Dear reader. Social networks were flooded with publications dedicated to the third anniversary of this Blockchain where many of us made the decision to expose our creative spirit. The messages and videos show with joy and enthusiasm their gratitude to the platform for changing their lives, for finding in it the freedom, security and space that everyone was looking for to develop their creativity and unleash their intellect.
Web3 has apparently offered a new landscape on the Internet, an apparently safe place with many benefits, of which we can highlight monetization. But the web3 has been sold as a place loaded with individual liberties, supported by the Blockchaine architecture that since we met it with the arrival of cryptocurrencies, has established a new environment of security and data encryption.
Our favorite Blockchain: HIVE, has already been expanding for three years in terms of users and developers. Every second a new Hiver or Hiveian is added, whatever you want to call them, who from their minds are spreading in their nodes a torrent of ideas with incalculable value; text, images, videos, dapps... and a gigantic intercultural connection network without precedent and about which little or nothing has been said on both websites.
The web2 environment has as its nerve center the interest analysis of its users, a very powerful AI that allows us to reconfigure our accounts so that they adapt more and more to our personality or tastes revealed on the internet. It may be of benefit to some, but for others it is the use of our data for hidden purposes. The important thing about this is that, and despite the great legal problems that have arisen because of this AI, on web2 we can take advantage of this tool to create advertising campaigns designed to reach a specific audience.
Is there a tool on the web3 that allows us to create an advertising strategy based on our interests as artists or business? How can we use web3 to reach a specific demographic? Can we at HIVE regulate what others can see in our accounts? I still have some more questions on paper, but the truth is that HIVE has a kind of scalability anchored to our "economic status" known as HP. It is an interesting incentive that motivates users to capitalize in order to obtain curation profits. It sounds very capitalist, but we all know that the nerve center of web3 is TOKENS and Cryptocurrencies, not interest analysis.
The only interest that we see on web3 is that of investors and users when seeing the profitability of Blockchaines such as HIVE for investing in their cryptocurrencies, since unlike web2, on this website we can trade, stake and even hold your cryptocurrencies with very fast returns on investment. There is no longer a name behind the network that takes everything while you only receive "LIKES".
But my consideration goes beyond the differences that exist between web2 and web3, what worries me about HIVE, after three years of foundation, are its users. The HIVE Blockchaine comes to us as a new window towards freedom of expression on the internet, with economic benefits for our ideas; being able to express ourselves freely without censorship, receiving monetary incentives for our publications, being able to develop financial strategies and save, are part of a long list of benefits offered by the web3; All in one place. But these freedoms and access to economic benefits have been co-opted by the tastes and interests of those who act as "workers/curators." The communities have established regulations despite living in an environment of freedoms, regulations that are mostly justifiable when what they want to avoid is endangering those liberties such as cultural, social, religious or individual and that is very good.
But despite this protection of individual liberties, I have seen how the HIVE blockchain has been disfigured, impregnating it with the worst of pyramidal companies, establishing hierarchical systems where some pseudo-leaders attract users with the promise of whale votes that only reach a small group of them. Not to mention the limitations regarding the frequency, aesthetics and content of the posts that have nothing to do with the freedom offered by the use of the web3, despising the vote for valuable content just because a "curator" did not like your text not justified, or because you did not comment on other posts in three days and a long list of etc. These things only tarnish the spirit of free expression and the right to decide how I want to express myself and where I want to send my message, because on web3 we are the users who re-configure our accounts based on our tastes and particular interests. That is the freedom we seek on the web3.
It is important for me to express all these things since I continue to believe in the freedom of expression that HIVE offers, without censorship and without conditions, having the possibility of interconnecting with other cultures and meeting again as human beings with similar circumstances, with shared tastes and passions, to be able to let go of the ties imposed by the "status quo", to be able to see ourselves in HIVE as hive brothers with the same ethos and not as Herbalive employees, that our publications are valued for the quality of their content, not for personal tastes or biases of curators and that it is our time and creativity that imposes the limits.
I think we need to learn more about web3 and how to help develop it for our benefit both in the virtual world and in the real world. Both worlds are intertwined thanks to "Reading, Writing and Ownership" technology, allowing us to establish new business and promotion models that we could take advantage of to strengthen the economy and education in our cities. HIVE communities are very useful for obtaining data on the different interests of its users, allowing us to segment them culturally, socially and artistically, as well as position a brand based on keywords or hashtags. Smart contracts and NFTs could be used to encrypt documents or a patient's medical history, even giving intellectual property to any work or object.
This is where the magic of web3 is, I think we must get rid of the bad habits adopted in web2, and return to web3 with an open mind and from a new perspective, emphasizing the creation of communities that help to strengthen educational and cultural of its users, that curators do not impose their own criteria over the property of another user and that developers through our content can design mechanisms that strengthen the growth of our societies. It's the future I want for HIVE.
All this is a good topic to talk about. As a human I can be wrong, so I would like to know what you think about it.
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