RE: You Can’t Fight Digitisation
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I have this theory that the reason Hive isn't catching on is that as soon as you start there's a very visible reminder that you're a nobody.
With Facebook, YouTube and Instagram it's kind of less in your face if you're getting no views or followers - it's easier to kid yourself your a big fish because all the other big fish are hidden away - here on Hive it's kind of in your face and you feel small even if you're quite big.
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lol well I have some stake and I still feel like a nobody, I think this place does attract a certain type of people, we haven't yet hit the normie strides yet, its all creatives, finance or like homesteaders or bloggers. Nothing yet fashion, or lifestyle-related which dominates traditional social media
I get that you can still "hide" behind followers if you suck on traditional social but here I can check your wallet. I was telling @nickyhavey how weird it would be if this place does pop off and you're sitting with a massive stake and people can see you're a provable millionaire or multi-millionaire, won't it make your HIVE experience pretty awkward
Haha, yeah ditto! I think with having all that financial info on display may be another thing to put people off because it's not something people are used to. A facebook/twitter/insta/YT like doesn't have any where near as much consequence as what we have here - mixing social with finance in this way is still a novel concept but the mindset changes when you're given financial power behind a vote. Add to that, normal every day use topics and your algorithms/trending for giving personalised feeds is something people will be used to - granted, apps like dapplr and ecency are doing great work on mobile access.
Regarding the amount of stake, this is why I delegate it all out because I feel a big pressure having that stake around and the perceived expectation on using it. For me, I try to separate the two out because I don't think the two mix. I use the social sides like I would normally on social media and my upvotes really are akin to facebook likes, and the financial side is considered separately so I use services like dlease, delegating etc. Makes for a more comfortable HIVE experience for sure!
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I didn’t think of that but it’s true it’s sort of a responsibility people will look to you like why aren’t you supporting people and projects with your stake you lazy orca or whale
I think if we had options to mask wallets that may help I mean why do you need to know how much stake I have?
But I also think in crypto we tend to celebrate these things we want eveyeone to be wealthy and have more so I’m a bit torn on this one
Yep but then in the same paragraph they'll then say "it's your stake, do with it as you want" so I choose this option and if I want to lease it out to curation guilds who manually curate, then you'll probably get a de facto upvote from me anyway!
I agree, I personally don't think the wallets should be "on display", that's kind of irrelevant in the grand scheme of things!
Yes, there's a bit more openness about finances here with crypto but we are likely a minority in that sense. If you bring up finances and the same level of openness to your non-crypto friends, you get slated with, "that's a bit personal isn't it?" and other sentences. No one wants to talk about earnings outside crypto, it's considered a taboo, at least in the UK, I don't know what it's like elsewhere. But give people the option to mask their wallet section, 95% of every day normal, non-tech nerd users won't go blockchain code hunting to find it
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I think that if you disagree with the way others use their stake that's a non-starter for me, focus on your own stake, if I don't like what you do why don't I just outstake someone else and do your own thing, but no people don't want. toput their money where there mouth is, they just want to complain.
Stake is either you putting up fiat you earned or effort in the platform, who are you to tell me what I should do with either of that?
Yeah but that to me, perpetuates financial ignorance, and we don't talk about sharing saving tips or stock tips.
I don't actually care about the value you have in your account, but lets talk about the APR, lets share how our strategies, lets help each other the fuck out and stop keeping quiet and being shafted for it, you're only shy about it because you know its a shit show you don't want to deal with
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I like the saying, "when you point the finger, there's always 3 pointing back at you". Unless you point with all your fingers (like some traffic warden), then the issue you're finding with someone else's decisions/stake is usually because you have an issue with the way you go about things. I've got no time for whiners, I'd rather get things done! The stake I have here is a combination of working/time spent in creating content for/on here and working the day job to spend my money and invest in the token. I spend most of my online time here and I enjoy it so that's my approach.
Exactly, I'm pretty open about my financial strategies and try to share as much as I'm willing to share (as long as I know it worked for me and had some success - I wouldn't just BS) and people can try it out themselves using the blog as a bookmark if I've done a guide or something similar. I feel people are just scared of finances because of lack of education around the topic, this is where you and I try to bridge the gap - I'm seriously thinking of firing up my guides again and revitalise the BTC educational series I posted a couple of years back.
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I don't think it's usable enough yet for the mainstream.
NB big users won't ever come to Hive at least because they can't control the comments. Maybe a different front end would solve that?
I know what you mean about having the financials on display, funny I was just thinking this morning that it might be a good idea to make all of that stuff a little less visible!
It is kind of odd.
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I think turning off comments or moderating them should be possible with any front end while stuff can still go to chain, I don’t see that as a problem
I just think we as users should still be able to access it, I don’t believe in silencing for eveyeone but silence for yourself by all means
I think now when the money it’s not that big it’s still okay but if we sitting here and let’s say HIVE is 10 bucks and you have a million dollars account I can see that causing issues with safety and a whole lot of other shit depending on where you are in the world