In a bit of a discussion with @galenkp an this weeks Engagement post about passions, I was saying that I sometimes wonder how I would feel if Hive goes mainstream and for some reason or other, I end up some kind of personality based on my account here. I have never been interested in fame and fortune, so think I would be somewhat uncomfortable if celebrity found me. Nevertheless, it is a possibility.
Galen mentioned that I can have the notoriety, while he can enjoy the increase in HIVE value. If you are wondering what notorious means, here is a definition.
You'd think they could have found a better example than the first provided.
Hive has been a pretty unique journey for me, an outlier in my normal processes, as I have never looked for the spotlight and while I do like to have feedback on what I do, it has been limited to what I produce, not me as a person. However, building an account on Hive generally requires being a person, where there is some kind of character development over time. This doesn't mean one can't be pseudonymous, just that there is consistency of some kind in the role, if not the content.
While I don't want to be "famous", that doesn't mean others don't and what I see happening in the future is the expansion of Hive celebrity, where people are able to develop their online persona from Hive as the foundational platform. This will attract new users in as well as more content creators looking to compete for the attention and value on offer.
But, there are inherent advantages to being a Hive celebrity that other platforms can't really offer and that is, ownership of the platform, making pretty much anyone bulletproof from getting kicked off the platform. The interesting thing with the second layer application ability, is that there can be experiences built that operate independently from each other, while still living on the same infrastructure. This can be imagined as different websites all residing on the internet.
What this means is that an application platform that caters for users can have the freedom to govern their experience from a centralized point, but the creators and the audience are not tied to the platform in the same way that they would be to for example, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter. What this means is that even if an interface decides to mute a particular user, they don't automatically lose their content and followership, as this can be imported into another interface quite easily.
While the goal isn't to govern an application to death, what this mobility does is encourage an application to better care for creators and users, or risk losing them. The current crop of centralized platforms don't offer this, as this would take away their collar on creators who they have encouraged to build a presence and then hold that presence hostage to keep them in line. If they fall out of line, they risk losing everything they have worked for, with very little opportunity for recourse.
Having the Hive base first or, integrating it after if already a celebrity of some kind, gives a safety net fallback position, a "save" point. Even for the large celebrities, building a presence on Hive gives somewhat of a bargaining chip for the other platforms too, as while it might not be perfect at this point, it does give a celebrity other options without again having to risk their work to a centralized, for-profit organization.
This last point is something many users do not grasp on Hive, even though it is a core part of the platform. While users as owners do look for profits from Hive in various ways and along different lengths of timelines, the platform itself isn't for profit - it isn't a legal entity like a corporation that owns property like a human, it is just a ledger that records the activity of the owners and users. While a corporation has an obligation to its shareholders and as such, the business awareness for profits, the Hive blockchain carries no such responsibility and owes its users nothing at all, it is just a conduit for movement of value.
This gives it a type of open honesty, as it doesn't care in any way how users are using it, what they say, or how they say it - it will record regardless. This means that the second-layer applications are the gatekeepers of their experience, but they do not hold the keys to the entire ecosystem. This can be imagined like someone getting banned from a platform, but they aren't banned from using the internet. Hive is the open internet, the interfaces and applications the privatized websites who are responsible for themselves.
What this also means is that pretty much anyone can create their own application and offer their audience a unique experience, whilst still having them be able to move laterally across the network to consume content and do a whole lot of other tasks. In this way, Hive becomes a centralized point for consumption in a decentralized environment of applications - meaning all levels of user are offered some protection, including investors, who can invest into the Hive infrastructure or individual applications. The infrastructure investment is protected through the diversification of experience, so if one fails, the rest can continue unaffected or perhaps even, pick up and absorb the space of the failure's market share.
In many ways, this is how the internet currently works, but due to the way business works, it has increasingly restricted users, while simultaneously increasing the corporate profits. The restriction comes from the sunk cost of building a presence on any platform and even the ones where users only consume like Spotify, they keep paying because they have built up their history through playlists and favorites and they do not want to lose their structure.
While I do not expect (nor want) myself to ever be famous, I am a supporter of building a more direct relationship between "artist and audience", which includes all of the economic and financial considerations that go with it. Hive offers a blended approach through being a general content delivery platform that can be fashioned to suit in a myriad ways simultaneously, while integrating a range of financial services and options with the benefit of free transactions across the blockchain, including across the decentralized and independent interfaces.
This makes it the perfect place to not only build a presence - but actually own that presence too. And for the audience, it means that they aren't just marketing targets and bargaining pieces for the platform to ensure compliance, they are protection for the creator, as they are highly mobile too.
In my opinion, the potential of Hive to change the way we create, consume and develop the relationship between the two positions, is worth taking the third and fourth, investing into the development of the ecosystem.
The cool thing about decentralization on Hive is, there can be all kinds of notoriety existing together, without stepping on toes. The good, the bad, the ugly.
The invested.
Fame wanted, or looking for fortune?
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
There is one other thing that the investor can invest in, and that is the artist/creator.
I feel the next on-board effort should toward the audience member. The larger the audience, the more notoriety for artist and content creators. A Hive advertising message of On Hive block chain we have Blah Blah Blah, an rapidly rising and upcoming internet music star that unlike other sites actually responds to some of the comments on their post. We also have the up and coming author blah blah blah, working and editing his next blockbuster Novel, welcoming criticism's good and bad about his process and responding to some of them.*
The back and forth engagement is more obvious on Hive than elsewhere. That is something that audience members like. Who knows one day I might over hear a conversation about you in public, *Did you read what Taraz said about TKP in his post?" I've seen a few so-called internet star type names get used in post about we should get this person or that person on Hive. I think we as audience members need to develop our own stars on Hive and have other places say we need to get so-and-so from Hive on our site.
Yes, I am looking forward to the return if direct patronage.
This defintiely should be the focus. Everyone wants to find some shortcut to success, without realizing we have the tools for it here on the platform now - we just need to focus our efforts to focus the attention on Hive.
There has been a lot of focus on outside sites, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I think it would be better if all those outside efforts would end in visit my account on Hive for more in-depth...blah blah blah I see a lot of posh bot type comments, and I wonder if any of them have a direct link back to their account on Hive and how often they get visited from outside agencies.
Yeah, I have no idea how much linkback traffic there is on any of the sites - but it would be good to know.
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ENGAGEtokens.Fame and fortune This is very good, but personally, I believe that the main value of HIVE, like all other social networks, is relationships with other people on the platform.
I believe that the more such interactions and they are more saturated, the more valuable becomes a person's dependence on a social network. For example, is it easy for you to refuse posts during the day ?, week ?, month? :)
I think that this is what gives that relationship - not the fame and fortune, but the direct connection between creator and audience - it is far more personal and is far less controlled by an organization of middlemen operators.
For me, I haven't missed a day in over three years! :D But I might have a problem... :)
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ENGAGEtokens.I really like the spirit of your text. I mean, your spirit :)
Or the spirits I drink to aid my spirit in the spirit of the text.
Haha absolutely :)
I think being famous would suck, having to watch every breath you take XD
I was trying to explain that thing you were vaguely describing about wanting feedback on things you're doing to my sibling, only the way I put it was that I wanted people to pay attention to the stuff I was making but I didn't want them to pay attention to me and she laughed at me XD