RE: The Brit List: August 2025

Yes, I get what you're saying.

The way I see it is, social media absolutely works better when there is a broader attention base. The value behind most of the incumbent giants of social media are not their slick front-ends, but the entrenched number of users that they managed to acquire by being early or first to market.

I think twitter has had many 'clones' arguably offering better experiences from a UX perspective, Bluesky but to name one, but what is missing? The 200 or 300 million people on Twitter who refuse to use anything else.

As a protocol, we do have something pretty unique and we can absolutely refine it. But as you say, the user base is tiny, and sadly, that is quite literally what makes Hive (not) valuable at this present time. Hive is nothing without the demographics on it. The blockchain tech, whilst novel, is not especially conducive to growing a health ecosystem.

What's more frightening, is a large swath of people appear to treat Hive as some kind of charity, and bringing more people in seems to be less important for fear of their share of the ever shrinking pie, getting even smaller.

I point out the above in context to my original post, that we constantly frame things about Hive, often excluding certain elements of it to make a rather moot point, which would have even been a stronger point had Liketu been mentioned and not Distriator.

We can debate all day about which brings more value, but i broadly think of adoption in two ways:

1. Retained HP
2. Inflows of capital
3. User activity

All of which we have very high metrics of, and at literally zero cost to Hive compared with the majority of our peers.

YET, people choose to exclude us while highlighting the merits of other platform "adoption"? Why? Cause I don't call people out for gaslighting? Are we not fighting for the same future success? Are we not on the same team? Why treat us like enemies then? Its not like we're competing for the same scarcity that my success means the failure of yours (not yours specifically)?

My ego is not above acknowledging the merits elsewhere on Hive where deserved, and I have frequently supported projects in the past that have nothing to do with us, including several on the graphic I posted above. This, while being a large stakeholder and the DHF quite literally being drained for no evidence of benefit. People can atleast chuck us a bone for having an ounce of fucking morality and not jumping on the dhf gravy train. Having a modicum of moral fibre goes a long way and trust me, I read between the lines, there isn't much of it here.