I must admit, I like the hive community a lot. The hive community to me is one big bundle of fun. I say that because right now we all exist in somewhat harmony. A good 80% of us have a basic level of synergy and the want to see hive succeed in some form.
Of course there are disagreements. No harmonious relationships are without their disagreements. I love my wife to bits but every day we argue with each other over something or other. Disagreements, arguing, disputes, the nature of this is at the core we care. If no-one said anything and were happy to take their cut and run, then perhaps I'd be worried.
The calls and shouts that hive is dead, I'm not inclined to believe. As more and more dapps and apps come here slowly but surely we will eventually see a change in the sentiment for hive. The upcoming market is one fine example -- I'm sure we will attract thousands of new users and a whole array of excited projects will start amongst it all. I've been on hive for 8 years now and it's never different.
I like hive because you get to choose the content you see and nothing is signal boosted or forced into your eyes. I get to have a nice array off all the artists I have curated over the last 8 years in my feed. It's lovely.
But for traditional social media (or web2) it's quite the different story. Bots and "owners" can pick and choose which stories to thrust into the limelight. We are not the abitrars of the content we want to see -- and as good as Elon Musk is when it comes to x, he still signal boosts things he wants the world to see.
The single most worrying thing with web2 is that we are at the behest of a few people dictating what content they want us to watch and what content they do not want us to see. You could argue that this is the same on hive but you absolutely have a choice on hive. You could buy stake in Hive and force your own choices to the top. In fact anyone can do this who invests enough in the system.
I call this the single point of failure. And I don't think many people will eventually come to understand this because most people are followers and not leaders. I'd make the case that you have to have some experience somewhere in your life of leadership to truly understand the theory of single point failure. Which basically means that something is only as strong as its leader.
What happens if Elon Musk dies? Of course Twitter has too much infrastructure to go phut in the wind, but what can be done to your enemies you have to be prepared for it to be done to you -- just as we saw pre Elon on twitter. A leftist authoritarian hell-hole which some may argue is now the next coming of the Third Reich.
Regardless of my own opinions on the matter this is what makes hive strong. What happens if Blocktrades dies? Well, not a lot really, we continue as normal, our ethos doesn't change; maybe we get a little worried about the future, but there is no real emergency of funds, or anything like that. We continue to exist as a community and build and so on. Nothing changes.
And leadership will come and go over time. Witnesses will rise and fall, and new people will pop on and pop off, but hive will remain in this growth phase for quite some time.
That's why I love hive.
That's why I'm proud to call myself a Hivean.
