Now we have made the transition with a few bumps and bangs along the way from steem to hive, what was decentralized, is now centralized and back to decentralized again it's important to frame some of the wins of the previous blockchain in terms of groups, teams and tribes and the cults that form around spaces on blockchain technologies.
It's obvious (i think) to many that in many ways the forking of steem to hive was to fight for decentralization, to phase our a bad actor, to maintain a status quo, to keep the legacy of the last 3/4 years in the same place as before minus a few of the issues that it contained.
I think that was smart.
But it did show up a lot of issues and weaknesses for me moving forward as what happens with all platforms and technologies when it get's a rebrand or a rehash of what it was before. You start to see the cult of the "WE" underneath and it's obvious where your position is.
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Now that we have a new rehash, without all the bullshit will HIVE be able to be different than STEEM, has anything really changed for the end user like myself that wants to run their own community inside of the existing decentralized technology.
Not really.
I mean there is more reason to use HIVE over STEEM by a mile, the fact that there is far too much damage and drama, centralization on the other chain and yet here we have the ninja mine ripped out and put into development and also a cult group of hundreds who are maintaining their pre-steem plans of world domination.
that's a great place to work inside of, because you know they are gonna do everything to optimize and secure the chain they run.
It makes communities, let's call them HIVE communities make more sense, a bunch of admin/mod worker bees at the top of the hive flocking around the QUEEN (let's call that the objective) and everyone get's a slide of the profits (let's say we are selling honey)
I always wanted to make a group of people i could rely on as a hive community that ran alongside the dunbar number, that's why i made the 150 community, the first 150 people who got along, worked together on similar things, shared good practice, had regular video chat meetings, did content together, made collobrative pieces and generally who you could call friends eventually.
Think of it like steemfest, inside of steemfest, you could have little fractured rooms of the main event for people in the different hives to get together, maybe even events or food gathers with the people in your hive that you know you get along with, a hive inside another hive -- community groups you want to be in, that you can flit between even.
I still have this vision and as i start to ramp up my skillshare and udemy courses i'm going to make a point of introducting blockchain technology to my students but not the platform, instead just use HIVE as the concept to make it easier to understand.
It's going to be much easier than STEEM every was -- the notion of worker beers, honey and hives is a lot easier for most to understand and once they scratch the surface they can go deeper than the hive group and discover all the dapps and things that can operate on blockchain level, heck, they might even go off and build their own community groups too.
That's exciting.
Now that the isolated nerds of the world are going stir crazy at home a bunch of people are discovering video chat for the first time and coming to the conclusion that actually all their work might eventually be done that way if we are behind desks for the next year.
I see this as an opportunity to build out our HIVE community groups.
I hope you do too.
cheers!
phil
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worker bee(r), adjunct matrix 7-11