I limit my exposure to mainstream platforms for the most part, mostly because find it irritating to be spoon fed opinions I don't want to be spoon fed. The algorithms generally hate me during elections because because I'll look at extreme altright commentary as well as extreme woke left commentary.
People aren't supposed to do that.
I pretty much agree with most of what you have shared here. To some degree, I see one shortcoming of Hive as content discovery being a bit challenging. I like your suggestion of selectable tags for your feed (aimed at newbies) and have suggested the implementation of a "tag cloud" from time to time.
I find it helpful to treat my following list a bit like a garden... it does need to be tended regularly, or you end up with a lot of "weeds!"
The tag cloud is essentially the topics themselves—everything marked with # is a tag. Duplicating the same thing? What's the point? Or did I misunderstand you?
Search on Hive is a real issue. Recently, I tried to find an article I had viewed not long ago using Google with an exact key query. I had saved the article’s title and even searched with the tag: site:peakd.com (key query, exact article title). The article was from 2023, but the search was unsuccessful. Honestly, it’s a disaster. Similarly, the internal search yielded nothing.
I see the solution only as creating an internal search engine that indexes all textual data on the blockchain. However, this will likely need to be something AI-based and would create a separate registry of information that users can query directly. Alternatively, users could create articles linking to useful posts themselves, but I can’t quite imagine how that would work. Yes, searching for information here is a nightmare.