Implementing communities helped a lot... Not just for curating posts, but also for easier finding "your people"... Despite some negative comments, HIVE has evolved a lot from where we were 5-6-7 years ago, but we have a lot more things to improve...
I'm not giving up on HIVE... It has a lot of potential, but people need to realize that and use that potential for the long term... It sounds like a utopia, but I believe we have a chance...
But I believe that true curation lies in individual users too.
That's something that I like to emphasize everywhere... Individual curation is the real thing... It empowers the person who is doing it, and it creates much stronger bonds between the author and the consumer/curator... and it gives a good example for other newbies!!