There’s been a lot of heat on Twitter about Elon asking Twitter users to pay if they want to have and keep their verification badges. There's been a lot of misunderstanding on this topic for the most part, because it turns out there are actually two verification badges now. This is an attempt to still make the verification checkmark respected, because well, no one will care about it at some point if everyone can just get a verified checkmark for as low as $8 right? So the two different verification badges are the blue verification badge for twitter blue and a grey "official" badge for actual official or esteemed accounts like recognized organizations or persons. The blue check doesn't really command respect or anything because even I can go get it for $8.
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But this still doesn’t change the fact that no matter how much Twitter tries to stay relevant by adjusting and coming up with different ways to make users pay for it, web3 platforms built on blockchains like LeoFinance for example are still superior because of a lot of features.
Free to use
The most obvious reason you shouldn’t even pay attention to Twitter with other better alternatives like LeoFinance is the fact that LeoFinance is free to use. No one charges you as much as a cent for posting here. How many Twitter Blue subscriptions will you pay before your dumb ass finally realizes that everything you’re doing on Twitter is available here on LeoFinance absolutely free of charge. Everything is absolutely free. But on top of that, you know what else LeoFinance allows you to do that Twitter doesn’t?
Monetization of content
Yeah sure, Twitter allows you to advertise on their platform(for an $8 dollar monthly Twitter blue verification of course), but LeoFinance not only offers the same thing with no fees but even allows you to earn by just posting your content. You can actually earn by blogging on LeoFinance. How cool is that! But you know what’s even cooler? You earn in crypto! And not just one, but two tokens. You earn HIVE, the native token of Hive itself and you also earn the community token, LEO.
Decentralization
Every time Twitter is mentioned the past few days, I’m sure you’ll agree that a voice in your head mostly says “Arrrrh Elon”. Does the same thing happen when LeoFinance is the topic of discussion though? Whose name pops up in your head when you hear LeoFinance? It obviously is no one, but if there was someone, the reasoning would be something like maybe they were the ones that introduced you to Facebook, or they are a recognized body in the Lion Pride. Not that they’re some bossy owner of LeoFinance forcing deals we don’t stand for down our throats and proceeding to make fun of us by complaining about it.
No censorship
I’m pretty sure you heard about the issues of famous people like the former president of the US, Donald Trump, and social media star Andrew Tate being banned from not just Twitter but all social media platforms. Now I’m not going to try to defend them or anything, but who the hell decides who should have access to social media and who shouldn’t? What if one day, Elon wakes up and your meme about Elon turning evil pisses him off and he decides he doesn’t want you on HIS app anymore and believe me that is entirely possible.
You know where all that can not happen? Yes, right here! LeoFinance is no one person’s property or territory. The community is what makes us strong, and every cub has a voice. You don’t ever wake up one day and see notifications about how your account is terminated or anything like that. Hive and LeoFinance for that matter, is censorship resistant.
Honestly, I could go on and on about why you need to dump wack-ass Twitter and join the cool kids on LeoFinance, but if you’re here already, you probably know them all already, or at least most of them. So be proud, Lion, the pride is you and I, and the pride has got you and me.
LPUD
As I mentioned already, pride is strongest together. It is LPUD today and like we do on the 15th of every month, we power up LEO today as a community, as a pride. Before today’s LPUD, I had 147LP, after my power up of 155LEO, now I have 302LP. My end-of-year LP target is 350LP and we have a month and two more weeks until the year ends. Will I be able to hit it?
Lions, demon dragons try to test us. They come for our cubs. We fight with the power of a 100 dragons to each lion and on a united front, we power up that LEO, we go to war, we attack and we rooooooooar!
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