Hive Communities
Learn how to use and participate in Hive communities.
Communities on Hive
Hive Communities are topic, journal and council based groups where users can publish content, connect, and moderate discussions. Communities create smaller ecosystems within Hive tailored to specific interests like photography, crypto, fitness, or parenting.
Why Use Communities?
- Targeted audience for your content
- Custom rules and moderation
- Better content discovery
- Build niche-focused followings
Communities are optional, but highly recommended for finding your tribe.
Types of Communities
All communities and posts are viewable and readable by all, and there is a governance mechanism which can affect visibility and prioritization of content for the purpose of decreasing noise and increasing positive interactions (however a community wishes to define it) and discourse. By default, communities are open for all to post and comment (“topics”). However, an organization may create a restricted community (“journal”) for official updates: only members of the organization would be able to post updates, but anyone can comment. Alternatively, a professional group or local community (“council”) may choose to limit all posting and commenting to approved members (perhaps those they verify independently).
- 🌍 Topic: anyone can post or comment
- 📰 Journal: guests can comment but not post. only members can post.
- 🗞️ Council: only members can post or comment
How to Post in a Community
- On Ecency (or any Hive frontend), click “Create Post”
- Use the “Post in community” option
- Select a community (e.g.,
Photography Lovers) - Write your post and publish
Your post will appear:
- In the community feed
- On your personal profile
- Visible to search and discovery systems
Community Roles
Each community has:
- Owner: Full control, can delegate roles
- Admins: Moderate and manage members
- Mods: Curate, approve, or remove content
- Members: Approved members of the community
- Guests: Anyone else
🔐 What roles can do?
Owner has the ability to:
- set admins: assign or revoke admin privileges
Admins have the ability to:
- set moderators: grant or revoke mod privileges
- set payout split: control reward sharing destinations/percentages
- set display settings: control the look and feel of community home pages
Moderators have the ability to:
- set user roles: member, guest, muted
- set user titles: ability to add a label for specific users, designating role or status
- mute posts: prevents the post from being shown in the UI (until unmuted)
- pin posts: ability for specific posts to always show at the top of the community feed
Members have the ability to:
- in an topic: N/A (no special abilities)
- in a journal: post (where guests can only comment)
- in a council: post and comment (where guests cannot)
Guests have the ability to:
- post in a topic: as long as they are not muted
- comment in a topic or journal: as long as they are not muted
- flag a post: adds an item and a note to the community’s moderation queue for review
- follow a community: to customize their feed with communities they care about
Some communities auto-moderate with posting guidelines or curation queues.
Where to Find Communities
- Ecency Communities
- Join directly via links on community posts
Tips
- Read community rules before posting
- Engage with other posts - comments and votes matter
- Support your favorite communities by voting their posts or admins
Summary
- Communities help organize content by interest
- Join and post to relevant groups to increase visibility
- Most frontends support community features natively