Hi, Interesting conversation.

What HIVE is lacking is the same thing Steem was lacking. Mass adoption. A way to ease the muggles into HIVE that makes sense to them. As it is, HIVE is wicked complicated to learn and use. When you get beyond keys, and RC and Powering up... then there is the what to post, what to even use HIVE for, how can I engage with my friends that are not on HIVE?

We are not going to see mass adoption for a while, but we CAN see mass engagement that will drive adoption and growth.

Yea, we all want HIVE to be as big as REDIT, or Wordpres.org or Medium. But how do you capture the attention of the masses? Well, give them something they know, give them something they are familiar with its function, and empower them to share.

I see D.Buzz as one of those gateways for mass engagement.

Moreover, You have to ask, What is HIVE for even? Steem monsters? Peaked? Appics? Drug wars?

I think censorship-resistant content in any form is the answer.

But Twitter is lame, its 2.0 it's big brother, f*ck it.

Yes, I agree with you. But, let's go on a trip together.

Let's look at the Arab Spring. Twitter helped that revolution.
Read (HERE). Activists used twitter as a way to drive knowledge and plan. Everyone had twitter on their phone.

Does everyone today have HIVE on their phones? No..

What if these tweets got Censored? well, No Arab spring.

As it is Twitter is starting to censor posts. Can it help in the next revolution that needs fast, short updates? Who knows. They may censor the next one. But messages could still get through.

How do you fix this?

By adding a #Hive to a tweet, In this case, the coordinators could back up their tweets. Then in future tweets, direct people to view the full conversation on D.Buzz, on HIVE, uncensored.

This is HUGE. In planing, change, revolution, and Engagement, AND Adoption of HIVE.

OH, but the SPAM in my news feed...

WTF, that is not an argument even.
Yea, some people will post BS spam about pooping, or cats, or "SUP"... Fu*K em... that is social media and you just have to get over it. We have to love the good and bad.

If you don't know how to tune out, block, or skip offense content... then you need to go back to Social Media school 101 or just stay off the internet. Like cats and baby memes, people will spam, bots will come. People will game the system.

But I like HIVE the way it is today...

If you think this HIVE is the final version of this blockchain, sad to say no, HIVE is going to grow and change... it must if we are to grow and become something great... I hope we see many Dapps building on top of HIVE. Dapps that alow posting form FB to HIVE and vice versa, I hope we see Instagram to HIVE, and I am happy to see Twitter to HIVE.

All this, This Drives MASS ENGAGEMENT, that Drives curiosity about discovery, and that onboarding NEW users and this all Drives the growth of OUR blockchain, forward.

Just my thoughts on the topic.

(*And yes, I do work with the D.Buzz team and am proud to say so)