How do you even make a bot on Hive to give out upvotes? These bots don't produce content it even looks like or, if they do, it looks like it's just ripped from someone's Tumblr.

I completely believe you when you're saying this stuff about Hive being an insular, mafia-like establishment. And I completely agree with you when you say it's not really decentralized OR private in any shape or form.

All of this data is being mined by multiple crawlers from ads to data brokers etc, just like any web 2 site with any decent SEO is these in current year.

That being said; is there anything we can do within Hive to educate ourselves about how to make this community more decentralized and more truely privacy-preserving? If not in this community, where do we go from here?

I don't think anything I've said on my Hive account is a bannable offense even in normie web2 properties but to think that there is this shroud of malcontent behind a lot of what happens on Hive is really disconerting.

I like reading your posts because you seem critical and I think critical is the way to be when it comes to tech and how much it truly takes from us all, often so because we freely give it away ignorantly.