You have a good point, but face it: It's easy to talk about "Who should write the official news" when a person's got a $10,000+ value Hive account. And even better: They might already be ingrained, connected, and well-known around the blockchain.
Small potatoes who COULD write those articles are sorta living on the sub-suburbs of Decentralized City. There's really no point in writing a press release on my own account because I would feel like a total buttlicker to just write some press release for a website I'm just a "user" of.
Akin to a person writing a press release for Facebook and posting it on their feed.
Wow, 4 likes, huh? I m p r e s s i v e.
I'm just not "involved" enough to bother without feeling like I'd only be doing it to get popular. I'd rather just focus on my poetry and essays. And yes, "involved" in a DPoS blockchain means that I lack the money or real-human-followers to feel like anything I do here actually matters.
If I wanted to play politics and lick butts to get ahead, there are loads of places better than this, right? Like typical corporate. Here, I'd like to think that I can get ahead purely on the merit of my writing and ideas. But I don't think I'll be making a living wage anytime soon, hm?
Spinning negatives into a positive isn't all wrong, and technically, I do agree with most of your points. But there's just a nihilistic aspect to a blockchain that creates such gulfs between rich and poor. Either your vote is worth enough money that people lick your butt, or you want someone else's vote, so you lick theirs. There's really not much middle-ground.
But if ever there is, I'll be sticking around to see it.
I'm a little distracted by the number of times you use that phrase.
Honestly, so am I.
Hahahah, sorry.
At a certain point, I sorta just shrugged and went with it.
Uh, should I edit my post to be ...cleaner?
It's on the blockchain forever. 😂
I have no regrets.
You are a stakeholder, not just a user! That's the whole point of Hive!
Everyone "owns" at least a small part of the platform, unlike with FB where you are the product.
Yeah, I know, but still, that's the same as being a stakeholder in Facebook stocks or something.
There's still a difference between owning stake and being part of the "High Council."
However, unlike a dirty thing like Facebook, there's still the possibility to reach near the top here. That's why I'm here and write here exclusively!
Wanna join me to do something about this? you seem to be in the same place I am.😎😅
Sure, what do you have in mind?
Since I have already experimented in a quite good successful way, sharing an account posting key to in group collaborate with writing, and posting, I would say, that we can get a couple people around and collaborate on that behalf.
Then we can either use, something like discord or not, to review what each contributes with and correct/comment about what each of us write, until we are all satisfied and then post about.
Rewards wise, I am not sure what to think about. Maybe distributed amount everyone that collaborates, personal accounts. We are in reality trying to bring more clarity/transparency to the community.
We (I can if that's needed) create an account for that matter tonight and we can experiment by talking about what means for an average user, the changes on HF25 fork for example to start with. What you think? If you prefer to have an offline discussion, reach me on Discord.
That's what the beneficiaries aspect is there for too.
yep, but when you have posting key, anyone can change that before posting, so its a gentleman's agreement cooperating using the posting key. So, I have always mixed feelings because I wanna use the as much as possible the blockchain features.
As a last resort, beneficiaries could be controlled using multi-sig, but that would be very hard to work with things. So, sharing accounts is actually something that was never really thought about at this level. Usually what happens between everyone is for people to delegate authority and then there is no need to manually share the private posting key.
Anyhow, I happy to give it a try, since with @atexoras.pub until now its working quite well.