Things Are Going To Change Though. "Soon, Very Soon"...
My first contact with a color TV was when I was about six, if my memory doesn't fail on me, and by that time we got to have cable TV as well. It was Cartoon Network all day every day and my eyes were practically burning during evenings, pretty much the same as they do now with all the social media related activity that I do on a daily basis.
When I grew up I started to not only use it for movies and music, but gradually become a politics shows consumer as well and was trying to have a grasp of the world through the established media outlets that we had in the country. By tenth grade realized it's just crap and quit watching TV almost entirely. I had only occasionally and accidentally watched television, but not on my own device and out of my free will.
Social media kind of started with yahoo messenger for me, but the real taste of it was offered by hi5. It didn't last long because facebook came into play and the rest is history. Social media started as a sort of show off, staying in touch with family, dating app. It kind of had a bit of everything that made it social. It evolved over time however and it's a force now.
It can be used to influence elections or to cut the cords of communication of powerful men around the world as in the case of Donald Trump. To some extent social media has become a sort of a media as during some circumstances and events you get more info about the problem from facebook or twitter as you do from your CNBC, FOX news, or whatever the hell they have on TV these days.
There's online media outlets putting the work out as well, but those are owned by the same crooked ones owning the established outlets. Somehow the average Joe has become a reporter since this whole thing started, editor and channel of mass information, as often times disturbing truths are shared mostly through social media and not the traditional media. These guys have nothing to lose and don't serve anyone so they simply load up on the internet plat what's happening around the world.
Facebook, twitter and whatever other well established social media app are owned by some entity and it runs on centralized servers, hence the ones having big mouths and fast fingers offering themselves to be the truth fighters on the internet can be censored at the push of a button. See here the cases of Donald Trump, wallstreetbets and many other crypto content creators that got censored by the elites. It's that simple, because the power is in their hands.
When you have social media apps built on decentralized blockchains, as Hive is for example, there's no control over one's thoughts, ideas and messages spread online coming from any entity. Nobody can censure my account here and I can share with you guys whatever I feel like. There are cases when users abuse of this marvelous right, but those are rare and can be easily muted.
Social media has become a media, but not that media. Often times you get the real picture of events and the whole truth from alternative sources, and here you have plenty of fakes and lies from the covid plandemic that have been exposed by people all over the world, just through a couple of tweets or facebook posts. Often times though the machineries indirectly programmed by the elites are putting down such truth spreaders. They don't want the society to be smart, or free.
Project Blank, which I am highly excited about, is about to be launched "soon, very soon" as Khal(@khaleelkazi) commented on a post of mine yesterday. Now, the way I see it this app will be the perfect twitter and as @taskmaster4450 tweeted a few hours ago it will bring tons of traffic on the Hive blockchain.
Why do I believe it's the perfect microblogging app?
Because it takes all the goodies from twitter and does them better. Short form content is what spins the planet. A tweet can crash markets and put millions under terror, but it can also drive the vibe up and bring peace back on earth in seconds. The more the likes and shares the viral it becomes. Leofinance's microblogging app does that better, because you have the app built on a decentralized blockchain.
This meaning that there's no authority trying to censor truth seekers and spreaders, you have a tokenomy that incentives users to be active and can be used to make certain posts viral or send them into oblivion. Whatever you find flawed on twitter and facebook is carefully polished and done right on Hive. All this app needs once it's launched is a lot of shilling and sooner than later millions will use it.
I bet @nathanmars will weigh heavy on that matter as he has proved to be the best Hive word spreader I am aware of so far. The sun of total decentralization and power in the hands of the people is just rising on the sky and it would be a pity to ignore it. That was about it for now, hope you have a great day ahead and see you to the next one.
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Thanks for attention,
Adrian
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I got shadowbanned on Twitter after I pointed out maltreatment of a candidate in the 2016 presidential primary. Approaching 12K, my follower growth was steady and strong, yet as soon as I compared his treatment to the favored one, it was like a tap had been suddenly turned off.
If you watch the Joe Rogan interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, he tells you how it's done. In effect, they accelerate your tweets velocity through your followers timelines so quickly, that they barely see it. Like dropping a rock from a skyscraper, almost no one notices it.
I had looked at Steemit the year before and didn't know it was for real. After the shadowbanning, I decided to take another look, finally joining in July 2017.
The censorship-resistant nature of the blockchain is what brought me here and the community is what keeps me here. I'm so glad we have Hive, Leofinance and all of the other tribes in which to express our opinions. And shortly, we'll have a place where no one will br able to "blank" us out! :)
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Jack Dorsey is full crap. I don't care how much he's talking about Bitcoin, he's acts are pure communism.
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That is interesting how Twitter works. Always good to find out the way the corrupt are operating.
It seems that censorship resistant is becoming more popular with each passing month. I guess the people getting closed down is expanding.
This will only favor what we are producing here.
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These types of people will see the true value of what we have here. We just need a bit of help from twitter to send us more.
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As I discovered the tremendous machinery of manipulation of consciences behind Facebook and Twitter, I moved away from both social networks to the point that I no longer publish or observe anything exposed in those social networks. I believe that their perversion has reached a point where they are able to determine who wins an election or who has the right or not to have a public life in the virtual world.
I believe that Hive/Leofinace have come into this world to provide people with a protective shield against the infamy of the traditional media and the social networks of the elites that every second employ against us their army of conscience-slaver algorithms.
I have no doubt that all the upcoming projects associated with Hive and Leofinance will be highly supported by your community, this will make our social network become a refuge for those banished from the other centralized spaces, where pro-establishment thinking prevails over criticism. I am delighted to be here, to say what I feel freely and without fear and also to monetize my thoughts.
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Hive is definitely the better version. I still use twitter though. Once project blank will be out I'll probably reduce my twitter usage.
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On the day when people realize the opportunities they are missing out on by not participating in projects like Hive and LeoFinance, they will regret it... Bitterly.
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Some simply don't know about them and others simply don't care. Some of them will indeed regret that a lot.
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Blockchain social communities are very interesting. Where-as facebook feels like a school lunchroom cafeteria with random screaming and fighting going on in the background, places like HIVE feel more like a nestled group of people deciding to skip school lunch and go play hookie at a speakeasy.
Beautiful analogy.
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It's all about the angle you show on social media. It is the best tool for propaganda, as Donald Trump found out the hard way.
Excited about bringing all that traffic to our community and drastically increasing the number of onchain connections.
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As more will start using decentralized blockchain based social media apps, propaganda will lose its use case.
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It hits upon a key selling point with the masses: ease of use.
With Leofinance, one can sign up using a twitter account (and soon FB and others) and start engaging. The same will hold true for blank.
Thus, the learning curve, at least to participate, is zero. Sure they will have to learn about Hive's features but they can do that over time, kind of a phase in process.
As soon as the is released, it will be hit on social media by us hard. That is why not releasing the name, unless there is some legal reason or something of that nature, is a mistake. We could be promoting the name already all over the web.
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Speaking of ease of use; do you think it will be an app we'll install on our phones or it will be a web-based app?
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I'd say a web-based app in the beginning.
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You're right, but if Khal doesn't want that, we can't force his hand. A bit of prelaunch advertising would have been good.
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My first social media was Hi5 as well lol, i never got around using it tho, i was never a social media person. I did do facebook though for a couple of months, i met my high school friends who had moved overseas. I thought we would rekindle the friendship and things will go back to how they were. I was wrong, the whole thing died down and it was the beginning of the end of social media for me. Till BBm which was also an instant messaging app but none of them come close to the social nedia experience and my heavy usage of
steemithive.I'm glad I ditched facebook four years ago. It's total crap.
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Until I start micro-blogging on noise.cash, I could not realize the potential of micro-blogging. It provides 50x faster engagement + much better awareness raising opportunities. I've seen a lot of people investing in BCH on the one side while new people were onboarding on Hive & Leo on the other 😌
There is an obscure need for a better option than Twitter in crypto ecosystem and, as usual, if there is something needed, Hive fixes this 😏 Fingers crossed for ProjectBlank ^^
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Things happen very fast on the internet and the world is spinning faster, hence we need a microblogging app to keep up with the pace. Such an app is exactly what Hive lacked for so many years.
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people are sick and tired of mainstream media but at the same time, they are not aware of the many opportunities like Hive and leo. I hope this will change soon with all the projects coming up!
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People are lazy too as well.
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Can you imagine living a few centuries ago, when news traveled by boat and mouth to mouth? We've come a long way...
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Indeed.
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Thanks
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this is wonderful because there isn't a time when social media hasn't been useful
It's becoming more useful and decentralized
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I heard about Hi5, but I haven't registered on it. My first social media account is through Friendster, then Multiply, finally Facebook and Twitter. Of course, Hive, Leo, and other crypto socials. I am very excited with ProjectBlank.
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Project blank got many of us excited.
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I hear ya!
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Yes sosial media is not the best media