There was a time.... when frontends like PeakD actually showed post views on every post... and it didn't last very long because it became clear that some posts with really high rewards had very few, sometimes zero views.
I get super frustrated when people with regular autovotes post 2 or 3 times a day, and it's just the same content worded slightly differently each time... they do it to collect on the votes, but it does nothing to entice new content consumers to Hive. Hive does desperately need way more content consumers... it's something I worry about a lot because new Hive is minted each day, there is always new supply created and so you want to make sure there is a constant increasing demand as well - but if the content is dull, repetitive or full of misinformation then that'll affect demand. (Maybe... maybe Hive just gets traded on exchanges and no one cares about the activity on the blockchain, I don't know).
My opinion is that it is a bit of all of the above.
Yes there are reward farms. But there are also real content creators and consumers.
Yes some people will do things to mint and milk what they can, but then so do the people who are genuine... in a genuine way.
I feel that all we can do is work on and grow as much as possible the real, true and organic growth of Hive.
It is up to us, and will be one of the goals of Busy Bees to create a drive to onboard consumers and to de-populate Web2 in favour of Web3.
Will that stop web3 exploits from existing? Nope. But it shall change their percentage and influence.
Ah, you're right, that's definitely a more mature and definitely more optimistic viewpoint. Love it!
I am glad that you enjoyed my optimism! 😁🍻🐝
My weekly tracking of the Busy Bees, which is made up of real bloggers of course has probably done something to do this to me!