People are often never interested in the mechanizations of what goes behind something. The story of a simple pencil is remarkable but one that so many could care less to discover. The different groups that take the raw material, process it, ship it and ultimately produce it into a pencil are beyond so many people. Similar to Hive, people don't care how you get to a post or point if they dislike it, they downvote it and move on instead of just giving someone their space.

I will say though that the incentive to produce positive content on here and good interactions is what I think makes this place unique. I didn't really think of it that way until you brought up the other ilk of social media places and how being free, and no economic incentive, they have little reason to do anything positive.

Folks are always looking for rewards on Hive which I think is perfectly fine, we have thousands of people on here with decent stake so we can reward users for what we find useful and interesting. That translates, thankfully, to minimal (but still present of course) posts of people being assholes and calling out others and stuff. Someone might get rewarded for it once but make three or four of those and you suck the energy out of your own room for a while and people ignore you. In some ways that's good and bad of course but we don't need more negative emotions on the internet, there's so much of it on the mainstream platforms!