Your rant was refreshing and it resonates with how most of the stuff I find it difficult to treat Hive like other social media. People aren't incentivized enough to go outside the box when it comes to content curation because the alternative is choosing an author known to write well and fits well with platform. I saw some niche authors here try for a few weeks talking about niche contents that only they get, it's not entirely their fault, it's just that we don't have enough audience that might be interested in something like visual light novels.

It's far easier to just change our own expectations than swim against the tides. This is the game, either we play it or not participate. @nonameslefttouse dropped a comment that really made me think about improving my stuff, it's a gradual process but I'm working on it.

I tried experimenting with different types of content over the years, changes my tune, style, put in effort on some, got lazy in some, and the only conclusion I got from experimenting is that it's better to be like every generic content creator here talking about their personal lives that matters less instead of topics that matters more from the outside. I still bother to do both because I'm invested in the subject. I know some people built a career as a writer using their blogs here as a portfolio sample then went inactive because their other gig pays well for their time than here, but Hive was a training ground.

As stupid as it sounds, I still dream of getting good at digital illustration do freelance with it, so that's why I struggle with getting art posts since these aren't something I'm good at but I want to be better at content creation.