In order words.
Web3.0 NOT SUPERIOR to Web2.0.
Tracking clearly has benefits and evidently people accept it's "evilness".
So then the image that she linked of HIVE: JOIN THE REVOLUTION is what actually becomes MOOT. Because going backwards IS NOT a better system.
All I'm staying with logic is that HIVE does a very poor job at keeping readers fed with content. As you pointed out. So much relies on individuals to make it happen. Again, NOT A SUPERIOR SYSTEM.
Just look at how many projects have come and gone where the respected individuals behind them thought they were going to be THE KILLER DAPP that would change growth.
AGAIN, DIDN'T HAPPEN because the system is essentially working against those endeavors.
HIVE does not need to feed you with reading content like web 2.0 websites, being fed continuous content does not make a system superior. Web 2.0 websites have to show you more content because that is what their revenue systems need, if you are not shown more content then there is no revenue for them.
HIVE does not have revenue and does not need revenue hence it does not need to show more content to you. It does not need you to consume content for the sake of consumption unlike Web 2.0.
In Web 2.0 consumer is the product, not the content, here the content is the product, not the consumer.
PeakD, hive.blog, and leofinance etc. are all interfaces for the same blockchain, and you are free to develop your own interface with the features you want, there is nothing stopping you. That is why WEB 3.0 is superior to WEB 2.0.
IF some menial links are the price for some entity to not track me, so be it. I don't need some algorithm to suggest me links, I am a big boy I can find content to read on my own.
You can create your own feed by following content creators, better yet you can follow tags. Not being familiar with the features of the interface or the platform is not an excuse to call it inferior.
Consuming content and traffic does not equal growth on Hive. That is your fundamental error. A user who does not anything but reads on Hive is essentially adding no value to the platform.
ATTENTION RETENTION is not an important measure on Web 3.0. IF an account is not transacting then it adds nothing of value to the platform. Even if they are spending their whole time reading here if they do not transact it does not matter.
I repeat, ATTENTION RETENTION does not matter, if the user does not transact on the blockchain. WEB TRAFFIC does not matter if it does not end up in a transaction on the blockchain.
Those measures are important for a web 2.0 site, but not a web 3.0 system. YOU are thinking with a web 2.0 mindset, on a web 3.0 platform. THAT is your problem.
ATTENTION RETENTION and TRAFFIC are important measures to Advertisers on WEB 2.0. They are the revenue stream of a website, that is the reason why they are important on Web 2.0.
There are no advertisers on HIVE, so those measures are unimportant. And you have trouble understanding basic if statements it seems like. IF a user only reads and does not transact they do not matter, what matters if they read and transact. SEE there is a whole fucking difference there. THAT is the important measure, that is how you measure if the platform is growing.
A user not transacting means; they do not vote, they do not comment, they do not engage in any way with the blockchain, they just read. When you are voting it is a transaction, when you comment it is a transaction, when you post it is a transaction.
Tell me, if a person opens up peakd every day, reads tons of posts every day but never opens a wallet, do they add value to the platform?