RE: Making Hive A Destination
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Steem had a fairly thriving 'news' community - distilling and collecting/publishing decentralised intel for the world. There were even cases of people's work on Steem shaping world events in a variety of ways, because the information was unique and more accurate than what was in the mainstream. The community of individuals responsible for this have abandoned Hive due to a lack of whale support and because of the heavy downvoting they received here.
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I was gonna say, plenty have tried this over the last 7 years, few have succeeded.
Many were intentionally run off the platform, for a variety of reasons.
The hierarchy has not changed much.
That a hierarchy exists at all is an issue on a 'decentralized' platform, imo.
Maybe when the top 100 accounts stop taking 'all they can', we will see change at the bottom line.
Maybe not.
The taking was initially under the guise of 'protecting their stake', then became 'protecting the price of Hive' (presumably because that's easier to defend). In a way it's a shift from capitalism to 'socialist excuses for capitalism'.
Thing is, this is all a reflection of what transpires in the wider world. It's easy to point the finger at the bigger accounts - but the problems tend to balance out when 'the masses' take action themselves.. That's always an option here. We need that action to be creative rather than destructive... That would be an important step into genuinely decentralised creative process/evolution
Yes, I have been encouraging powering up more hive to change the management in the hive.
It seems to be working.
We escape this top down management scheme when we have enough stake to make those folks' time better spent elsewhere.
It's not easy to get folks to give up power once they have had a taste of it.
But, the way to mass adoption is in coin distribution, not hoarding it by those that already have too much.
Decentralisation requires actual decentralisation in order to be effective, yes.
So.. we market! :)
Unique content certainly is a part of the equation. Even some basics of what is going on is important too.
But you are right...we are our own worst enemy.
Decentralisation requires that the community makes its own checks and balances for measuring the effectiveness of those with the most power. Unfortunately, with Hive, if complaints are ignored and denial overpowers the situation - the outcome is that until things change, the community dwindles around those who are left smirking for their own reasons.