It's not the money.
It's not the people. It's not the crypto. It's not even the potential for small fame or wealth. Although those sweeten the experience, you can gain friends and money and crypto and fame anywhere. In fact, I'd venture to say that you have to work harder here for those things than anywhere else.
It's the blockchain.
Creating new limits. Bucking the system. New economy. New politics. New ideas. New inventions. This is how life was meant to be. Sovereign. Limitless. Abundant. This is why people come here. They FEEL it. The possibility...it's in the marrow of the place.
Blockchain means no rules.
No more constructs. We get to breathe. When we log on, we feel close to something that feels a lot like raw potential. No more
- Be this. Say this. Wear this. Drink this. Think this. Do this. Spend this. Buy this. Vote for this. Be mad about this. Be tolerant of this. Cancel this. Eat this. Don't eat this. Drive this. Have this job. Have this wife. Like this music. Like this ideology.
Instead, we have:
- Build something. Be something. Create something. Feel something. Say something. Do something. Whatever you want - you can make it happen here.
Blockchain means decentralized.
We're done with corporations and governments determining what our economy and sociology looks like. Here we each have a say. And we can branch off and do whatever the fuck we want if we don't like what someone else is doing.
We're still lopsided, but voices feel heard here. No oligarchy taking over every aspect of our waking life and limb.
This is how life SHOULD be!
Blockchain means sovereignty.
We shake the dust off from the predictable, shallow, pre-determined world around us that has been coded into us since birth from the entities and organizations that want a piece of our souls.
We bow to no one here but our own selves, our own creativity, our own dreams and visions of how the world should look
We get to rewrite our entire world in a block of code
We explore new frontiers, push the limits, discover what it means to be free
I didn't know kings could chew gum. Or that gum existed in king time times.
hahaha well, I came to be king and chew gum, and I am all out of gum :)
You can have some of mine.
As long as it hasn't spent the night on your bedpost of your four post bed, where you halo is supposed to hang, according to Smashmouth.
Welcome back, littlescribe! I totally relate !
It's the sovereignty. Always has been. Thanks for the votes and reblogs.
Great post. !BBH
@littlescribe! @fiberfrau likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @fiberfrau. (3/20)
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Fundamentally, I'm here because I want my writing to last for eternity. A blockchain like this - it will never go away. That's for sure. There will always be at least one server hosting this somewhere for ever, even if just an archive.org sorta thing - I'm sure my writing will last a long time.
But as it is, I only use it as a mere library to store my writings. Otherwise, I feel rather scared to publish anything as long as Hivewatchers is still here. They just make me feel uncomfortable with ... the fact that they literally exist whatsoever and have positioned themselves as they have. Darkest dystopia.
As far as I can tell, Hivewatchers seems useful with regards to spam and plagiarism and illegal use of photos. If your content is original, what worries you about them?
I fear them simply for their power.
They have not been voted for. They have only money, and that is the source of their power.
Their positioning and power appear as if the antithesis to the concept of a decentralized blockchain.
Good people do good things with money. Bad people do bad things with money. What a better way to find out what kind of person you are than if you have money.
Ahh that makes me feel like I have to wait until they do something bad to stop them?! The issue is the aspect of positioning; do we bring Hitler to court BEFORE the holocaust? Or after?
He's only guilty AFTER -
...but...
Well, so here's the thing. This ENTIRE platform is a bit of a "pay to play" konundrum. So if you prohibit this guy, then you have to prohibit everyone from doing anything that affects the platform above a certain vote value.
Votes have just as much effect on the outcome as censorship does. It amounts to the same thing. At least these people have some method to the madness that appears to have an overall general effort to improve the ecology here and level the playing field a little bit.
Versus mamby pamby upvotes and downvotes that are unwarranted, or arbitrary at best. SOME level of governance should be agreed upon at least by witnesses, and if not witnesses, someone who can have the effect of the conglomerate.
In summary...I'm not entirely opposed to them.