We have a chance to start clean and really use proof of brain curation, meanwhile auto vote services are already activated and I urge you to not use them, at least for a short while, give honest curation a chance.
Using autovotes and calling this system proof of brain is extremely false, call it as it is proof of laziness. Give honest curation a chance, let's find that content organically. Go in deep, don't just write your own post and leave curation to few people to manage, we all must participate, witnesses get in there too.
I've been curating manually since before HF21 50:50 split, so that's 8 months now and I don't think I will ever switch to autovoting ever again. Autovoting feels bad, specially when your autovote lands on worthless content, don't let that happen on Hive, let's make this place better. Seeing that happening for almost 4 years on Steem is just getting way too old, people farming their autovotes day in and day out, I'm just not impressed with that shit.
Some curation tips for people, if you have decent amount of Hive Power don't just let it sit unused, if you search the new feed don't be scared to mute the spammers and shitposters, they are very easy to spot and just do it, it will make your life easier in the future curation. If you find consistently good posters give them a follow for days when you don't have the will to search trough new feed. Curate trough tags, but also switch it around, don't just use one tag every day.
My personal curation preferences are to curate content I find enjoyable, if I skip you it is nothing personal, I just found better content to curate that day. Not every day is perfect though, even I get lazy sometimes when I'm busy with other activities, or when I have internet issues like I had for the past couple of weeks.
As I created Blockchain Gaming community I will curate every post inside that community. Other posts where you will most likely see my name is Gaming posts, Crypto posts, Hive posts while it's fresh, Movie and TV Shows, Music, Art, rarely photos but sometimes I'll bite if I find good ones, basically if you post something decent there is a chance I'll be there.
Hive must be better, old practices that didn't work must slowly vanish or everything will be the same except the name. Do your part, don't autovote, try finding new people and show them that Hive is different.
If you give manual curation a chance you will get a Hive5 from me.