Decentralized platforms come with lots of optimism where you make rules for your content, and nobody can break the rules. In centralized social media, you can't even talk freely; you have a fear of being banned. Centralized systems make their own rules which everyone should follow. They change rules according to their needs.
Recently YouTube banning accounts and videos regularly because of free speech.
You all know Twitter even hid past US president Trump's tweet; whether he tweeted rubbish or not, he has the right to talk.
And Facebook banned me from commenting on the group for a few days because I posted my own website's link to my own Facebook group 10 times a day! Like seriously?
Look how centralized systems are changing you with their own rules. You have to talk, write and make videos according to their logic. Let the people decide what they want to see; let them decide what is right or wrong. Don't decide right and wrong for the whole world from Silicon Valley!
We have now Decentralized Mastodon, an alternative of Twitter.
We have Hive, an alternative to social media like Facebook or Reddit.
We have Threespeak, DTube which are alternatives to YouTube.
It's time to create more alternatives. It's time to change social media with Blockchain technology.
Hive Blockchain and DApps
Hive has already designed a well-organized ecosystem for the Dapps developers to build decentralized applications with a more extensive user base. Many Dapps and services created the ever-growing Hive Ecosystem by operating in the Hive blockchain.
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At this moment, we can see from Hive.io that a total of 36 Dapps is developed and running on the Hive blockchain. Here's the list of all Dapps -
| No | Dapps | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splinterlands | Games |
| 2 | Hive Blog | Social |
| 3 | Peakd | Social |
| 4 | Esteem | Social |
| 5 | Actifit | Health |
| 6 | 3speak | Media |
| 7 | DTube | Media |
| 8 | LeoFinance | Interface |
| 9 | Steempress | Utility |
| 10 | VIMM | Games |
| 11 | DPoll | Games |
| 12 | TravelFeed | Games |
| 13 | Kryptogamers | Gambling |
| 14 | D.Buzz | Social |
| 15 | DLease | Finance |
| 16 | STEMsocial | Education |
| 17 | Quello | Social |
| 18 | Sports Talk Social | Social |
| 19 | LeoDex | Exchanges |
| 20 | Hive-Roller.com | Gambling |
| 21 | Rewarding | Utility |
| 22 | Engrave | Interface |
| 23 | Dominuus | Games |
| 24 | Pinmapple | Interface |
| 25 | Raven | Social |
| 26 | Haveyoubeenhere | Interface |
| 27 | Ecency | Social |
| 28 | CryptoBrewMaster | Games |
| 29 | Rabona | Games |
| 30 | Rising Stars | Games |
| 31 | DublUp | Gambling |
| 32 | NFT Showroom | Interface |
| 33 | Hypnochain | Social |
| 34 | OCDB | Finance |
| 35 | Engage | Social |
| 36 | Exode | Games |
As of 21 April 2021
Collected from Hive Dapps
The number of Dapps on the Hive blockchain is increasing fast. But here, I will try give little insights of my top 3 favorite Dapps -
Hive Blog
Hive Blog is one of the first and largest Dapps on Hive blockchain. Hive Blog is a social network as well as a blogging stage. At an elementary level, it may seem like another social network like Reddit to you. Because, almost all the features of Hive are like Reddit.
Like Reddit, you can upvote(Similar to like), comment, repost other users' posts to your profile, follow other users to get feed, follow any topic you like, and create new posts by yourself. There are a lot of features that a social media and blog should have.
I already wrote a lot of articles on the Hive and Hive blog. You can check this article to know more about Hive Blog.
Just yesterday (21 April 2021), 21,967 posts has been posted on Hive Blockchain using various Dapps. You can follow @penguinpablo to get Daily Hive Stats Report.
Leofinance
Leofinance is a blog where you can earn money by writing or posting articles, videos, or blog posts, just like Hive Blog. But unlike Hive Blog, you can use Leofinance only for finance-related posts. Other topics are also allowed as long as it's related to Leofinance blog.
Check out the homepage of Leofinance, and you'll see lots of bloggers are earning some decent money just by posting their finance, money, or crypto-related posts and videos. Though it's a finance-related blog, still you'll have plenty of writing choices. Some bloggers post about crypto trading, price prediction, trading strategies, and some are writing about finance ideas and personal finance. That means everything is allowed here, as long as it's finance-related.
Moreover, you can earn by commenting, delegating, and curating content.
3Speak
If you are a video content creator and want to earn your first dime from your video, you should go for Threespeak. Threespeak is a decentralized video platform developed on Hive Blockchain. I already talked about 3Speak here
You can add your Hive account to Threespeak using Hivesigner just after signing up. 3Speak is a new site that is passing its younghood. It's developing day by day, which could be an excellent alternative for YouTube. The great thing is this is the platform where you can start earning from your first video, which is pretty much impossible on YouTube.
Our data, our privacy isn't ours anymore. Our fate is depended on centralized platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google Docs, Amazon, Netflix, eBay, and so on. That means if someone hacks into the central database of Netflix they can easily get your credit card details and do scam! Do you remember the credit card scam incident of Walmart? In centralized platforms, your data, money nothing is safe anymore.
Nowadays, slowly people are demanding more privacy with their data, more authentic information online. We need the change. I think that decentralized technology is the imminent future of the web. It's time to adopt the technology which can provide us more privacy, more security with our transaction, and immutability - Blockchain technology!
It's time to adopt Blockchain technology! It's time to start using decentralized internet!