I’m with you on your worries & feelings here. I worry most about this type of promotion at this particular stage of Hive’s development. The problem is we have 10,000~ active users. Should these “outreach” initiatives have “success” we could quickly quadruple that! Yay? Of course that means 80% of Hive’s content and overall culture are now Parler 2.0.
DLive has become synonymous with extremism and I find myself glad it jumped ship back in the Steemit days and isn’t Hive affiliated. Should Hive gain that type of classification at this early stage I’m sure it would survive, but I doubt it would ever grow beyond that community.
I’m keeping my eye on things and pondering how I might react if needed. Sell & leave? Actively recruit far left communities for “balance?” How comfortable do I feel downvoting violent rhetoric? Should I begin powering up an anonymous alt account specifically for that?
Going forward I believe Hive front ends & apps need to take a hard look at their moderation policies. The days of “show the whole blockchain” are coming to a close. It’s not good for discovery or community, and will be a legal nightmare for those teams. We literally cannot keep vile content off the blockchain, and if someone wants to make a Hive backed 8chan so be it. But if my content is surrounded and overwhelmed by that sort of shit on “mainstream” interfaces like hive.blog, PeakD, & Dapplr; I may be among the voices asking for App Store removals & ISP bans of the very spaces I consider my home online.
Happy to hear I'm not the only one out there! I agree that it's likely going to take a lot of refining moderation as they go. Hive is so young and while it has experienced some turbulence in its journey, I feel it has a long way to go before it reaches any type of platform maturity necessary to combat a poor public image.
Reaching out to Parler and capitol raider sympathizers definitely has me hovering over the power down button. I'll let it simmer a bit, but I am definitely on high alert.