Twitter has been where I spend a lot of time nowadays.
Mainly to discuss politics, with a little fishing and gardening thrown in...
This morning when I went to sign on, I got a notice that my account had been disabled because I had shared child porn.
They said I could delete the post or appeal and wait on a reply.
It's not child porn, though it is quite disgusting, so I appealed.
Here's the pic I shared.
Here's what I see when I go to any twitter page...
Here's the email they sent.
Why Hive?
It is decentralized, so your stuff cannot just disappear.
At one time, I was gung ho about the idea.
Now, I'm on the fence.
I worked on building my Steem "empire" nearly everyday for over a year.
I stepped away when realizing a few things.
#1 Without investment, it just wasn't going to be a good return of $ to my time.
#2 Just as in real life, there was a small group with too much influence over the experience.
I did not like having to tiptoe around their feelings or ideas on how they thought the platform should work. The only explicit rules are those of the blockchain. However, there are/were many factions who made up their own own set of rules. Catch their attention and they could make you earn absolutely $0. I watched as they ran quite a few people off the platform because they refused to conform to their made up rules.
Then Steemit, Inc sold to a private investor who put in his own set of controllers.
So, several of the old "leaders" forked the project and created Hive.
It appears they have fixed a few "problems," but not enough for me to jump back in on this platform.
It appears they have removed some bad players, (some might call that censorship) or maybe they were players they simply could not learn to play with. I'm not going to expend the brainpower to try and figure that out.
Censorship
As I just learned with Twitter, they can shut down your account on a whim.
I would like to make one final point.
- Many get involved here because they think the blockchain is forever. After all, it's decentralized, so anyone can take it and "keep it alive."
- Kind of the same idea that sold BetaMax. Make a video and it will be around for many generations to watch. Can you play your BetaMax tapes? Can you find someone who can convert your tapes to something usable in today's digital world?
- This has been a great experiment and I wish it well. I truly hope my paltry wallet will someday be worth millions!
Updates about being kicked off Twitter...
I'll update this post as things change.