I feel like compared to other social media platforms, Hive isn't as punishing if you take a break now and then and replenish.
There's no algo overlord watching over your activity and punishing you for having been afk suddenly for a while.
Your followers are either still there or they aren't. They're either going to message you on your post or they aren't.
They are not however, not going to see your post, because their feed is created based on what the algo thinks it wants to see or more like what the algo wants you to see.
I feel like this is something many don't realize, on X for instance I don't even have a feed like I have on hive even if I wanted to. By that, I mean simply seeing tweets based on recent ones first and in that order scroll through them based on who my followers are. All you have is "recent activity" of followers, meaning whenever they leave a comment on a tweet or retweet a tweet it appears there, doesn't have to be the a main tweet they just posted.
It feels like the algo just encourages activity of any kind and discourages those that are trying to create quality over quantity.
I'm not even gonna get started on the "for you" section as that may be even harder to know/understand how exactly it works or how it works against certain accounts you'd wanna see there but never do. Even if you interact with them and try and hint towards the algo that you wanna see the content of this account more, there may be something hindering it from working for you.
Centralized problems.
Our non-existing algo however relies on manual checks, if you're not around then obviously you're not going to see the content you wanna see. You can however be damn sure that if you do wanna see it, it will be there in your feed, even if downvoted to 0.
Kind of crazy that the thing we often dramatisize so much isn't even as censored as the algo on other platforms. Cause there you don't know what you're missing or what it is others may not want you to see.
Anyway, I've been trying some things lately, been introduced to another "community" on sol but I think calling it that would be doing it a favor. Out there it seems very much "pvp" mode, where everyone is against everyone, sort of like when you're entering a free for all FPS game mode. Everyone's trying to trick the other and getting their money, it doesn't matter that they're all using the same blockchain and could create some value by betting on the same token on that blockchain - it's all about quick gains and getting out on top of others.
I feel like some times that happens here as well but not as often, and we do understand longterm benefits better as well as all being under the same token and working towards improving that (even counting HBD).
The more I look outside the more relieved I am that there is such a place like Hive.
I don't think I'd still be in this space if Hive didn't exist.
