If you have followed my posts for any length of time, you have probably noticed I write very little about HIVE itself. I write about games, camping/survival gear, economics, politics, life as a librarian, and whatever else is on my mind. I use it as a blog. And that, I suggest, is the key to why HIVE has kept plugging along while so many other crypto projects floundered. In fact, we came out of the severe shock of the Steemit takeover by Justin Sun with one of the few blockchain forks to outperform the original chain.
That is because HIVE is not just a bunch of crypto bros selling in a circle. We have people who are here to create content for the sake of creating content, sharing experiences with one another and fostering dialogue. A blog or forum is vastly superior to Web2.0 social media with algorithms and echo chambers. This sense of community meant the active developers keeping the chain running were able to bring the active members along when we divorced from central power, and created something truly organic and decentralized instead of the pseudo-freedom revealed by Justin Sun's policies on the old chain.
Here, you control your content. This comes with responsibility. The blockchain is effectively immutable, so every typo and vulgarity is preserved somewhere even if you edit your post after the fact. But this also means no central authority can arbitrarily memory-hole anything. Even accounts with a negative reputation can still post, and those posts can still be viewed. The only things that would get enough consensus to alter the blockchain would have to be so reprehensible as to absolutely justify the change. I am reasonably confident the threat of another Sybil attack like happened on Steemit is slim to none on HIVE.
Our best security comes from people who join the blockchain and participate in the governance process. Whether you are here for cryptocurrencies or content without censorship, you're in the right place. Read, comment, write, and help us build this proven project into something even better still. Share your work in a comment!
