Now that's quite a clickbaity title isn't it, especially maybe at these times with the markets you may think I'm being all negative but it's actually the opposite of it :D
I have a few things I wanted to randomly ramble about today, first off, and if you haven't read the "3 body problem" trilogy yet, this might be a slight spoiler in here so be warned. I don't fully remember it exactly though and doubt it's that big of a spoil, either way, the thought process there was as to how to store information for as long as possible. TL;DR was that they'd decided the best way to do so was on the outer most "planet" Pluto would be the best location to store information, somewhere inside a cave there or something - as I said it's been a while since I read the books and honestly I didn't even read them I listened to them which isn't really the same in terms of storing information :P
It just really made me think about our little blockchain we have here and how information is going to be stored kind of forever in a way, even better than information has and potentially will be stored on web2. It is kind of like a new way of writing on stone, if that back in the day was the way to store information for the longest amount of time, this blockchain may be its successor. For any new witnesses joining and running a full node they'll all have to re-download all information stored on this blockchain, that means every 1 and 0 of every dumb word in a pointless sentence in a shitpost I have ever written - and I got many of those. It's the same with the other blockchains ofcourse, but they don't store text like we do, they may store information on balances, mining rewards, and we store all that too along with a lot of other data like every vote that tiny account using hive.vote spams the chain with 0.15% votes with trailing an account that's been on auto since 2020 or every follow or reblog or custom json layer 2 transactions you've submitted to play a 
That's going to be there forever.
Forever is kind of a weird word, infinity basically, which we know doesn't really exist while it potentially is existing in parallel with our universe/simulation. It's especially weird considering how frickle life is at this point in time, let alone matter. As long as someone sees value in this chain, however, it will continue to produce blocks, even if everyone left someone could potentially run it as a solo witness somewhere in international waters out of boredom, downvoting some bots as he collects solo witness rewards and wants as much of the supply as possible which reminds of of another similar chain - either way.
I keep hearing the words "we're still early" being uttered on Reddit from random crypto users who weren't active a few months ago in those subreddits at all, everyone's easy to turn a shill when they invest their own money into a project. Doesn't matter how much research they've done or the utility it provides or security and freedom it gives its users, if they've bet on it they're sure going to let everyone know that is the best chain/token and that there's still time to jump on if you're reading his words because of course that's what'll benefit him.
I'm personally pretty sure we've already crossed the late early-adoption cycle, especially in terms of the giant chains. We have a CEO owning tons of Bitcoin while shorting fiat heavily and a few institutions following his path. We have people making life-changing money off of sheer luck betting on memecoins and losing it the next day while the masses stay silent not realizing they're the ones who made that one person you hear about on a centralized social media platform that day's day.
A few months ago I was doing some manual curation as I usually do, and I noticed a few hivers posting some content and using web2 as a hosting service, I don't blame them for that, I do that myself for convenience as well. Thing is, something I noticed was that he was linking to his web page on his hive profile but on his web2 profile there were no links or signs of that person even being on hive. Isn't that a bit odd to you? Maybe not you who are new to Hive and may not stay here for a while or come back later, but for you old-timers who've settled in and will be here as long as you can.
In one place you have this platform that not only can't censor you, can't leak your following count randomly, hide you from your followers feeds, take your value and okay, earning potential is another thing but you can still earn from curating, hp and hbd interest of past earnings, right? Not going to get into downvotes now but even there it's usually a community decision, not just one centralized party deciding - okay, I know, I know, there may be some of these on hive and some whales who some times have a bad day and no one speaks up to, it isn't perfect, but still there's already enough advantages to hive even without the rewardpool in the equation compared to web2.
So why, why are you trying to still play the lottery to attempt to attract users from here onto your web2 platform? I don't mean this in a condescending way, I'm sure many of us who aren't just hive-made content creators as it's so easy to become one and be rewarded here so it'd be dumb not to post - may have tried to make it somewhere on web2 before. The odds are very against you however and even if you come into the top 1% you still may not make a living off of it. Even if you become a top creator one day and are earning a lot more than just a living, it can all go away just like that at a blink of an eye. Suddenly your voice, platform, audience, all gone because of a technicality, report-abuse, bot-glitch, automated customer support ignorance, etc.
Why aren't you trying to get those people onto the immutable life boats instead?
I asked a few of those users I curated and noticed but didn't receive a response back which felt a bit lame.
Is it cause Hive just isn't that big yet? Are you waiting for the immutable/unsinkable titanic to be almost full before you let everyone know you've bought a ticket as soon as it became available? Or are you concerned they'll think the Titanic has a bad rep and is filled with scammers so you don't want them to know you're already basically on there even though you aren't sure if this one definitely won't sink this time?
Personally I'm at a point where I'm quite sure it won't sink, the waves hitting it may be slow and unremarkable for most of its stay at the harbor, there may be a lot of iceblocks right at the bay not letting the ship get out in the open and the moon may be in a weird spot that has kept it at low tides for a longer than usual time but the real journey in my opinion is certain and inevitable even if the thing causing the tide is the destination.
I do wonder however what it'd take for more people to realize that and if the current markets are going to be any indication that there are other things in different forms out there who are not just similar but potentially even better just waiting to be found and figured out to get people off of the chains of Southampton and let them feel the open seas of freedom.
