I aligned with Leo because they had the only realistic plan to onboard new users to hive and create meaningful links to other ecosystems, as well as the only plan to make an app many new users might actually want to use (short form done well), and because they recognized my contribution to their ecosystem far more than any remaining hive whales (short of acidyo and 3speak guys) ever have. Not only that Khal was thinking about bringing money into the ecosystem, THAT is why I felt ok about premium, because peakd and ecency are great projects without any realistic plan to become self sustainable.
I think some things Leo does are questionable. But you all put up with far more nefarious destructive shit than anything Leo has done.
Azariwhatever and a few others have scared off everyone who disagrees with them. I’ve stayed silent on it cause I didn’t think my voice was enough to change anything. But if you downvote me (for any reason), I feel invited to speak my mind.
If you want to balance out all the bullying and arbitrary “dispute over rewards” downvotes with counter-upvotes (especially when the user is clearly targeted through multiple downvotes) AND make a plan for onboarding better than Khal’s old DHF plan (where he tried to collaborate with multiple other crypto projects and get them involved in hive through Leo threads), then I’ll listen to what you have to say about Leo…. Otherwise it kinda just feels like a big circle jerk where you better comply to the big votes or get out. Please think about it. I want to see Hive thrive.
A lot of the old bid bot owners still have a lot of power here and unironically they’ve never given me an upvote once, I would guess because I was one of the first voices against self voting back then. Or maybe they just didn’t like my content, right? I’m sure that’s it, cause we all know how much they care about quality right?
So many friends have been scared off by downvoting, not because of less rewards but because the feeling that a bully could come and take it all away with a click. I found the one community left that seemed welcoming to me. I get the idea that downvoting necessary parameter for certain reasons but where is the counter balance to abuse? If it's not in the code, it's up to the community, namely the large stakeholders with good will.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for now. I care about Hive more than I care about my upvotes at this point but I’m sick of the double standards and lack of acknowledgement that downvote bullying is a huge issue at hive (and I’m not even pointing the finger at you, I just want an explanation for the double standard).
Ignore this as “the insignificant whining of a content creator” if you want. Or maybe you can prove to me that this isn’t one big circle jerk. I’d like that.
It’d be nice to actually feel like my opinion matters to those who control this chain for once, after almost a decade here. It’d be nice to see them want to spread hive power further and make hive truly decentralized rather than something they can control. I believe it’s still possible, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.
