Can we build a community on HIVE? #500wordsaday.
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We pride ourselves on having the best community in crypto. Is that really true?
If we put this under the microscope would it hold up to examination?
I don't know if it does anymore. We have passionate users. We have brilliant people. We have the best technology. But community?
I don't know that we do any more.
Unfortunately we have had a rough time of it since Xmas. We all know the struggles over the steemit.inc drama. That tore our community apart, splitting people down country boundaries. Splitting people by their actions and beliefs. There were bad things done on both sides and the whole episode just went to show how different we are as a group of people sharing the same space on the internet.
We always have been and that has resulted in multiple splits, fights and innumerable dramas over my few years in this space. Each episode of which has reduced our "community" down in numbers.
Every time that a person or group of people have decided that only they should have an opinion or decide the future direction of the chain we have seen chaos and then the expected fallout from it.
They say history repeats itself and yet we can't seem to learn from that history. Every piece of drama on the chain has only served to reduce our numbers and damage our reputation. How many thousands of more users would we have right now if stakeholders could accept one simple thing?
The simple fact is that other people are entitled to an opinion.
A concept so simple but apparently much too difficult to comprehend.
Even now after the latest split from STEEM we couldn’t all leave together. There is also Blurt and Zappata built by splinter groups at the same time. As far as I know there have been plenty others in the past such as whaleshares and scorum but don’t quote me on that.
How many more users could be part of a real community now if they hadn’t been hounded, attacked and driven from the platform?
I’ve seen hundreds leave myself due to the toxic nature of some our large stakeholders who should be community leaders. We are built on decentralization and immutability but some of what I’ve seen over the years has been nothing short of disgusting. Attacks that I guarantee none of these anonymous users would dare to say in person.
If we do ever want to have that community, which we so proudly boast of it will need to be on different terms than before. If we want to bring in more users and have a place for development and building tribes then it will need to be done without the hate. That person who was just ran out of the community might have built the next facebook, youtube or instagram that would have launched the whole system into the public eye. Probably not, but we will never know if they are not brought in and given the chance to see what we know is here. The best blockchain in crypto that could have the best community.
I don’t know who will read this but you cannot grow large by attacking and destroying. Not when you are the minnow. You need to develop and make partnerships. Bring in more users and accept others for what they are.
The great thing about HIVE is that there is room for everybody. There is room for all opinions. There are multiple apps, front ends, tribes and communities. There is a place for everybody and if it’s not there yet you can create it. But all of this will be for nothing if stakeholders can’t accept that there will be other opinions and other people using the space.
DPOS gives you a say in the system but nothing gives you the right to harass and attack other people. That is beneath our community and should be a relic of the past.
HIVE is our chance to build a new community of users striving to develop the best possible eco system for growth and expand our reach in the crypto world. This will take a community effort and that will take a community.
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Build, don’t destroy.
Otherwise we will be just one more project relegated to the footnotes of crypto and the time that a community stood strong against a liar and an attacker but could prevent themselves from doing the same thing to each other.
Where do we want to be standing in five years time?
On the top of the pile with a thriving community and eco-system of apps.
Or a few large stakeholders left to sit on their pile of nothing after all the community have abandoned it for better opportunities? This is the long term mentality that we will need if we are to rebuild a community on top of the ashes of our failures.
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Noce to meet you here on Hive! ☺
Nice to meet you too. I haven't seen you around before i'm glad that you stumbled onto one of my posts.
We've met (digitally 😅) on Steemit before, but I wasn't much active. I've gone on and off. Your posts are noticeable. And you're one of the few that I can still remember.
I've kept posting on and off. Between that and the different apps I still enjoy being here and writing out a few thoughts.Glad to see you back again for a while. Hopefully you get back into the swing of things and stay active for a long time now.
I'm still fixing things and catching up with my A Daily Dose" blog series, and I hope to be able to do that and publish some future posts on my blog.
You know, we still need to meet active people to be seen so I'm trying to get on that too.
I've started a community to get people writing 500+ words a day if you need a place to get involved. It's in the post but it would be great to get people actively writing and engaging with each other. Something to think about if you are coming back.
Yeah, I saw it at the bottom. I'll check it sometime. I started a community too, Inspire People. It would basically shelter everyone who writes and read or anybody who needs inspiration or motivation. I feel like anyone who does that needs and has a place in the platform.
But I'm still fixing things so I haven't done any official announcement to share it with others. I don't have that much free time yet to stay in front of my laptop in my case now.
100% what you said. The entire crypto space seems little toxic to me. Steem/hive seems to have more than its fair share of strong willed, unforgiving, narrow minded people involved. Although I miss the place, stepping back allowed me see how toxic it really is.
To be fair it is only. A minority that have this kind of mindset on hive. Unfortunately a few of them are early adoptors and have large stake which gives them more power than I would like to see. Any newer user with this attitude can be slapped down fairly fast but a large account can do what it wants.
We've missed you around here lately and it would be good to see you more involved again. I do think it will improve over time as more people join specific apps instead of hive. A lot of the problem is too many views crammed into the one space. We have a lot of very different users here which will always cause friction.
It would be nice to see more respect and willingness to compromise but that is a pipe dream based on the history of the world.
History never repeats itself. Man always does
Now we don't have Steemit.inc anymore, we just need handful of people to develop and rebuild our community. and another handful of people to develop technology.
$HIVE to Da Mars
Man writes the history though I'm afraid. We do need good people to build and if they can bring in a few good people and so on so on we will grow from there.
Attitude reflects leadership, so it's important that our large stakeholders act in the right manner so that the new users want to do the same.
I agree with this 100%. There is no room for hate and the type of behavior we saw with cryptofinally. No one deserves that hate, no one. We have to come up with a plan of action when the time comes again, and it probably will. How will we solve this as a community once the hate comes again to someone who is influential? Or even to those are not influential? Hate divides people. It's not the answer.