I'm of the opinion that different things are better in different circumstances. Having a preference isn't the same as having to take sides.
I like that I can see both sides on most issues. I actually work on it. I make no apologies for that. Every war has 2 sides that are convinced they are 100 percent right and the other side is evil. That is almost never true if you can see the other perspective.
I could go into a bunch of details about why I was so frustrated by how the split went, but it's over and it just pisses everyone off. If you want to discuss it further it will have to be on discord.
I post on both to stay in touch with what is happening in crypto, in some cases for a safe place to post with out harassment, which I got quite a bit of after the split. Love letters from Bernie and such. Just didn't feel worth it. Mostly though it sounds like I view the platform differently. No one has squashed my ability to communicate there or express... But I was flagged for months here. Who stepped up to fix those situations? What was my crime? Disagreeing verbally? wow.
The full extent of my "inside information" was being in the secret slack for a bit and I have a discord channel we talked about Steem/Hive for hours for the first several years. I went to all the MSP shows, and basically supported anything I could that was Steem related. I never had any amazing inner connections or anything.
I briefly worked with Ned and others on the foundation, but it was a huge waste of time that I regret. There is your mystery.
There is a long held theory that social media sites were all set up by the CIA as mind control operations. I'm sure Facebook is Mossad/CIA controlled. The elephant in the room is who set up Steemit and how much of that connects to Hive.
When designing things - everything from websites to bicycles (just a couple of my old personal interests), the whole process is "is this better than that?" - every step requires a choice, a side, a decision.
When people "HODL" a crypto they are refusing to make the decision to buy or to sell, and if they always refuse to take a bet on one side or the other we end up with a totally dysfunctional system. And we are in one now.
Even doing a picture we have to decide if one colour is better than another.
dan is 100% Cybercommand qanon yes
dan larimer will come out on stage in full uniform with pompeo soon LOL
things that are never mentioned in these parts!
PS - You know there is chat on Hive now?
I've always thought having to switch to Discord was bogus. It's not encrypted yet but it works OK.
I didn't join the chat. I'm not interested in participating in the politics or direction. I have my own discord. However, I still have some attachment to the project and some members of the community.
I get what you are saying. I hold about 15 cryptos,make decisions about them every day. I made a decision to not be bullied off steem or hive because an angry group told me what I should do and how I should view a situation. THAT IS A DECISION. It cost me some friendships I cared about. Got me on a cute little black list and all!
When it comes to work situations I make plenty of decisions, less so now, from hiring, firing and departmental direction.. as well as explaining/justifying those decisions to people both above me and below me. I even picked my outfit today! ;) lol
I also took a lot of positions on Steem up until the EIP, the reward disagreement phase and the split all combined, it just broke my interest and faith in the project's success. Also, there is a point of which you realize you are beating a dead horse.
Not because it will not move with the market, but because if they just want it to be a blockchain project if I were to get involved again, it would be at the app level. I'm not a developer.
Back on steemit the flagging and bullying was relentless.
On hive I can honestly say you are my only friend here I've ever seen bullied, in 9 months on the platform. And that was bad blood from steemit.
By chat I just mean the hive private messenger. Icon in the top right corner on peaked, I'm not sure if it's on other front ends.
lol
Yes - lol - holy cow i can eat those words! - it has changed a lot this year, but that was a very bad call...
so was that home dudes foresight of Bitcoin is doomed to fail. 🤣
i have said that too - but that is on a longer time frame - by 2030
have you got a photographic memory?
:)
lol people are still on steemit? and if not, people are still talking about it?
only if they speak Korean
wtf
blondes koreans