And is that a good thing?

Everyone that spent some time on Hive knows that content discovery for new content is almost nonexistent and search options are pretty bad. And that is not that great for the platform itself but is it maybe good for users?

A lot of you probably heard or watched The Social Dilemma, most of us here had some idea of what is going on, how it all works but some of the details you probably thought "really, they go that far to keep us on the platform?"

I was just listening the Joe Rogan podcast and the guest was Tristan Harris. He worked as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. And he was one of the people that spoke in The Social Dilemma.

One of the things they are talking about is how all this big social networks are trying to keep you on their platform as long as they can, (that is probably expected) how they use algorithms to show you recommended posts, groups, videos, and how those influence people. We all had those youtube lost in the rabbit hole moments, when you think "how the fuck did i ended up on this video and this topic?"

Hive has non of those things. So it is not doing its best to keep you on the platform. And that is maybe the reason of low retention of new users. But could that be an overall good thing for people? I know that i heated when instagram changed the feed from chronologically order of people posting to what ever instagram thinks i want to see. But they thought that will get me stay for longer on the app, and after a while, maybe it worked.

Hive probably needs to have some kind of help in content discovery, but maybe it should not be oriented to "we want to make you stay here as long as we can, so we will recommend you this crazy things" and maybe be oriented to "we want to show you more quality articles of the things that you were just looking at"?

I mean, i know nothing about this, but if frontends and developers even decide to do something about it, should it be done in the different way than what is the norm now?

Just a stupid rambling, have a nice day.