Is It Facebook? Is It Instagram? Is It Twitter (X)? .:. Walk & Talk Series

Do you have problems to explain Hive to others? What is your "selling point" when you try to do it? Is it a blockchain side of it, free transactions, 3-second transactions, DPOS blockchain, etc.? Or you are selling it as a Web3 platform where you OWN your content? Or do you try to onboard people on some of the games that are run on HIVE? The "method" that you choose depends on what YOUR main use case of HIVE... I'm not sure that most people are using this platform for blogging as I know that I came here because of Splinterlands and I heard that many others did the same... But, let's focus on the blogging side today...

I remember that the "selling" point of this blockchain was comparing it with REDDIT, or at least, that was the initial idea... But, as time passed by, people developed different dApps and different frontends... So, from REDDIT, it became Blogger, and after that Facebook... As time passed by, the popular Liketu frontend was created and HIVE became the Web3 version of Instagram, after that, it became Web3 Twitter with LeoThreads and Ecency Waves...

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So, which one of those is HIVE? I would say that it is ALL that and MORE than all... The potential is limitless and who knows what will be built here tomorrow... As it is ALL that, what are the TOS (Terms Of Service), what are the rules for creating content on HIVE? In addition, HIVE is a decentralized social media network... There is no CEO who will write down the TOS!

For some reason, the concept of DECENTRALIZATION became a huge problem for many people... While mainstream media, governments, and rulers want to "enslave" us for decades and centuries, or by force, or by propaganda, it's hard to embrace all this FREEDOM that decentralization offers! In some way, we have a problem now that we can do "whatever we want"... We are unprepared for that! As we were indoctrinated to have RULES for everything, the first thing that people ask when they come here is asking for RULES!

There are no RULES on HIVE! I know that many will disagree with that, but it is like that... There are no rules on the blockchain level on what kind of content you can, or can't write, how long posts you should write, what should be the topic, etc. For the Liketu app, it's normal that you post a picture and a short text, for LeoThreads the point is that you write short posts...

You can say that those are RULES, but I would rather say that those are more GUIDELINES for those specific dApps, but NOT for the HIVE in general! We have communities on HIVE and every community has its own rules, which is okay... If you are not following those rules, you can be MUTED in the community, but still, your content is in the HIVE blockchain... Even if your content is downvoted to zero, it is still on the chain and nobody can remove it except you (even if you can't, but that's another topic 🙂)...

When people talk about HIVE RULES, many people think about the rules that some CURATION projects are "created"... For example, some curation projects will not upvote a post if it has less than 500 words, if the author doesn't engage, if there is no photo in the post, etc. But again, those are rules for THAT SPECIFIC project and if you are not following those guidelines you will not be curated by that project, but your content is still visible on the chain and can be curated by someone else!

There is no right or wrong way of doing things (except some ethics and common human rules and rights, of course)... HIVE is an ever-growing system or organism... It is changing, growing, and evolving, and what was "the rule" 3-4 years ago, it is not anymore... As it WASN'T a RULE at all... 🙂

I could write about this a lot, a lot more, but it is a nice start for a dialogue... We need to talk about these topics, we need to have more tolerance for new ideas and new ways to grow, and we should always have an open mind to them!

Don't forget to check out the video where I have covered some additional thoughts and don't hesitate to share your opinion in the comment section!

Thank you for your time,

~ph~

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