RE: 10,000 Newbies?
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I am still quite new to Hive, but I have really enjoyed exploring the different communities here. All the time, I find myself reading about subjects I never knew I would be interested in before randomly stumbling upon them. I think it is really cool that there are so many communities for people to join, and that you don't need to choose just one. People are complex, and it is nice that there are communities for just about any hobby or subculture, where you can interact and post with likeminded people. I think this is what social media was supposed to be, and it feels a lot more genuine that anything you will find on some of the bigger, corporate media platforms.
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I'd frankly say the engagement is less genuine than elsewhere, as it is incentivized. People often interact with each other to get attention and lure upvotes, don't they ;) I guess we all kinda have that in mind, someone more, someone less, but it's still in the air.
I agree that perhaps motivations could be less than genuine in some cases, but at least there are incentives for real people to chime in. All of the big social media sites seem to be overrun by bots, and with comment sections that are heavily curated. Its getting pretty difficult to determine which comments are from real people, and which views are really popular with all of the bots muddying the waters. Because the conversations on those platform seem fake, I will never comment on something that wasn't posted by someone I actually know. I have only been on Hive a short time, but I do feel that is easier to tell when what you are reading is genuine, and I feel more encouraged to interact when you know there is a real person on the other end.
I don't really use other social media, so I can't judge the bot-driven traffic and so on. However, We also get raided regularly by bots, or spammed by real people who are comment-farming or just copy-pasting AI summaries of your posts. This typically happens on high-payout posts – just look at the comments under this one (even though $20 isn’t really much and my $0.02 upvotes aren't very appealing either). The comments I haven’t upvoted look shabby to me. Do the math: What's the ratio of genuine comments here?
Honestly, compared to Facebook or Instagram, I'd say your ratio actually looks pretty good. I think the lower volume of comments on Hive helps people to manage what they see to an extent, so it is easier to pick out the bots/farmers you referenced. In most cases, by the time a fb/inst post comes across my feed it already has hundreds of comments, and only the "trending" responses get shown. You never know if something is actually a trending opinion or just manufactured to look that way. I guess you could really pick through the comments and try to gauge the consensus of the genuine, but that would get to tedious for most to even bother. At least from what I've seen so far, bots here seem easier to identify and ignore.