@achim03, I think curation matters, but the question of "what has value" is almost impossible to answer.
But Web 2.0 does teach us something. Almost nobody is online simply "to be online," they are there in pursuit of something; usually something niche or interest/hobby related... whether it's as broad as gaming, or as narrow as stamp collecting.
Few people are "loyal to FACEBOOK" but many people are loyal to their niche interest group/page on Facebook.
Whether we label Hive as Web 3.0 or something else, I don't think the bones of what we do here is all that different. Which is to say, is asking "what's valuable to Hive?" even the right question? Or should we be asking what attracts people to a particular community?
I periodically run into discussions about Splinterlands, in the context of why so many Splinterlands players/stake holders are not active on Hive. And yet? Splinterlands is that rare Hive property that drew huge numbers of users externally. But not because they were interested in Hive, because they were interested in the game. Referring back up to what I said above, Splinterlands is a community; an interest. It's its own thing first, and a Hive thing second.
Part of Hive's problem/challenge is that it has this rather finite audience. Unlike a YouTube or a Tiktok or an IG post, you can't get 200,000 upvotes here because we have too many virtual "fences" between ourselves and Greater Cyberspace. If I see something I really like on virtually any other platform, it's about a 15-second process to have an account via "log in with Google/X/Facebook" and I can leave some form of thumbs up/engagement. Can't do that here. As such, there's little incentive to go in search of external readership... aka new Hive members.
I realize this is a little off-topic from your post, but but I feel it matters, in terms of answering the question of "what's good for Hive?"
Indeed, rewards may attract people and be a great incentive, but that doesn't really amount to anything unless Hive is placed in front of thousands or even millions of new eyeballs.
Sorry to write an entire blog on your post, but I feel this is an important discussion to be had... and without the usual heated finger-pointing.
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