Ah the short sightedness of it all. But so it has always been, so it shall probably be.
Still gonna build my fun toys here like HiveStreams.live and run my team witness @pollenation with Enginewitty and participate. But for me, its a place to live and a community of smart people to commune with. So it would work without the money for me, all other things being equal. I don't like seeing "our" money being wasted though, on silly things that don't bring us more fun, or more people or more financial stability, but rather cost us all by taking money from things that COULD maybe bring those things via the sometimes very ridiculous DHF proposals we've seen. Like rally cars and copy-cat card games that cant make themselves profitable to begin with.
Ugh.
As it does for me, as I do not use Hive as money. I am here for free speech, which is existentially necessary to our survival, and becomes moreso every day.
Do you live stream your free speech? Be a lot cooler if ya did :) Only 5 days old, be in on the ground floor! https://hivestreams.live :) My baybee - been working on it for about two weeks, quite literally around the clock. More and more features and improvements coming daily!
I speak here pseudonymously, because my kids have been shot at, I have been beaten in the street, been stripped of everything I ever owned, and worse, because of my IRL actions to illuminate corruption of local government and police.
Put up a slide show or a meme and talk over it, you can chat live with the listening audience, and they love that (proved it when I built MSP Waves in 2017 for PAL) even if you use video as a radio!
The radio could kill the video star!
I will have a look.
Thanks!
I had a quick look, and it appears to be a well designed and brilliant site. As a result of my experiences however, I have neither a mic nor a camera on my computer, and I do not use my phone for any data of any kind other than phone calls or text - and I am confident that is surveilled, so I do not carry a phone outside the home.
I have actually done everything I can to prevent video or audio from being exfiltrated from my home. While I might be able to stream images and live text, enabling real time chatting regarding items of topical interest, and your new site appears to be a real banger - congrats on it, because it is very much what Hive needs IMHO - I am just not your target content producer market due to extraordinary circumstances of my personal life.
All that being said, I confess to being extremely tempted to revise my efforts to secure my and my loved ones' safety specifically because of the site you have built and it's apparent utility in enabling forthright speech to be published.
No, and I mean this sincerely... Thank YOU!
With all your remarks and intentions, by all means please read this the next time you have ten minutes in the pooper room (based on peakd's reading time estimate lololol)
https://peakd.com/hivestreamslive/@sircork/the-hivestreamslive-manifesto