Improving the sociability of Hive

Last night I was talking with @starkerz about the social on Hive's social network. The network is still far from being a social environment. Although it has improved in some ways, I still think that it lacks the horizontal participation that other platforms have. The way you can connect with the people that write the content that you follow is still a hard and somewhat obscure task. But also the way that your content gets cosigned is a challenge for most people.

It seems that the community is fragmented in their little games. Each one have their own criteria on who they vote and who they didn't vote. People won't ever vote on content they think is good just because is against their ethos. I think that's fine, and making the votes more 'socialized' could also bring it's own bag of issues.

However, I think the experience between one platform and others is key for people that might just be moving into the ecosystem. One thing that we criticize was the way that content gets distributed. In my opinion, content should be based on your taste, if you have some specific taste like business, or sports, or politics, or videogames, it should be something that you can tell the platform from the get go, so that you can configure that content into your main feed.

Hive isn't very smart as far as algorithm goes, and sometimes that makes you get a lot of content that is irrelevant to you. Imagine a bunch of posts in Chinese, or Spanish, or flower pictures. It might be a big turnoff for you. Usually a more social network, like Facebook will show you people you follow first. So even if not everything is of your liking, you still get a lot of common interest based on your criteria to befriend them on the platform.

Ecency do show you a "following" feed as your main feed. However if you are a newcomer and you aren't follow anyone, having a 'for you' feed that compiles it based on the tags that you would like to follow can help get a better experience in the platform as far as a consumer. I understand communities do that, but they don't work unless you are following many of these ones.

This still is a work in progress as far as research goes, as there are other aspects of the platform including real time messaging. The use of the inbox could be something that can be used better, even the tip with a message could have a better roll on the user interface. If I want to send them a 'super chat' (as Youtube people might do), you feel obligated to at least reply to that message. Having a message marked with a $ sign, showing the person spend money on their comment might psychologically increase the participation between blogger and reader.

What other things have you thought about how to improve the communication and participation on the platforms?

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