If Hive is limited by one community joining, then Hive has failed already. All of the conspiracy theories, bad actors, etc all used Twitter. Sure Twitter banned them, but they accepted them first. The front ends on Hive can ban who they want. If people are violent they will be removed from the front ends. That is the job of front end owners. The blockchain does not care who you are. If someone breaks the law, they get booted from front ends and then arrested because the data is public if they tied their identity to it. I’m not here to be a referee on who can join Hive. I am here to give everyone an equal chance at free speech. If they abuse it they won’t get far on Hive. They will end up creating their own siloed communities on Hive and if they break the law they will have the suffer the consequences. It is very dangerous thinking to label a whole group of people a certain way and say they don’t even deserve to speak. Not everyone on parler id a violent criminal, and I despise that way of fearful defensive thinking. If we want to succeed we have to be stronger than that.
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And if the fear is if we give a platform to anyone, and that rulfles regulatory feathers, let then be reffuled. Hive does not need our protection it isn’t centralized. If a regulatory can come take down Hive, let them do it. I rather hive fail soon if it’s not strong enough to stand on its own two feet. But I know better than that, no one is bringing down Hive. I am one who likes to see Hive tested I want to know what we are made of.
Exactly! Hive is the Bitcoin of social media.
It is resilient and very difficult to take down already and will only get stronger and more resilient.
18 months ago I was very worried by the over-reliance on Steemit Inc's API nodes.
When Hive went independent 8 months ago there were 7 API nodes which was some diversity but not enough.
Today we have 19 with more coming online all the time.
People like @techcoderx and I are pioneering and encouraging every witness to run an API node, preferably on their own physical hardware. $1000 is all it costs to build an API node (4/8 core CPU, 64Gb RAM & 2 Tb NVME) that can handle all Hive's current traffic.
Many people can spend a couple of hundred $ to upgrade an existing machine.
With API nodes and front ends easy, cheap and quick to set up and hundreds and then thousands of people worldwide running them in their homes and businesses Hive becomes so diverse and resilient that, like Bitcoin, it is just a fact that has to be accepted and cannot be stopped.