Been meaning to reply to this.
I was talking to my gf yesterday about why I don’t have a hard time getting outside of my comfort zone and connecting to different people with different values (something she struggles with) and I realized it’s because I was one of the first people using internet for social. Before social media I was chatting with strangers on the other side of the country about coheed and Cambria and South Park. It made school feel like one of many bubbles and I could start to see outside of it.
I felt the same thing in the early days of social media, being the 9th or 10th university that was able to use Facebook before it was public, I used it as a tool to connect and so I started school with 100 contacts I never met, ended up meeting half of them.
Crypto is a little different in that it’s financial, but it’s the same in the crazy potential and skepticism around it and I think it’ll also open up more new ways to connect, hive being the most underrated example.
I think we’ve gotten adoption all wrong all these years, no amount of trying to convince will work. When there’s cool stuff going on that people want to join even if they are skeptical of the value or long term viability, that’s when it’ll catch on. If your favorite artist or game developer had some hive exclusive content, you’d check it out even if you didn’t trust crypto. You might even join hive.
That’s why I wish we could make some hivesters who love this community well known off hive, it’s easier than convincing outsiders to become insiders.