Mastodon does not offer anywhere close to the user experience Hive does. When we have tokenized communities, we will provide content creators with ways to monetize and make more money than they can anywhere else. I lose count of how many times I have said; people don't care about immutability simply because they don't understand it. People understand money, and if they can make more money here than anywhere else, they will stay. Immubaility is how we KEEP them, meaning, one day, they won't lose everything. It's giving them something they want, attached to something they need.
We are moving to a trustless world. Today, of course, it's hard to see a world without web 2. Just like it's hard to see Bitcoin sucking up the entire world's wealth and becoming the base treasury reserve asset. Michael Saylor said, even if we were not printing like we are, hell, even if we enter Quad 4, he is still bullish Bitcoin. Once it clicked with him, he realized, no matter the economic conditions, when you zoom out 30 years, what do you want to hold? Do you want to have stock and trust a CEO for 30 years? Real estate will be taxed away in 30 years. Bonds don't pay enough. When you zoom out, he says Bitcoin is the only thing that made sense for him, and he says despite the current conditions, he wishes he had found Bitcoin earlier.
So it's not so much the conditions that forced him into this; the conditions forced him to research more, and once it clicked, it clicked regardless; he wants to store his life force in Bitcoin.
I feel the same way about Hive. These web 2 giants are liabilities to everyone, the users, governments, everyone. They are regularly attacked on all fronts, sued by everyone, and this will only escalate as the world becomes more polarized. If a human controls the code, there will be bais, and at this point, all trust has been removed; it's not if we move to a decentralized web 3 protocol; it's when.
I see it quite simple, if it can be dematerialized, it will. Centralized CEOs offer no benefit to the users in the age of DAOs and trustless tech. The billions Mark and Jack make can be funneled into a DAO and used to grow the ecosystem in the way the communities want. You don't have to believe that vision and think 20 years from now; web two will still exist; I think it will not, at least not how we see it today. Businesses that sell and produce physical goods are safe for the time being. However, sites that are just protocols, like Facebook, will be eaten alive by web3.
20 years is a long, long time. Until we can safely say that web3 is ready for mainstream, we should leverage both web2 and web3 technologies in harmony to combine speed and decentralization.
Steps in the right direction are always good, and everything is a balance between web2 and web3, even on hive.