This finally happened. We had been planning this meetup for over a couple of weeks and today we finally executed the plan. Before moving on to the details of this meetup let me first give you a bit of a background. @dlmmqb is the user who mentored me in my initial days on the Hive Blockchain. When I first stepped into the world of Hive, I was quite confused, if I put it into simple words. This isn't just a site to blog, it's much much bigger than that. There are so many native tokens, so many different communities, games, frontends, affiliations and whatnot, so needless to say it was quite overwhelming for me. Dlmmqb was there with me throughout the journey and still helps me whenever I get stuck somewhere. There's something that he said to me today, which will summarize the whole paragraph that I mentioned above:
Reaching the destination seems quite far-fetched at the moment, so how about I just do my thing and enjoy the journey.
We decided to meet at 10:50 am at the most aesthetic place of our city and that is, Seaview, Karachi. Seaview is an open to all place for the people all around the world. It's a seashore also known as Clifton Beach, the place where the Arabic Ocean meets the land. I tried my very best to reach on time as dlmmqb was already present at our decided place. I was riding a bike and on my way, while I was at a traffic signal, I took some pictures of portraying some beautiful cityscape.
I finally found him and we strolled down the sandy beach while the water made our shoes all muddy. Now, here's the thing, after this meetup, I had to go back to my hospital so I was trying my best to avoid the water but when you're at a beach it's a really hard thing to do.
Moving on to the important talks that took place between us: We're a total of 18 verified Pakistani users on Hive, as mentioned by dlmmqb and we discussed a way of empowering the community through good means. We discussed about the trust-worthiness of the users from Pakistan and why there is such a less amount of users from Pakistan on Hive. We discussed about the basic etiquettes on Hive and that was to encourage users on NOT getting involved in any sort of abuse,be it plagiarism, content farming,account farming and multiple other forms of abuse. Dlmmqb told me a story of an abuser that he caught with over tens of accounts under his name. It saddened me to hear that people tend to take unethical and unscrupulous ways of getting some extra rewards. He told me with the efforts of the anti abuse team on Hive, it's almost impossible for abusers to stay for a long time on Hive, that relieved me to be honest.
He also enlightened me a bit about the Cartel and the tribe tokens. To be very honest, it was quite compelling as well as overwhelming for me and I tried my best to absorb as much as I can. He guided me on how can we have a smooth growth on Hive and I presented him my thoughts and opinions. It was good to know that we're both on the same page regarding a lot of things, such as anti abuse, engagement, goals and other stuff.
After that, we talked generally about life and our professions. It didn't quite hit us but an hour had already passed while being indulged in all these talks. We took a momentarily break and captured some beautiful pictures.
Time flew without us having the slightest of ideas. This showed how interested we both were in listening and discussing each other's views on different things. After our walk on the beach we rode to a nearby cafe called Cafe Clifton where we had the traditional Pakistan Breakfast called Halwa Poori and tea. Halwa poori is a combination of different things which include a potato curry, chickpeas curry, bread and a sweet dish called Halwa.
After having breakfast, we went on our ways and decided to meet again soon to have another productive discussion about the future of Hive in Pakistan as well as growth on Hive.
This meetup holds a very important place in my life as I think this was the first ever Hive Pakistan meetup and we ended up learning a lot things from each other. I wish to have a positive impact on this platform through my words and guide a lot of more genuine users from Pakistan.
Regards
WHO IS HUZAIFANAVEED?
huzaifanaveed hails from Pakistan, who is an aspiring dentist, studying in one of the top notch universities of Pakistan, Jinnah Sindh Medical University.
he loves interacting with new people, making new friends and traveling the world, but most importantly he loves to make a change in this world through his actions and his words. He's an entrepreneur and a philanthropist who's been actively working with different Charitable Organizations in Pakistan.
His goal on Hive is similar, ie, to make a difference. He's here to mark his presence and he'll do it through his words. So lets be a part of his journey and show him support through comments, upvotes and reblogs.
