How events in Kazakhstan prove the need for Bastyon! Video from Kazakhstan user...
Dear Bastyonknights and Bastyonettes,
The original thesis of building Bastyon as a completely blockchain based social platform like Bitcoin was based on conviction that censorship will go much further and ultimately will go to the domain level. That is why the core part of Bastyon is the desktop app, which does not depend on domains, but speaks directly to the nodes around the world.
Thus, the desktop app can bypass most types of severe censorship. Events in Kazakhstan provided a unique (if tragic) testing ground. One of our users sent a video that conclusively shows that Bastyon indeed is the answer. In Kazakhstan over the last week access to internet is intermittent and most of the time DNS is blocked. This means that all or most websites simply do not work. In the video, you can see that the user is trying to open different websites and they are not available. Bastyon.com is likewise non-operational.
However, the desktop app allows the user to read their favorite bloggers and get access to crucial information. Information that perhaps can save a life in a crisis situation.
You can download the desktop app here (for Windows choose the file with .exe at the end):
https://github.com/pocketnetteam/pocketnet.gui/releases/tag/v0.4.112
P.S. Next week we are releasing ability to run a node right from the desktop app for non-technical users. This node can support the network and if you put some PKOIN into it, it will also earn PKOIN. This is an optional feature for those who want to utilize it. But censorship resistance is non-optional and is embedded in the desktop app.
The downvoting on Hive is making me feel sick. I thought this was supposed to be censorship free? Attacking us financially is slightly more than censorious. It is THEFT.
As a direct result of what I have seen happening to accounts on Hive I have now started to publish on Substack.
I opened an account on GETTR recently.
I will now get onto BASTYON.
Thank you for the advice.
A lot of my friends on Hive are now on Blurt. I'm not really using it, but do keep an eye on it.
This splitting of everyone onto so many platforms is not good.
I havn't even checked out Gettr or Substack.
Bastyon has the best chat - with anon sign up and end to end enctyption.
But for a new user, unless you have 50+ Pkcoins (cost around US$60) your credits are limited and your ability to vote or follow other users is quite limited. And until they put in the blog editor, it's just not well set up for posting new content.
They are gradually improving it. And that is the thing with Hive - after nearly 6 years it has a lot of development, and all the other platforms are playing catch up.
That is why I'm still running with VYB based on the Hive blockchain - there are things this blockchain has that nowhere else does yet. But the downvoting is killing it.
I've had every post (and most comments) down voted on hive - for 9 months !
It's an incestuous cesspit, rewarding dull banality and punishing originality -with no ethos of free speech, only control.
It better on Blurt - big time !
https://blurt.blog/blurtlife/@lucylin/how-not-to-be-a-total-wanker-or-how-to-be-whichever-it-s-all-good
...which is why I have problem with vyb - the hive cabal dimwits , get richer of the success of real creators (via token price).
I hope vyb forks off hive, and then I'll start posting again ('feeding the beast' is not a good strategy imo).
OMG! It is so much worse than I thought....
Hive = the platform that encourages - and rewards, mediocrity, conformity and sycophancy.
DPoS with down voting is digital feudalism, nothing less.
It's all based on a 'rewards' or 'punishment' system - but on hive, the law is written by the large stakeholders, and the 'justice' is decided by those very same large stakeholders - and 'value of work' is also decided by those same large stakeholders ....(i.e -it's Communism/centralized controlled economy/ technocracy).
But they also never shut up about it being decentralized' ...MMMmmmm....Gaslighted , anyone?..lol
I have put my heart and soul into posts on Hive. This is no exaggeration. I have no interest in crypto, never have had. I don't use Hive for that reason, but very recently I have noticed that the quality of posts which trend is diabolical. I would be ashamed to put my name to any of them and yet they seem to earn huge rewards and I really could not figure out why....
Thanks to your recent posts (which I have been checking over the past hour or so) I have understood what is happening.
Correct me if I am wrong but it looks as if Hive was providing an excellent and popular space for genuine ethical freedom loving people to express themselves. This was noticed by the unethical globalist Black Nobility and they have infiltrated Hive with their minions who are tasked to destroy it.
If I am right then I can see no hope for Hive. It has been hijacked and is a cadaver on a slab, waiting for burial.
This interview is of great interest - the events in Kazakstan have shown that only one platform still worked - what he is saying has shown to be true:
https://bastyon.com/index?s=ff882dc73fb223b6577128194e36218c2308c00393d6a3f64bffb0ddfc06b749&mpost=true
Hi guys! I'm new to hive but understand this predicament, as explained by a friend of mine that has 2 years already here.
We are trying as a team to implement a Dapp that can potentially change everything its called #Matrix-8
You can check the white paper here:
https://ecency.com/hive-153630/@atma.love/matrix-8-white-paper-abstract?ref=atma.love
It's a Decentralized Governance system. We're very close to moving into the testing phase and would really appreciate a hand and more people to join at the moment.
Cheers!
There are two possibilities, as I see it.
The one you've out lined above, and the other one - a case of incompetence, lack of understanding of psychology, and greed.
Judging by actions (the allocation of rewards), I'm more inclined to believe total idiocy and avarice, over deep state. (although both options may well be at work).
...barring something innovative (which I doubt), and with the continued nepotism and sycophancy being supported - it's almost a mathematical certainty.
It will collapse under the weight of it's own self indulgence and incompetence.
Psychologically speaking, it's becoming more and more apparent that it's a 'midwit enclave' (see my older posts about that one)... A bureaucratic mindset, with a talent for administering systems -and that's about it.
This would also explain the natural hostility to anyone that shows independent thought, humor, and who's not scared to ask questions and ruffle feathers ( an anathema to 'the midwit psychology').
Having spoken to some people who really know what they're on about (dealing with funds greater than the entire market cap of hive) and after looking briefly at the governance systems in place - they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole as an investment possibility.
Cadaver, indeed...
Just without down voting alone (Blurt), the environment is positive - with none of the juvenile power games.... d/v'ing gives total control to the large stakeholders.
That's why I cannot really support vyb - for ethical reasons - it's a layer built on hive, and thus, if that profits, so do the idiot power mongers on hive.
I have a real issue with contributing to anything that will profit the morons that have attacked me for the last 9 months ! ...strange...lol