarded users and interact and curate them through the @lovesniped feed similar like the @lovesniper feed.

Using peakd for instance, you can go to https://peakd.com/@lovesniped/feed, you can use the filter to remove reblogs and now you get an instant feed of all onboarded accounts still actively posting. You can on your own now help retention rates of vetted and directly onboarded users from our select few onboarders with your stake and activity.

Another great thing about @lovesniped, is that if some of these users make a comeback, we're more likely to notice this and welcome them back with encouraging comments and curation.

As you can see from the screenshot I just took of the feed, there's plenty of content to be consumed and engaged with and curated.

We're excited to see how this may impact our retention rates and overall activity of our onboarded users and future ones and look forward to continuously evolving the project and trying to scale it.

Let us know what you think of this new initiative in the comments, will you be checking out the lovesnier and lovesniped feeds?

Thanks for reading!

Sending part of the author rewards to @hivetrending for helping with some automation to make this possible.