Hive is still too early.
We're just not ready for the masses quite yet.
When one social media burns down it will always translate to more success for others.
At the moment we are watching the whole twitter meltdown as people lose their shit over Elon buying the site and opening it up to free speech and all users.
It looks like mastodon is going to be one of the big winners from the changeover as they are seeing a raft of new users signing up and have become a recognizable name on twitter itself.
For anyone wondering, Mastodon got over 70K sign-ups yesterday alone. Let's keep the momentum going! The "public square" of the web must not belong to any one person or corporation!
Now I know nothing about the site other than it appears to be a heavily moderated site operating under the pretense of decentralization.
Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit from Germany that develops the Mastodon software.
So it is owned by a corporation. Just one that's not making money form it.
Surely Hive would be a better substitute for twitter other than some sort of hard to use, underdeveloped, underperforming website that is owned by a single entity.
****Honestly. Hive is hard to use, underdeveloped, underperforming and even worse heavily moderated by a few users with large stake.
We're not ready for a few hundred thousand users. Our two best alternatives to twitter are d.buzz and leo threads neither of which is a match for the site yet. They are both a long way from the finished product and ready to take these numbers.
From what i can tell of the reaction on twitter it would seem that Mastadon isn't either.
It's just the latest flavor of the month without lasting power that will really threaten any of the established users. This is going to be it's big moment in the sun and if the team and the site isn't ready for it then they will miss this shot and fade away with all of the other twitter killers that have come and gone to date.
All of this fuss about the takeover will die off over the next year and people will creep back to twitter to check their feeds and see what their people are up to. 99% of people don't really care about privacy, decentralization or principles over ease of use and connectivity.
Even with this latest outrage over Elon it's the people shouting loudest about giving people their own freedom of speech that actually want more censorship. They are hardly going to move onto sites with less censorship where anything goes. I can't see them coming over to our dark side anytime fast.
It's always the ones that shout the loudest that are the first to turn over.
When it's time for one of the hive apps to hit those headlines I would prefer that they are ready and able to hold onto this flood of new users and open up more hive apps to the lucky people that have just discovered a whole new eco-system with dozens of easy to use, fun, polished apps that hold their attention and make them want to stay in the hive eco-system long term.
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I don't know much about it but there are a lot of things that are true here, regarding hive and the context on twitter, I think there is a missing link or conduit that leads people to the use of web3, something hybrid that smoothes the adoption.
I believe the future of hive is great and we should keep building before it is known to the rest of the world
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I think it's falling out of the early and becoming under developed now.
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I played with Mastodon a few years back. It's federated. You can run your own server for local content. But, you can subscribe to and see content from other users on other servers.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/web/@shaine
I didn't stick to Mastodo because it was, at the time, mostly nerdy types. Maybe there's more variety these days.
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Here's the same account on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
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It's all because it takes so much time for everything to happen here. Look at leofinance's development it takes ages, the same goes for all the games that were announced.
I think we just don't have the applications. Threads are nice but it's nowhere close enough to attract people when there is an easier alternative like Twitter. So there need to be two things that need to happen 1) make the onboarding process easier and 2) create polished applications that can compete with the existing applications. Once we have that, I think hive can pop off.
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Interesting read, I think twitter will "survive" a lot of those upset/leaving are the ones who've had it their way for the last few years, Elon brings some exciting possibilities for Twitter. Funny how much backlash he received after purchasing, without making any changes whatsoever...
Mastodon is an interesting concept, but much like Hive, needs a lot of work, we actually tried Mastodon before finding Hive, we prefer the potential with Hive! A lot more building to be done, but Hive is picking up some attention also.
As you say, hopefully, the Hive ecosystem can ready itself before it goes "mainstream", definitely needs more mobile-friendly Apps if it's to conquer the social media market.
Hive is in an interesting place between Medium and Twitter, from blogs to "buzzes", there's something for everyone. I think the "decentralised" nature of Hive is a big plus for those who understand it and want to put some effort into making themselves into something, however it leads to a lot of people giving up and losing hope as they don't understand or want to really be in control of their own destiny.
Interesting points Niall, and I definitely agree around people forgetting in a few weeks/months and people seeping back onto Twitter.
Although look what happened to Bebo and Facebook, both pretty irrelevant now... There is definitely a gap there for something more relevant and it would be great to see more Hive DAPPS filling those gaps, but to be fair to developers here, they have done trojan work and are a big reason why Hive retains its $0.40 to $0.50 even in the midst of a Bear market.