Yeah, I agree with you 100% regarding the "HIVE marketing" and what is even worse, I thought that way of looking at HIVE is the past, but it looks like it's not... I see onboarding campaigns with the same approach still running, and not by newbies, but some "more experienced" Hivers... 😞
Figure out what curation guilds and whales want to see, and make posts that follow the magic formula.
That is a huge problem that nobody wants to address... People jumping in niches where they will receive big(er) upvotes and where they have no idea about the topic... While some other niches suffer as they have no support... I remember the time when HIVE (or old chain) was full of crypto talk, which was also bad... But, in one moment, all support for that content disappeared and went into foodies, traveling... Don't get me wrong, I like those topics, but we should have some kind of balance...
IMO, the only way to solve this issue is to give back power to people, to individual, manual curators, and that's kind of a topic for many posts that I recently did... It is a long shot, but I will continue talking about it... As it is beneficial from many angles...
We're in a token distribution phase on HIVE, but in my opinion it needs to move to a model where tokens are given to those who provide value: by running nodes, providing a service, etc.
Speaking of that, I was thinking about the issues on HIVE, and one of my conclusions was that we have a problem as our HIVE whales are also our Top witnesses, and our HIVE developers in most cases... That's not a good combo... There is no "counter-balance", which leads to monopoly, bad token distribution, and governance problems...