RE: Curator Cat: Long-Timer on Hive — A Look at the Good, the Bad and the Needed!
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Having been here a long time I can agree with most of that. I do think that Hive is something special in a world of corporate social media. There are people here I have been talking to for years and I keep meeting more, sometimes in the real world!
The whale infighting is a problem. They tend to have strong views on how things should be, but we really are a small pond and most of the world does not care about us. We ought to be building up the community even if it goes off in different directions. So what if someone makes a few bucks doing something you do not like!
We do have a messaging system that you can access in peakd and some other dapps. It uses our standard keys and so is secure. It is just not used much.
We definitely need more cats here. They are what makes the internet better.
Lots of !LUV
I have tried to use the messaging feature in Peakd and I couldn't get it to function. An account wrote to me, I wrote back: all fine. Then they responded but I've never been able to access the conversation again. I can't even mark it as read and the alert sits there, glaring at me, every time I open the account. Yeah, I could go and ask this, that and the other one, ironically, on Discord, but I think I have to have my phone verified to use that channel, and well, you know, this is a side hustle.
I have used it with some success. It can be a bit clunky and I think it ought to be improved as people need an on-chain way to communicate privately. I sent you a message so see if you can respond.
I've pressed all the buttons on this screen and I still don't see the content of your message.
Odd. Have you sent me one?
I tried it using keychain authentication and was able to view your message, but I haven't yet found how to send one back. I find this immensely frustrating. I'm logged in, I should simply be able to use the feature.
It looks like it needs more work to make it useable.
And I can't get rid of the annoying alert, even though I have read your message! 😂
It is frustrating. I can only say that it works for me. I am using Brave browser on Linux if that matters.
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Thanks Steve. I agree that Hive is definitely special and different from anything else out there, which is why I persist here and hope that this place lasts for a long long time.
I have tried that Peakd messaging system, but I've never been able to get it to work — all it ever does is show a slowly pulsing red to pink half-screen but never goes any further. It surprises me, because the Peakd team usually is pretty good about testing and making sure their stuff is functional.
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It seems others have issues sending messages. I think it's worth improving to give us alternatives.