I truly hope this initiative fails. I think it’s short sighted. Perhaps if Hive already had a larger userbase, integrating a more controversial community could be handled appropriately. But if we do “get Parler and Gab built on Hive” right now then that’s all Hive will ever be. Any modicum of “success” will result in the vast majority of Hive’s content and culture being Parler 2.0, at which point myself and many like me won’t want to touch or be associated with it.

It took me only a moment of scrolling through new postings to find a newly created account posting anti-Semitic content to, in their words, “see how censorship resistant this platform is...”

I hope it’s just anecdotal, but should this end up being Hive’s path to mass adoption, I won’t be along for the ride.