**Have you ever seen a project like Hive being broadcasted on platforms like coin-telegraph, coin desk, or any other online platforms rooting for hive except its core user’s? ** The straight answer is No.
Hive is winning and way ahead of most platforms that tag themselves web 3 today. Some are even promoted by some crypto news outlet I mentioned above.
All this in a plot to make people use them and also show that they are supporting such platforms, only for users to later get rug pulled or hacked in the process.
It could even be just founders making shitty decisions without getting the community involve, which makes it centralized as fuck.
I’ve heard about how Hive is being talked about on tv and radio stations in Ghana. It’s also a thing in Venezuela, I think these are what real platforms do instead of just promoting themselves on influential platforms without having anything real to offer users.
This is a great way to promote and get ourselves to the right people and the right audience.
Hive making lives better for people is what promotes Hive, not some media giant
When it comes to Journalism , especially with influential and popular news outlets, It’s all about getting eyeballs without doing a background check on the integrity of information and platforms they promote. Or let’s just say, “as long as they get paid, they don’t give a fuck”. They’ll hype you up to everyone without second thoughts. It’s what they are being paid for and it’s their job.
This is why it’s important to always do our research.
For me, I like to test things out first before recommending them to others. That way, I know what it is I’m talking about without sounding like I don’t know what I’m saying.
Personally, I don’t refer a token or a projects to people, if I’ve not yet done a proper background check on it. Because here in the crypto world, people are emotional, and they might blame you for introducing them to something that makes them lose money. And we can’t blame people because It’s easy to lose all your money here in the crypto space than any other market today. And no matter how you echo don’t invest more than you can afford to lose, some people always get greedy and wont listen to simple crypto rules and guidelines.
However, just as it’s easy to lose a chunk of money, it’s also easy to make life-changing money too, but only if you do your proper homework before you buy into any token or project. They may look like a good thing in the short term but turn out to be a shitty project/ token in the long run.
But once you know the risk involved. It’s either you risk it or leave it.
A few months ago, we saw how some web 3 platforms were being hyped all over the media. One was friend.app, which promised to be a safe heaven for web 3 users. Only to later be a shitty platform that was later hacked, leaving many users at a massive loss.
The recent one that I decide to try out is the new pop.app, which was a part of the cointelegraph accelerator program
In case you’ve heard about it or are already using it, you don’t have to follow my decision, because this is just my take on the app that’s meant to take over the social-fi. What is a big joke
I think here in the web3 space, it’s good to explore what’s going on around you and be able to onboard like-minded fellow from not only web 2 but also if possible from web 3 apps out there.
So after I got the news about the pop app, I made my way to the App Store and there it was, pop freaking social. Lol. The name sounds weird tbh, but I don’t mind because a lot sounds weird in the web 3 world and names are just a facade, what matters is the technology.
So what can pop app do?
spoiler alert - it doesn’t pop one bit
To my surprise, the interface kind of looks cool, with all of the fancy web 2 feel. In fact, that should’ve been a red flag if you know what I mean, but then, I had to see for myself how the platform functions. I’m the curious cat here, so there’s no going back now. let’s meow on…
I checked the wallet and profile(just navigating through everything), and it’s all good. But what really gave me a turn-off just as we’ve seen with many web 3 and web 2 platforms nowadays, is the content. Mehn, it’s all spammy and sh&t. It was like meta threads when they launched but without the vip users only clowns looking at another clown, people were only posting flowers, tweets from X, screenshots and whatever just comes to mind, all to be able to mine the damn $ppt token.
I was never there for the content anyway so I don’t mind.However, I noticed that the word count range was at maximum of 800 words. I don't know why that’s there, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone write more than 100 words and that was an announcement from the pop social page itself.
And this is where things get interesting because after spending around a week just going there to watch videos, post pictures, make comments and following people, I was able to amass around 24 $ppt.
It’s not a lot, but my experiment was to see if it’s a platform I can talk to people about or write about to my readers. And the only way to make sure its legit is to withdraw and then use it as a proof that it’s a place you can create content and earn something.
This is what web 3 is here to do.
It’s not here to make people like mark rich anymore, but to make the people who make mark rich, rich. And that’s the users. If everyone leaves Facebook today, which is impossible, then mark is going to have to go bankrupt, because no user would be clicking on ads, posting content or consuming comedy videos anymore. And when that happens, the platform becomes dead. It can happen to any platform, especially ones that don’t listen to the community or are controlled by a single entity without the involvement of the community.
Just take a look at steemit trending page and you’ll understand my point.
Just because a platform is called web 3 doesn’t mean it’ll be able to function like a web 3 app. In fact, pop app is far worse to be called a web 2.5 app. To cut the long story short, the announcement that I got was that token claim which was said to be claimable by 24 of this month won’t be possible anymore because they are making a shift in decision.
it’s a funny and crazy shift
You know what’s funny, it’s now only those who have a pop bit genesis NFT which is the founder's NFT that you have to buy is the only way users will be able to claim their NFT on 24th. And the crazy thing is that there’s only just one thousand of this NFT that’s available.
So that means only a thousand users will be able to claim their NFT on the 24 of this month.
Well, for me, I think that’s where I drop the hat and tell you that what decentralization entails is not exactly about airdropping tokens to a selected few or restricting access to users.
That’s not how web 3 functions and for this reason, pop app is officially thrown in the list of trashy web 3 platforms because this one doesn’t look like it’s going to thrive in the web 3 space. Quote me wrong if you like but this is my take.
What other web 3 platforms do you know or have heard about, but you haven’t tried or have tried before, let me know about them and how your experience has been so far compared to Hive. However, I think Hive is the only one that’s able to take the web 3 world to great heights because it has the community as its founders and marketers
until next time