Greetings @hannes-stoffel, and thanks for the thoughtful comment!

I'm afraid you made it here after the @commentrewarder cutoff time, so all I can offer you is an upvote.

I have long thought it is a bit ironic that we have to promote the whole "Web 3.0" idea by using Web 2.0/2.5. And, much of the time, people don't really care. Everyone is so very used to things being super easy and they join 100's of places with a "sign in with Google/Facebook" and Hive is immediately at a disadvantage.

I think the "Curation and Engagement Leagues" were a bit before your time here... here's an example of the weekly results... it ran for many years, both on ST33M and subsequently here on Hive:

@abh12345/the-hive-engagement-league-6tggzo

Asher — who was the driving force behind the leagues — created his own algorithm that was capable of distinguishing between useful and useless comments and rank users accordingly. What was also important was that there was HUMAN oversight, it wasn't just automated.

You are right about content discovery being a challenge here... even if all we had were a simple old-fashioned "tag cloud," it would be easier to navigate.

I believe both @commentrewarder and @topcomment are promising initiatives, and I am likely to make use of both more often in 2025. I particularly like that both were launched my long-time Hive evangelists who are active participants in the community, not just developers.