I must admit, I never understood the power Web 2.0 had. My wife would complain when her favorite creators got banned on Instagram and how it affected their livelihoods. I always thought, if you don't want to get banned, don't post about things that will get you banned.
Fast forward to the day, Elon started paying verified users on Twitter. I wanted to grow my account so I could sign up to get a blue check and start earning money from posting on Twitter. After all, it was something I already enjoyed anyway.
Fast forward to about 5 days ago and I got shadow banned on Twitter. As you can see from the image above, I was starting to receive almost 20k impressions a day and now I'm receiving less than 1k. Granted I'm posting a lot less now because of lesser reach.
The Importance of Web 3.0
1. Increased Transparency
On Twitter, I'm not sure who to reach out to, or what caused me to be shadow-banned. I'm not sure if it was my increased activity that made me appear like a bot, or if I offended someone and was reported.
https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1682153207491952640
- LynAldenContact
On Hive and its ecosystem, I can take a look at the blockchain and see everything that goes on with my account and posts. I can see who downvotes my posts, and at least reach out to them to understand why they did so.
2. Followers Across all Platforms
On Web 2.0 like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. my content and following have to be regrown on each platform. They own my content and can moderate who sees my content and who doesn't. If I grow a large following on Instagram, I have to start all the way over and grow one on Twitter.
On Hive my content and followers follow me across all the platforms. My followers can find me on 3speak, Splinterlands, Hive, Leofiance, etc. If a new community is created or front end, I don't have to start all over in building a following and community and hope that people find me.
3. My Account is the Same
On Facebook my account might be GnikNojSivart, my YouTube account could be GnikSivart, and my Twitter account could be GnikJSivart. If there's a new platform created that I may want to use in the future I'd have to sign up even if I don't think I'll use it, just to reserve my account.
On Hive, my account will be the same across the entire blockchain. Gniksivart will always be me and I never have to worry about someone squatting on my account.
Supporting Web 3.0
It's important that we all do our part and begin supporting Web 3.0. It won't be perfect at first and since projects are building live and expected to compete with other social media sites that have been developing/building for years with billions of dollars there will be growing pains.
https://twitter.com/FinanceLeo/status/1682085335918845959
- FinanceLeo
I've been struggling to use Threads, I'm not going to lie. I've really enjoyed it, but it seems to lag a little bit and sometimes it seems like my comment doesn't go through and sometimes it goes through twice. It's not as clean or as smooth as scrolling through Twitter either.
However, it's been the best Twitter alternative I've found on the Hive ecosystem yet. It doesn't plug up my blog with short-form content, and it has a small but great active community of posting and engaging on my threads.
I'm going to do my best to be more active on Leo Threads, posting on Hive, and across the entire Hive ecosystem. There is a lot of great building going on, and if we don't support it, buy the tokens, post the content and comments, and upvote our favorites, then why even have Web 3.0?