Most of the users are bots, or the same user with multiple accounts trying to farm as much rewards within the system as possible.
- Most people leave either because they feel it's not worth getting rewards and no engagement
- The rewards dry up
- The in-fighting begins with other stakeholders of a large size
I am not sure you're aware of the certain discord groups the normie hive users aren't privy too, they were exposed during the time of the fork with steem, a lot of unsavory things were said out loud but as is the case in crypto people have the memories of a gold fish, no integrity or are too lazy to ask questions
You don't have to believe me, you're free to scour the chain, twitter screen shots, articles, the info is there it just keeps getting ratio'd by bullshit like Hive fixes this posts to obfuscate the obvious issues that no one wants to admit
Hi, it sounds like you have solid data to show how many Hive users are bots - I'd love to see that if you would share it. I don't really know how many users are bots.
Having been on social media sites and the web since the very beginning, I can assure you that the behavior of people on Hive is no worse and in some ways is better than most other public social sites. Layer 2 communities on Hive have the potential to fix most of the problems you are highlighting, but it will take initiative and strong intentions from individuals and groups to make them work. Again, hive welcomes criticism and challenges critics to do better.
The code to make bots are on GitHub and people also sell bot scripts you can buy to run on your own server or a third party server so as long as you can create an account and sign the keys over to a bot/script it can do whatever you program it to do
Well not really as a “social media” your goal is to reach as many people through as many channels as possible so you need to use public infrastructure to do that
You can have closed networks like sphinx or Zion which are self hosted so you host your own data but these options won’t be popular with the normies not that it’s a bad thing it provides a barrier to keep a lot of nonsense out and only speak with commuted real users quality over quantity
I just see the ecosystem as a way to reach people who are half way in and hopefully I can get them to rethink their biases and reevaluate the marketing talk and consider real sovereignty and privacy tools