Hive Post Deleted - I No Longer Support This Blockchain

Thanks for covering this and your continued support, plus for being you!
One thing that the COVID drama and also my own personal evolutionary journey has made clear to me is that it's not healthy to shy away from power in society. It's one thing to avoid power struggle and conflicts, which is a good idea - but it's definitely possible to go too far the other way and not step into power on a societal level. The net result of this is that other people take more and more of our power and we end up in a place where there's nothing we can do to live in a sane way.

I think that building real world change that was powered by decentralised social media is a secret sauce to getting what's needed out of projects like Hive. When the underlying philosophy of decentralisation manifests into 'real life' after having been inspired by such projects online, there's a good chance that more people will take notice and come to the online space to check out where it all started.

I think a layer 2 project for 'truth' and even scientific studies as NFTs would be a good idea. I also think that a layer 2 project that focuses on real world change (maybe all part of the same thing) would be great too. When I get more time I will dive more deeply into the 3speak light paper for the SPK network because I am told that their moves are aimed at making all of this easier, fairer and cheaper.

Let's manifest our heart's desires into form without hesitation! :)

p.s. unsurprisingly my post that was at #1 has now received nearly 200 hive worth of downvotes.. maybe that's a record. lol
https://peakd.com/covid19/@ura-soul/your-comments-on-the-cancel-culture-and-zeroing-of-viral-posts-on-hive-by-curangel

The downvoting on Hive is now full on - for being on the side exposing the covid hoax I'm now not only having my posts downvoted to zero, whatever the subject matter, I'm also having my comments downvoted!

I'm stunned that these whales are scrolling through posts looking for comments to downvote - my latest one just got taken down from 22 cents to zero. I am now broken and destitute.

Clearly there are several agendas here - control, soft censorship, and promoting the deep state psyops are three of them.

But I also think there is a move to drive content creators onto level 2 front ends. Hive is a complex beast.

I have moved most of my investments out of Hive over the past few months, and my vote value is now mainly in Proof Of Brain. But I'm also on Pocketnet/Bastyon, which has a lot of promising developments, and am checking out Blurt, which has a really friendly vibe and seems genuinely interested in gaining content creators. Worth checking out both and seeing what you think.

https://bastyon.com/frot

https://blurt.blog/@frot

Thank you! I remember reading @ura-soul 's post, which led to a couple offline conversations about Hive and censorship. My points therein were:

• Hive itself never claimed to be censorship free. Instead it gave (gives!) the up/downvoting ability to its users. If you are an invested user (=whale) you'll have more power (it's actually called that!) to support or oppose ANYTHING that has been posted. This is about as far from censorship as it's from censorship resistance.
• We gotta stop idealizing things, whether it's a social media platform, a political movement, a religious philosophy, or anything. Everything has its pros and cons for any given circumstance. That's it. Change the premises, and everything changes.
• Flag wars suck! The same thing goes for wars of any other kind. I personally can't stand it if I walk into a room full of people with the same idea. Even if I happen to agree with them on it, I still dread the thought that the next person walking in might not be of the same opinion (so we all may have to lynch them).

So thank you for summing up my basic point of view in this brief post!

Until I saw that post, I didn't even realize there were so many whales downvoting posts that don't fit their bias. It's sad.

important topic to discuss. I believe the main reason for the downvotes on these posts were because of the content (and not per se against the author). The message is: please don't post conspiracy content on Hive (because that might scare off new users; because I personally don't believe in them etc.) Of course that opens up a whole box of what "conspiracies" are etc.

I think the solution currently in mind for dealing with this "officially" is to create an own community. In this way, the community can have their own whales...

I actually think that the "conspiracy" Hivers should start their own community as there are many interested in this topic and content like this is being downvoted (unfairly) by many whales. Who's up for the challenge?

#ParadigmShift Community?

@tipu curate

Multiple turning points going on ATM indeed! I miss the missing anarchism, I don't miss the flagwars of old and I find many of the current d/voting trends to be ugly and a right turn-off.

I guess we just keep chopping wood....chop chop chop :)

Thanks for linking my post!

https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/24/the-banners-of-the-king-of-hell-advance/

HIVE is censorship free, being demonetized on a post sucks but it is not "censorship", I have lost 7 YouTube channels during the recent purges and that is censorship, your work gone; all the comments gone, all the interaction gone. Just gone, not "reveal post", gone.

At least when a post on HIVE gets zeroed you can still see the post, it is not memory holed from the internet. Also you can see who the flaggot was, and you can then call them out by name because the votes are all public. On YouTube some trolls can have issue with you, flag every video you make, and you have no idea who is doing it or why the video is down, and by down I mean gone and you get suspended from uploading anything else.

HIVE having the downvote thing can lead to personal vendetta's and people's posts being hidden, but at least it is not YouTube or Facebook, the post is still there. I think HIVE is censorship free but not asshole free, and so far is the best platform at dealing with these issues as best as possible.

On Hive, the censorship that does exist tends to come in just a few forms - none of which derive at a centralized control point.

the top 18 witnesses can freeze your account and steal your funds if they feel like it