I'm Back AMA

What are your opinions on how Hive is developing?

I am very familiar with Levin's work and am following him closely. I fully plan on integrating his research into Swarm Theory! Swarm Theory is not intended to be the kind of "theory of everything" that throws out every other scientific theory. It's more of a synthesis of the state of the art for the purpose of giving people a framework for understanding any phenomena and taking practical actions. That's why I'm referring to it as a "practical theory of everything."

I don't actually remember exactly what I said in that video lol. Thanks for watching it though. The core postulate, I think, is unchanged (reality is constructed by nested swarms of information processing nodes). The rest of the video IIRC is more like a series of hunches, and I think I've moved quite far beyond that.

I published on hive, but using ecency right now. Probably use this going forward.

Because the masses don’t care!
It’s the sad truth.

NOSTR has even higher turnover than Hive and Dr nuts how much daily users have declined past couple years here too.

Because people don't care about those things. People are information processors (this is a central premise of Swarm Theory) so they go to where the information is. This is why network effect is a thing. The more people in a network, the more information is generated, the more valuable the network becomes to more people, who then join the network, and so on. This is why so much work with Steemit went into onboarding. Steemit, Inc. was literally losing money every time they onboarded a new user! There were so many challenges with creating a social network on a blockchain and Steemit was a classic example of the dangers of being "first"; you have to solve all the problems.

Thanks! Hmm, I don't think I've been around long enough to opine on that. I would bet that there are a lot of people around here who know better than me and are working their asses off trying to move things forward (like Hive account@crimsonclad).

Of course it's disappointing, though tbh it's not surprising. When I originally joined Steemit I saw the "user generated content" and "social media influencer" wave coming and thought that everyone would become a content creator to a degree. So I was half right haha. I also thought that Steem would be natural for integrating into the apps those people used. I eventually learned, though I didn't realize it for a long time, that this vision I had for Steem was quite at odds with the creators. They didn't design Steem to be integrated into apps other than Steemit, and only pivoted in that direction much later and very reluctantly. Many of the problems can be traced back to those early decisions IMO, but that doesn't mean Hive can't still be a valuable corner of the internet! But it is not my intent to get involved in the politics or drama of Hive. I'm here as a user and ideally nothing more.

I don't feel the same, but I think it's mostly due to basically not feeling like it's a cool new thing anymore. I like being an early adopter, so once things start to scale they feel a lot less exciting. What I tell people now is that I've never been less interested in crypto or more bullish. Institutional adoption has reached an inflection point. Mainstream adoption will come next. I still think it's an important technology, but it's just not as exciting to me as it used to be. I've actually been in the space since about 2010 and 15 years is a long time to be interested in anything!