Update 23 April 2023: Continuing my boycott indefinitely. Find me as tdctunes on most Web 2.0 places. Sadly, I trust the big corporates to police their platforms more than I trust the self appointed
Original post:
Specifically: I am protesting about the continued blacklisting of
That being said there are plenty of other examples of people making minor (or subjective) infringements where the blacklisting punishment was way out of proportion.
IMPORTANT: I will not be reading or replying to any comments on this post.
This is NOT about getting into the pros and cons or starting a discussion. There are PLENTY of those already on the chain.
If you are interested in discussing this topic you could do worse than start with this post:
@doze/hivewatchers-drama-ai-drama
and my comment on it which makes my position clear:
@tdctunes/re-doze-rr48om
But there are many many others.
I do however want to pull out a quote from my comment above to highlight it though in case you don't read it and think I'm 100% against 
It's probably better to have something like Hive Watchers than not have them (although some of the abuses can and are dealt with by not voting/down voting)
Currently there are quite a few mistakes or overly harsh treatments from HW (I've seen several good people driven away)
I get that it's a hard, thankless job but I think they should err on the side of assuming innocence.
But either way yes - the real problem is too much power in too few accounts.
Ok so what does 'Boycotting' mean exactly:
- I've blacked out my profile picture and background
- I will not be posting anything, commenting, reading or even opening anything on Hive.
- I will not be playing
or using any other apps based on Hive.
- I will not be promoting Hive on my Twitter or anywhere else.
- I will not be going into ANY Discord servers for Hive based communities
For the next month then you can find me:
- On Twitch every Monday night at 9pm UK time as usual
- My radio show highlights will be uploaded to my Youtube channel INSTEAD of
where I normally post them.
- For shorter form content I'll go back to posting more on my Instagram and Twitter rather than
I'm tdctunes everywhere - not hard to find.
Is this going to make a difference?
I doubt it. I'm under no illusions that my 350 follower, 68 rep account going dark for a month will make a difference but it's important to me to make whatever stand that I can. However, if anyone does feel the same way as me you are welcome to join and do the same thing.
Again just to be crystal clear:
Please don't bother replying to this post, I won't be checking it or replying to any comments.
If contrary to my expectations 
Otherwise have a great month and if I don't see you on good old web 2.0 I'll see you on 13th April.
