On the governance front, there was an interesting bitter article on Steem (written in Korean I think) saying how centralised Hive is - pointing out that practically everyone in the top 20 has either a Pumpkin or Dan vote, they have a point!
Long way to go there to sell the platform as decentralised!
How to get those discussions off Discord and into the public domain is something to consider.
Very interesting sounding thesis, you've been doing that for ages, haven't you?
I haven’t really had time to dig into who the most influential user is on Hive yet. Nevertheless the people that currently are in the top 20 spots are those that made hive reality in the first place. I’m happy to have them there (I in fact vote for most of them). In time, when we settle on the platform, we shall see how the witness positions are going to change.
I any case without the pre-mined tokens and without Ned and Justin we are the closest to "decentralized" position than we have been ever before. But as I said we lack some instrumental aspects as of yet in order to function well.
We definitely need the discussions to happen on chain!
Well in fact no. I have just started basically...still got a year and half before it needs to be finished so i just started reading them papers:) I have been trying to get to know this topic for quite some time in that you’re correct:)