The News
Space troll Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter. He has the money for it, but what would he do for it?
An old 'friend' of the Hive community had to get in on this.
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What could either of them do with Twitter? Sun would want it on his blockchain whilst Elon may just want more freedom to do what he wants. This may be an opportunity to make more people aware that there are alternative platforms and Hive is one of them.
Many more people have added reviews of Hive on Sourceforge, so it features more promintently. @traciyork has posted about how to help.
Friday Follows
- German musician @cherilyn, who is a friend of @ravenmus1c, has joined Hive. Check out here music.
- @drwatson has been sharing pages of his horror comic with us for years and has a contest where you could be drawn by his artist.
- @epodcaster is one of those doing daily posts all month for #hiveblopomo. She has some interesting thoughts on social media from long experience.
- Runner @consciouscat became a minnow this week. It is always great to see people levelling up and gaining more power to do good on Hive.
- Another runner is @ervin-lemark who just ran a good marathon. These people inspire me.
These people get a share of the post rewards.
The Doghouse
Another person is finding that upvoting all your own comments is not a good strategy. People are checking for that. @katharsisdrill has created a handy graphic to get the point across.
We all earn on Hive at the whims of the community. If you are seen as being selfish then your rewards can be reduced. You can earn by voting for others, so why not do that? They may return the favour. Just be sure to be sincere with your voting as people also check for 'voting circles' that are just there to generate income for a small group. Spread the benefits around.
The End
It is a long weekend in the UK and I do intend to spend a fair bit of it away from the keyboard. I am thinking about another 'crypto walk' where I will invite people to join me for a stroll in the country whilst talking about some of our favourite topics. Pubs may be involved too. Where I live is easily reached by train from London. I may just wait until the weather is more reliable, but stay tuned!
Hive five!
Ah, @steevc, thank you for the shout out and the future payout share! And even more than both of those, thank you for role modelling really "good" (fabulous/useful/sustainable/helpful/forward thinking) behaviour. You're helping me see the possibilities of what community-minded leaders can look like on Web 3.0 and beyond. !LUV
Thanks alot for the shoutout of my friend CheriLyn!!
It's a must :)
Sorry, I won't join you. I have a long weekend of snow & alpine skiing combined with water & running around the lake and having a great time n the company of friends and their families. Private pubs will be involved too :)
It's really hot here today. I won't be skiing for a while. Maybe next winter.
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BEER.I think they declined the offer from Musk. Now I see he is posting something to the effect of "I guess we just need to build it ourself". Good news is Leo is already working on something like that, so hopefully they can get their product out before him.
Will people trust something that he builds? This is different to building cars.
I think they will just because it is him. We have already seen how much influence he has.
Musk also tried the "If you don't take my offer I guess I'll dump my shares." This of course after he pumped the stock by talking about a take over. Would love to see the SEC crack him on the knuckles for such obvious stock manipulation.
He's already been in trouble over such things. He really doesn't have to worry about making money so he can troll the markets.
He is in a different world than the rest of us. Not sure what the SEC could do to him... maybe prison time would catch his attention.
Imagine old Tron Boy trying to get some attention. Lol.
Enjoy the away from keyboard time! Nothing beats it.
I had to fix a gate that broke in the wind recently. Scorchio out there!
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I would like to see less censorship and more freedom of speech restored to social media platforms. If Elon can do that for twitter, that would expand its potential and I would welcome that.
Do you trust him to do that? Any platform controlled by one person is liable to have some form of control.
I don't know if I trust him, but I would trust him sooner than a bunch of censorship globalists who might try to control twitter.
What do you class as a 'globalist'? Those who run social sites tend to have to take orders from whatever country they are based in. Most Twitter users are not in the US.
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This I believe is part of what is keeping the blockchain to progress because I believe it's a platform that rise by lifting others and by doing so your not only helping others buy yourself as well.
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