I wanted to curate and blog long enough to draw a fairly accurate conclusion. I have now, and there's one simple, fundamental problem with Hive right now.
Well, of course, inequality on Hive is through the roof, but I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about the dearth of content and content creators. Curating on Hive is like deja-vu, Groundhog Day, you know what I mean? Browsing through the new feed, filtering for shitposts, basically looking through every new post made on Hive, you'll come across the same authors over and over again. All attempts at finding new content creators end up in failure.
Which is not to say there are no new bloggers - there absolutely are, but it's far too rare for what is supposed to be a growing platform.
There are definitely a small handful of engaging content creators, but these people are easily found by autovote bots and curation projects, often taking home a majority of the reward pool.
There's nothing left here for curators who wish to look for new creators anymore.
So I guess I'll just keep voting for the same people over, and over, and over again, because there's no choice. At some point, I'll get tired of it all, and leave. Again.
Of course, this is a personal issue because my whole interest in curation lies in discovering undiscovered content and new authors.
So, why is this? Some will say "bear market", others will blame the change to 50%/50% split. Others still will suggest a lot of casual bloggers are still on Steem, while only crypto nerds know Hive even exists, so there seems to be a such an imbalance here. Then there's the elephant in the room, this is simply a bad platform with abysmal UX. It's probably a combination of all of the above.
But all I know is, something needs to be done about this. If not, might as well rebrand Hive to Circlejerk. I'll wait for the JERK token to pump.
