The low barrier to entry to creating content on Hive is worth celebrating.

This. This is 70% of the point that I want to make as well. Whether we are serious, hobbyist, just like the social aspect/people. Hive provides the place just as youtube and even easier way to make something here than if they were starting out on youtube. When it comes to the content consumer, I believe they come from quality that the platform offers; We should be asking ourselves with that question. Do we want the place just to stay niche or scale up? if we stay niche, then this is what we have but scaling up, that needs some work. Meaning we should be accepting some dumb shit content too.

I think youtube has the most similar content mechanism compared to other web2 platform. Like instagram, I wouldn't say I'd compare hive to instagram in terms of content quality and purpose. Thanks for commenting!