Books will be written about the Steem/Steemit hostile takeover.
It will become much more relevant when it starts happening to other chains.
I'm still a bit flabbergasted that no one really talks about it anymore.
Old news dies hard I guess.
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Puts tinfoil hat on
I think Hive vs. Steem scared the bejeebus out of most of the web 2 giants. Their whole game plan has always been to buy out the competition. Now they see what happens when you try to buy a community using open-source tech. There is a reason why Hive is the obvious answer yet is being elegantly silenced on web2. It started with not being able to post hive links to Twitter without your tweet being collapsed. Lots of people getting banned, little by little, but I'd say we are down a good 20-30% of Twitter Hive accounts due to just bans alone. People seem to be extra quiet when talking about Hive, and a small part of me thinks there's a reason. Hive laid out the blueprint for how communities can become independent, and there is no business model for web2 in breakaway communities.
takes off tinfoil hat
Weirdly reminded of this:
This pressure-cooker gonna explode sooner or later.
Maybe because there is nothing else to say about it. Probably everything is already written about it. But some of the new Hive users do not even know (have not heard) about the Steem blockchain so far. Either way, this is history, and we were a part of it. People usually do not talk about history. They focus mostly on the present and on the future.