I've been fighting on this blockchain since 2016, full time on-boarding, promoting, teaching, curating, organizing, commenting, posting.
I've been through various waves of whale wars and flag wars, I had to explain what happened to Berwick when ol' BS downvoted him for a few hundred bucks (while he was making thousands per post)
I've watched most of the freedom movement either ignore Hive, call it a CIA operation (thanks Whitney!), just copy-paste here and withdraw their earnings, or give up on it already.
When this place launched (as steem) it was already a bit of a shit-show, but most of the whales were anarchists, and if people had come here instead of sticking with FB & Twitter (and more of the big names here had interacted & re-invested instead of draining the economy) - we'd have control of this chain now, and the statist folks doing all the downvoting would not have been able to stack so much cheap coin.
At this point, it would take something like $20 million or more to get the freedom movement back on par with those whales down-voting it.
What if your decision to stay on here and continue regardless of these setbacks actually sets a precedent for others to do the same to create and bolster a strong community that flourishes and survives through any hardship?
It's a nice idea, but like I said...
We've already gone through this rodeo multiple times. Some of the actors change, but the game stays the same - only with a wider and wider gap in the stake on the opposing sides (and not tilting in the favor of free speech and liberty.)
I empathize with your experience on these platforms and I say there is definitely a time to walk away and have a break.
Maybe this is not the end - it's just a time you need to recharge.
I am grateful for your work and your strength!
If you and others like your weren't fighting to make Hive into what it is now, there would be no deep community on here that has developed a fuck tonne of resilience!
And by fuck, resilience is what we need at the moment.
Please have a break and reconsider at a later date!
I don’t think thars the answer anyway maybe David icke joins and powers up 20 million then an even richer guy like kim jong Un joins and flags all his posts etc. At the end of the day no amount of money will change a system. Something has to be done to the platform itself or people themselves have to change.
Fighting?
Fighting what? Your shadow? :)
Fighting in the general sense of struggle, putting in energy and time... putting in untold hours learning about it, teaching about it, promoting it to thousands (actual in person hands-on promotion), researching, creating, and...
Fighting against folks with too big an ego, some stake to throw around, and no sense of common decency, fair play, or honest discourse - in this case usually through helping bring to light their activities and intentions, through posts like this, and through reaching out to individuals to ask them to remove their support from projects like curangel, behind these attempts at censorship & fiscal warfare.
Anytime tribe touched a post it either feed someone in another country or it inspired others to continue creating good content. When it felt like my efforts to engage with with the community of Hive was all for not after writing a post that took me days to write and study info on just to be slandered and verbally attacked by someone who, yes this will trigger him but, I still see as a brother hurt.
But then to see a community approved account that is supposed to protect the chain like a @hivewatchers moderator decides instead to jump in on the action by DMing me and telling me that Threats of violence and overall hostile attacks on your character and physical person is 100% ok and stop upvoting comments was so confusing and isolating. Mind you it wasn't even me that was calling them. I was telling people to stand down.
But then here comes Kenny with delegated Hive power that I had I never thought I would had ever received and on two accounts. I did not even know him. Just dude came in made feel like I was apart of the team and more important a valuable member of the Hive community.
Kenny has helped me keep a really strong positive perspective on Hive even when my outlook is as bearish. Kenny has been fighting the good fight. He is onboarding a lot of people and has really really cared for our community.