Hello everyone! Zak here from Cape Town, South Africa.
I thought I would write a little about this subject of the Hive Community.
Generally, there are two kinds of people when it comes to this subject: Optimists and Pessimists.
Let's deal with the Pessimistic: There are too many bots and fake people and scammers! Hive can't grow because there are actually not that many people really doing anything.
Do bots, fake people and scammers exist? Of course they do. They do everywhere on the internet and wherever things become popular, the quantity of chance-takers will increase! Look at Facebook and X! Full of fraudsters and crap!
Optimists: Hive is the best and most ultimate thing in the world! This is going to change everything on the internet and the world economy!
Well it certainly has the power to influence things! But I hardly think that it is going to change drastically and never immediately.
My philosophy and thoughts go to a third route and sort of in the middle.
Something that annoys me about both examples above is that those sorts of people create the error for themselves in BOTH cases because with both of them, these people somehow believe in the power of the Hive blockchain somehow being external to themselves.
Therefore the Pessimist believes that they can do nothing to influence their problem and the Optimist believes that the superpowers beyond them will look after them and they accept no responsibility for anything that is going on!
Fundamentally wrong!
Hive is meant to be web3. Decentralized. Therefore there is no central agency. Yes there are whales and they have the majority share, but whales have nothing without the community.
Therefore the 50ish Whales need the Hundreds of Orcas, the Tens of Thousands of Dolphins, the Hundreds of Thousands of Minnows and the Millions of Redfish!
Yes. The numbers of registered accounts are not the same as the active and real body-count of Hive. But that number is constantly growing.
Yes, some will join and do nothing. Join and blog once or twice and bail. Some will blog for a whole year and dissapear.
But I have been here long enough to know that sometimes all you need to do is to have people register and keep their keys.
Some lurkers start up almost a year after opening their account. Some that go away come back again after a break. I did. And I thank my lucky stars that I did and that I worked hard on Hive since I returned.
I have made a home here for myself and my family. I have made friends here. I have brought many friends here. Some are still active and some are not.
I have also managed to make something from my content, which I probably would not have been able to do as a small-timer on Youtube or elsewhere.
These funds are not the amount that would enable me to retire. But they have managed to bail me out of the doo-doo time and time again! Really really a life saver.
I am not the only one! And for that I am super thankful!
Where would I be if it were not for Hive? There are so many things that it has helped to pay for!
I am super grateful of this and that is what prompted me to write this post.
The concept I wanted to share is this: The power is in YOUR hands! If you work on it and your community of friends work on it, you can create anything on Hive. Ignore the nay-sayers and the bots and do your own thing!
That is what I shall do and keep on growing with my group of people on Hive and make new friends every day!
Go out there! Blog, Engage, Support!
Cheers!
@zakludick
