I've been on here for a year and a quarter now and I've learned some things.
The best content is not always the content that gets the most updoots and tokens.
There's some bot fuckery going on big-time on hive. My biggest post ever has 150 updoots but only 13 unique visitors and a total page-view time under 1 minute. How does that happen?
Hive is not organic and that's my biggest problem with it. I think that, unfortunately, as is with much of crypto at this early stage still, there is big-time gamification going on in the blockchain. Shit content is often mega-rewarded and new accounts accumulate vast sums of hive very quickly. How?
@chekohler 's post about Web 3 being repackaged shit resonated with me and is playing through my head as I type this out to you here.
I really enjoy Hive but I feel strongly that there is shady stuff going on here and I'm not afraid to speak my mind about it. You shouldn't be either if you feel that you're noticing something weird in hive and you're reading this post now and haven't spoken up before.
Your voice is important. If it can be silenced here, anywhere, then you live in a system that needs to be destroyed.
Most of the users are bots, or the same user with multiple accounts trying to farm as much rewards within the system as possible.
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
Hi, what is the 'best' content is totally subjective and that is part of the point of Hive's design - a consensus is reached among the stakeholders via the voting process as to what is subjectively 'best'. Obviously, this means that large stakeholders can direct the outcome more than small stakeholders, however, at the same time there would be zero money to pay anyone any rewards without the investment from stakeholders. There is no other system that is voluntary that can result in your content getting decent financial rewards from strangers that doesn't involve advertising. When advertisers get involved the biases are increased far more than occurs on Hive - the list of content topics that will never receive a penny from Youtube ads, for example, is very long.
From what I can tell, the big stakeholders on Hive are mostly people who have been here since the beginning of Steem and who have amassed tokens through investment of time, creation of projects and generally (subjectively) helping the project. As with the offline world, the chances are that there are some thieves, scammers and other bad actors who are among the big stakeholders too. This is a problem with virtually all economic systems - the banks and governments being arguably orders of magnitude more corrupt than anything on Hive is ever likely to be.
From my perspective, the shadiness of Hive is reflective of the shadiness of the rest of the world, but at least Hive overcomes some of the biggest problems of Web 2.0 sites. Hive is also open source, so if you can improve on it then you are always welcome to fork and do just that. Hive welcomes criticism and challenges critics to do better.