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don't you want to use Hive, the new social media app with a profile field just for star signs? All the cis guys on Grindr who message you despite your profile indicating t4t are on there!
i don't know about you folks but the hive's vibes are immensely off. it's cursed, i tell ya.
something ain't right about it
my favorite part is how it's app-only so there's not even a gauzy veil over the fact that it basically exists to harvest data beyond what you choose to post on there
i've seen multiple people post about how their account was "disabled for suspicious activity" after creating a new account and someone in the comments helpfully pipes up with that the only way to solve it was "i just had to add my phone number to my accounts and it was all good, nothing wrong at all :)"
it's so obvious that it's just a data harvest lmao
yeah like. i have heard nothing about it before today and now i am hearing from everywhere people are talking about hive. is this like some kind of irl brainwashing hive and it just got to everyone today.
p sure they dropped big bucks on an viral marketing campaign. lotta people pushing Hive with terms like "influencer" or "PR/marketing" in their bios
Bc I chose LGBTQ+ as an interest, the first posts it recommended are unsolicited dick pics so yeah it’s pretty bad and I scooted right outta there
Apparently multiple users can have the same username as well, so even making an account to avoid squatting is useless. I have no idea what the appeal of Hive is - it looks like a superwholock of socmed apps thrown into a blender.
Hah, the star sign field is literally one of the 3 features judged important enough to get a little dedicated card right on the homepage. And not only app only, but took 3 years to put out an Android app.
This has already existed for three years??? I assumed this was a brand new operation that popped up to capitalize on Twitter melting down, given that I had never heard of it before two days ago.
their website is intensely & mesmerizingly generic 2022 vc backed startup snapstokgramlike. they have fucking microtransactions for playing music on your profile like that wasn't free and annoying on so many websites a decade+ ago. the fact that on top of all that they have an astrology field for your profile puts them squarely in the 'incites terrorist urges' category of capitalist ventures
it smelled weird from the design even just when i landed on their homepage
yeah this is one of those things I do not understand. mastodon is a stupid concept but at least I get why people want to make it work... hive is just a data harvester full of stan tweeters
It's so weird. I never heard of it two days ago, and now a lot of people made the jump (or at least made an account.). Cohost and Mastadon appeared more gradual, I feel.
I guess what the difference is, is that Hive does look a lot like Twitter on the surface. But I don't know if I'd want to subscribe to the exact same thing again, wouldn't it make the same mistakes further down the line too?
yeah that's exactly it, especially given the timing. they def waited for the big drama to be over
You are 100% right bc i checked their social media and their language feels over-familiar, like calling people/users "besties" like constantly, very targeted at zoomers and not in a good way i feel. Like no we are not Friends dear platform, i have to follow your ToS and me being there is a profit (in some ways) for you.
