RE: Ex Pfizer Science Chief: monetization of fake news
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Yeah man, I hate it too. The money that the deep dives group makes per post only motivates people to make more and more ridiculous claims.
I want this blockchain to be all about freedom of speech, but there should also be consequences if what you're saying is potentially dangerous.
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None of my friends join Hive because they see as a cult. A while ago there was a social network of Trump supporters that was spreading fake news and hate speech, that is how the see Hive at the moment....
Those groups are seizing the speech over here and making a ton of money while at it... I am afraid this can snowball and attract more of those people, while scaring away people that do real science and are actually knowledgeable.
Personally I see the only way to combat this is to make sure there is as much if not more content aimed at real science. There is the STEM group that will definitely help this out... but I completely agree... lots of people make the link between Freedom of Speech and Conspiracy Theories and when you look at platforms like Gab, Parlor, etc, it's easy to see why.
This is an interesting piece I've been thinking about. For one there is quite a bit of this kind of activity on traditional web2 social media already. On Hive there is significantly more of these groups due to the simple reason: the most extreme users will get deplatformed and thus come to Hive.
Disregarding the whole deplatform and free speech part of that. The main thing preventing mass user adoption is the complete lack of relevant content discovery and/or interest groups. Sure there is communities that offer some discoverability of more relevant content to a particular user, but they are off stratified and very segregated off from other communities. What I mean by that is if content is posted to one community that might be very relevant to another that said content will be shown to members of the other community unless it's reblogged/reposted (doesn't happen very often). This does not help the user find value in the content on the platform and often will result in them leaving even after they have gone through the tough onboarding process. Really, we need a much much better way to discovery/recommend content to users.
I don't go on Hive for entertainment value 9 times out of 10. I will usually find 1-2 good posts in a day that I will actually read through, but everything else goes to the wayside. The only reasons I use Hive on a daily basis are for News/Updates, Curation, the occasional interesting post, and that's about it.
Communities might evolve and make it better to find relevant and related content. I feel passive talking about that without having any idea on how to implement that, but maybe with time I can find how to more actively make it work.
But the issue with people getting deplatformed and coming here will be bigger with time, sadly. There is a reason they are deplatformed and there is a reason why the platforms that do that are big. More often than not they get banned for a good reason, like fake news or harmful content, and come here to do what they can’t do there. And again, the other social media are big for a reason.
Hive is a safe haven for those kind of shitposters and it kinda undermines the value here IMO