RE: A guide to Hive - from my experience

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You're right. I could have done that. But I wanted to start from scratch again to see how the experience for new users is.

So far, I have to admit that the initial user experience is horrible if you sign up via @peakd and run out of resource credits after a few clicks and then have to wait two days to be able to interact again with people. 😁

This is very frustrating for newbies or is there anything obvious I'm missing here? I understand that resource credits are related to the funds in ones wallet but penalizing engagements of new users still seems counter-intuitive to me.

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There has to be something like this or people would create lots of accounts to spam. I have delegated to you, so you can be more active. There are various projects that will delegate to newbies. Some of those look out for people signing up to offer help.

We can now delegate RCs instead of HP for accounts that do not need voting power.

Did you recover the funds of your old Hive account?

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Thank you so much for delegating RCs. That's very much appreciated. 🙏 I didn't attempt yet to save any funds from my old account but there wasn't much on it anyways...

I see that many things have changed indeed. It's a bit like #Mastodon: Cozy but not too newbie-friendly. ;)

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Each platform has its own flavour. I find a lot of Masto people to be very hostile to crypto, but that may be based on lack of knowledge and general FUD. We know it's not all scams. I still see potential in Hive and I've got a lot of friends here, so it's worth my time.

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I agree completely. I wrote an article about this some time ago but so far nobody has bothered to address my arguments in any way, shape or form 😉.

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I expect not many people saw your post, but discovery on Hive is lacking.

I skimmed the article your were answering and your document. There are lots of dimensions to the arguments about web3, as you covered:

  • Environmental. Not such an issue for Hive
  • Technical. I think Hive can handle a lot of transactions, but there will be limits.
  • Security. Either we let someone else have ultimate control of our accounts or we take responsibility. For the latter it helps to have some ways to recover it if you get 'p0wned'.
  • Scams. It can be hard to know if the people behind a blockchain have good intentions, but that can also apply to corporate platforms. You may not always have ways to chase them through the legal system.
  • Political. The freedom of blockchain can attract 'alternative' beliefs and some will be put off by that. The Fediverse seems full of open source believers who can have fixed views on how things should be.
  • etc etc

Some people are never going to accept that crypto/web3 is a solution to anything, but I think it has a place for those who accept its limitations. Personally I have been put off corporate platforms by things like Google shutting them down and the descent of Twtr.

I think Hive answers a few of the criticisms and is the best solution I have found to many of the general social network issues.

I will say that I was a fan of Web3.0 semantic technologies and played with some of them. I saw a talk by someone about that at a blockchain conference a few years back, so it may still be actively developed.

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Very well written. There's nothing to add from my side and I completely agree. Nothing is perfect and Hive certainly isn't a substitute for any of the big social networks. But it can be an interesting addition if you handle its limitations with care.

Thanks a loot for your reblog. 👍

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