What is interesting is that Hive is already operating in this manner. We see the ability to form a community at the base layer. It is inherent in the system. This is going to open up a host of different possibilities as more of the infrastructure gets built out.

There are many communities on Hive, yet the comments under posts are still rare. Nowadays the average number of comments per post is 2-3, but most of those comments are bot comments. This is mostly the result of automated curation. This post is a perfect example. Currently there are 527 upvotes, but there are absolutely no comments. However there are 3 reblogs, which are probably manual.

Either way, writing anything meaningful in a post feels like time wasting, because there are no real human interaction on most of the posts.

What would happen to this platform, if there would be no automated curation? Probably there would be either more real, human interaction, or less activity in general. What is your opinion about this?