Dude come down to earth and listen to what you're saying... do you expect everyone to wait until the old fart dies or loses interest? :D Why Bill Gates hasn't lost interest yet? And Klaus Schwab's successor is an even bigger murderer and lunatic - a guy who has drained thousands of springs, ruining people's lives and who thinks that water is not due to everyone on this planet.
And what if we must wait like 20 years until Marky "maybe" loses interest or die? Everything with having this "hope" that the local "Klaus Shwab" will be replaced by someone less crazy?
This is stupid and Crazy XD Freedom of speech is needed now because for 20 years can be a situation where there is no opportunity to any of us to build something that will be a alternative. Why? because there wil be no space for that.
"Blurt also has its problems" yes... Blurt's biggest problem is people who prefer to stick to known shit and trying to reanimate it when it dies, rather than trying something new. Haven't published a single post on blurt. All you did was chat a bit on the matrix chat. But according to you, that's enough to be critical of it and to propagate your theories and trying convince people that is reasonable to wait God only know, how long to "change" on platform who proof that there is no space for change :P
Why the fuck wait when there's Blurt? That's the right question!
I see by the reference to the chats we have had on Matrix that you are one of the people that have dedicated hard work and investment to enable Blurt to exist. I do not at all denigrate or deprecate that worthy cause. However, I do refute your mischaracterization of Blurt and myself, which I suppose I demonstrate are inaccurate by my comment above, provided before I saw this.
Blurt is no less dependent on the leave of the owners of the physical structure of the internet than any communications. I do not expect that physical infrastructure to be extant, certainly not available to plebs, in 20 years. For free speech to be available to sovereigns, we will have to provide the infrastructure ourselves we opine and take each others' counsel on. All transactions, communications, and information today depends on the permission of BlackRock, which possesses a controlling interest in ~90% of stock corporations in the world, including those that own the satellites, radio stations, and cables on which our communications are dependent. DV's are a trivial distraction from our exigency, and I am not distracted.
I am not waiting for that network we own to be developed, but am taking advantage of that leave we are granted today to demonstrate with my shovel and feet in real dirt, on the actual Earth, our ability to ourselves produce the blessings of civilization far more profitably than remaining dependent on overlords. I hope you grasp your exigency and act to secure what you have built with your hard work and investment before it is taken from you by those to whom such is a trivial facility. I am not your enemy, and criticism is not harm to anyone intent on reality, who will learn from criticism to abandon misunderstanding and gain a clearer view.
I fully desire your prosperity, but you will fall if you do not secure your investment by yourself producing it's necessary foundation, and that will stand on actual dirt, on the actual Earth, and not code running on someone else's network. Take your own advice and come down to Earth, my friend.
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I am not waiting for anything. I intend to demonstrate to Marky, and all people invested in anything dependent on communications (which is everything that can be invested in), that he values things far more than he does money and amongst those values is free speech. Here's the last thing he said to me, just a few days ago:
We will better succeed if we hang together, and if we don't we will all surely hang separately, to mangle Ben Franklin's astute aphorism.
Of course, all of this is controlled in the way you say, but why?
The answer is simple. Because wealth is centralized in the hands of a few and most cannot afford to think about anything other than survival, and those few richer ones who do not belong to the cabal are usually "downvoted" in this physical and tangible way, i.e. if you dare to say that covid is a hoax, contracts for your company are suddenly terminated, you are presented in the media as a madman or your affairs or other sins suddenly come to light. Ultimately, the final downvote is an "accident" or "unknown perpetrator". Independent media, on the other hand, do not exist or are niche because there is NO money. There are few independent companies with which you can cooperate.
And now answer the question: what is the difference between hive? Well, nothing. Here too, value is centralized and the opposition is "downvoted" or deprived of funds. In other words, only those who fit the clique can get rich. And so an independent journalist who writes the truth will write it for free on hive and only as long as they don't hide his account. When a journalist who writes in accordance with the main narrative earns quite a lot here, in time he will buy better recording equipment, invest in advertising, promote himself and gather an even larger group of followers on whom he will be able to project the "only correct" worldview of Blackrock.
So the war against downvotes is not just some niche thing. It's to be or not to be for hundreds of independent writers who, for example, from now on on blurt can start monetizing their work in any way, which is not only motivating but also gives prospects for development.
When on hive, just like everywhere else, there is no chance for them. So by buying Blurts on the stock exchange NOW you support a situation where money goes to people fighting to reverse this trend of 90% of capital. When you are on hive, you spin your rhetoric but the money flows just as it flowed for a narrow clique that likes control, power and censorship.
By supporting posts of people who are fighting for real decentralization, for example, you contribute to the fact that journalism can be maintained, when by investing in blurt you make the token price increase, witnesses will be able to invest in their own equipment and independent servers or develop independent infrastructure. On hive, even if you support, nothing will come of it because the posts will be demonetized and the people who are in power clearly approve of centralization.
To sum up, while still on hive, you are wasting your time and your investments are working to support tyranny.
Adding to that... This whole web 3 concept is not just about censorship, it's about the flow of money and consciousness. Even if someone turns around and Blackrock pulls the plug, for example, the money that has so far flowed to independent people thanks to blockchain, can help build a lot of good things until then, e.g. independent farms, land purchases, equipment or other things.
And in turn, independent journalists can instill awareness in thousands of minds that even unplugging blackrock won't erase :P