RE: Decentralizing Social Networks - Let's Talk About It

Hello Sensei it's good to see you around once again. Besides agreeing with what you said I'm going to share my opinion from a user's perspective.

When I heard first about #hive, formerly steem. And after reading every piece of bit of information and managing to understand how the chain works I instantly quit my job in Venezuela because I thought and still think I've found the new "facebook" for at least the next 30 years. That convinced I was/am.

To me #Hive is a country. With the difference that there is no government, as utopic as it sounds, yeah, a country with no government, no politics, heck, not even rules because every user is entitled to voice out whathever they feel to voice out (censorship free) and even though its possible to see bad actors, and see content that may be harmful to our eyes; Such a child porn or the alikes, and yeah, as sensitive as it sounds, it's something that we have to address yet even if it cannot be wiped, there are two sides:

If the community's moral is healthy enough (which is it), such content would be hypothetically hidden via downvotes yet not erased.
Not being erased may be dangerous even for such hypothetically given that again, it cannot be erased, hidden but not erased. It's like commiting a crime and leaving the evidence so everyone could see.

What impresses me the most, is that Hive is ruled by its people. By its users. A couple of days ago I read a tweet in spanish which kinda says like "if the product is free, then you are the product". That quote pretty much defines what Hive is yet more than a product, we are a conglomerate of humans brains, all different, yet with one goal in mind which is the protection and transparency of keeping our chain healthy.

Hive is so inclusive that everyone, EVERYONE, is allowed to get in. There's no way you can prevent someone to be part of this, even if they are possible bad actors.

Staking, the whole power up process is notorious when it comes to governance. That's why distribution is so important. The more people are distributed with stake, the harder it would be to compromise our chain, and like you stated. The worst thing that may happen is that someone may out stake us but that would make us millionaires, we can fork, and continue to do what we do, that simple yet complex but still simple. We demonstrated by forking to Hive that our community doesn't bend the knee to the thousand of Justins who may want to take to our chain.

The Venezuelan and third world country users case is another thing that impresses me. If mainstream media knew how helpful has been this system for people like me and like many others that use Hive as main source of income, we would have been mainstream already.

Three second and feeless Transactions, a place where coders, programmers, artists, influencers, everyone can build and not be silenced. We literally found gold.

Time will proves us right, hopefully. It feels great to be part of history and be one the first to be in, our future, our children's future, our grandson's future will be assured.

Thanks once again Dan for being such a good man to us. Kind Regards.