Agree but all these freedom of speech networks fall again. I'm sure gettlr will not stay 1 year +
The Donald trump one is still here? I don't know. Maybe we see a split into many networks and every network will have some users but in the end, they use the mainstream ones.
I think hive is not ready for mass onboarding at all.
The first wave can maybe get handled. But If we grow exponentially, the disappointment of getting a wallet would be very high.
Also, educating " don't self vote and every other unwritten hive rule" would annoy people more than they would enjoy.
I also think the government token is a really bad one for main rewarding.
L2 tokens must be cheap and easy to create + should be easy to implement in existing forums and communities outside of hive. That would be the trojan horse.
Tokenize the internet is the best marketing. But hive is not ready for it.
Promoting hive on Twitter and co can look like promoting a "shitcoin".
I would love more to promote a working product besides the coin.
And I know we have working ones, but they can't scale 100x + very easily without hammering out massive problems.
I think Hive can scale pretty bigly without much problem tbh.
As others have pointed out (and I have now edited the top of this post) - Gettr's Terms of Service predictably make clear that they aren't really a free speech site at all. They will delete anything they define as 'subjectively objectionable'. lol
I don't say gettlr is at any point better.
The scale problem is a housemade problem, reducing the cost to 0,1 hive.
Fear for name squatting? make a reduced price for prefix/ suffix wallet names.
like: leo.username or vyb.username. With that unlimited names are available. No reason to make them expensive.
I brought this up a long time ago, also got some attention. But nobody cares.
If you read the post above, it clearly was not about Gettr being better, or even Gettr at all, but the simple fact that Hive's primary selling point, and the niche it best fits, is as a freedom of speech platform - a place for people to come who are being censored off the other platforms.
Unfortunately, those in charge of Hive have made sure, time and again, to do everything they can to drive away content creators, to punish creators putting out content that actually matters, and keeping the chain tiny, practically un-noticed, and always bleeding users.
I never say that. Its a bullshit platform like perler and the other ones before.
I dont think that's the main reason.
hive is complex.
you cant recover passwords ( and I have some forums, I can tell you people love recovering passwords).
Hive rules are random
Personally, for me, i have some projects for years in mind for hive. But onboarding is too expensive, so I wait.
Also a reason nobody wants to build here ( with own money). Because you pay always twice.
marketing costs + onboarding costs.
The points you are making here are all valid and are ones that can and should be addressed through community collaboration - but doing that requires those with minimal stake to be rewarded for doing so and for those with more stake to be willing to use it.
I think some large stakeholders want the power they get from the HP but without the responsibility it gives them for improving the system. The bottom line is that without large stakeholders who are oriented to product design/development, we will mostly just get decisions that benefit only short term gains for them. There absolutely are some larger stakeholder with system development in mind, but there is a gap between that and the reality of what the product requires in order to thrive.
At present it is mostly the layer 2 projects that seem likely to improve onboarding but we aren't quite there yet. Alternatively, the community can work together with a shared vision to systematically identify and solve the problems - with stakeholders rewarding them along the way. Presently we lack coherence and focus as a group to achieve this and so it isn't really happening.
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