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This blog's primary focus is on Blurt updates, while a portion contains cross-posting and steem history.

If you post on steem or blurt, you may want to read this. When you post on your blog, no rules apply to you since blockchain is decentralized. When you post into a community, that community can mute your post, which is still visible after a click, but curators usually avoid muted posts. Let's compare a community to a Facebook group. For example, if the Facebook group says you can only post a specific type of content; otherwise, we will delete then it's ok for you, but if a community mutes your post, then sometimes it's not justified by you. Similarly, a community can make any rule related to muting your post.

Use strong words, not free-to-use images, off-topic, and sometimes cross-posting.

So why are some communities not ok with cross-posting? It's your content, and you should be able to do whatever you want. Right? Not entirely since if you cross-post, the community can do anything they want. Stopping curation forever, muting, etc. So, it is not the nature of Hive that is censoring you, nor a mute is considered censorship since everybody can still see and upvote it if they want.

Coming back to the topic of steem cross-posting first, maybe you join Hive and don't know anything about steem. I will keep it shorter, and I can tell you a few things. A blockchain war happened, which resulted in the forking/creation of Hive. Many communities still support steem, and projects like tipu and actifit are active on both blockchains and many more. At the same time, some, like splinterlands which were steemmonsters, left steem completely. So when you post into a community and they mute for cross-posting your post on steem, then don't be shocked. Many things happened in blockchain history, and it's your job to read the history of steem if you wish to understand the mentality of different types of people on the Hive.

A further case is when people only cross-post without even changing the text (for example, the article says posted on steem)and are not active on Hive nor care to reply to comments. In this case, even if you post from:

Don't be shocked when people downvote you. Maybe not because of cross-posting since the community allows it but because of you using Hive as a post dumb yard with no engagement on Hive.

Ok, now you might understand there was a fork of steem, a hostile takeover happened (against the decentralisation), and Hive came into existence, proving to everyone that nobody can buy community. Ok, now you might understand the steem case, so let's dig deeper into blurt.

So it is blurt that is bad in my opinion; then why it is related to Hive, you may wonder. The issue of blurt has been around for a while, but it caught my attention when the vyb token launched. So actually, the narrative blurt used for marketing was that web 3 existing social media are bad because they had downvotes, and we don't control them in any way. Blurt means speaking without thinking. Blurt pitched in a way that they are the only saviours against downvotes. What's with vyb? Same not downvotes but 1000 times better and can still counter abuse effectively when needed. VYB never pitches anything like blurt also.

When on blurt, there were no downvotes, and it was not itching me to write. Of course, they created a platform, and who am I to judge. No, wrong. Just focus on the word's meaning, "speak without thinking," and soon blurt became a heaven for abusers. All you can observe on the trending page are news articles translated into different languages to farm votes. Hivers cross-posting on blurt, too, to farm a few more cents. Another case started when blurt was forked by steem. And Hive, too, so all accounts on Hive but their steem account was hacked already had identity theft issues cross-posting on steem. On steem, we can counter the identity theft, but how will you counter identity theft abuse on blurt, no downvote button.

A significant point in the history of blurt is that they started charging a fee to counter abuse.

Was it the best strategy to counter abuse? No. Countering abuse was already proven effective in the Hive. The only reason I hold Hive is that plagiarism is not allowed here. Do you think increasing fees will stop people from plagiarising? Consider it like in an exam; people are cheating. We will not hire teachers or install cameras, but we will increase the examination fee. Any human mind can easily understand increasing the examination fees is not a solution to the cheating problem. But wasn't it about the "Speak without thinking" moto? But now blurt was saying, hi, we charge a fee, so if you are new, you will be crushed by the fee. On the other hand, the Hive is very kind to newbies.

SHIT WATCHERS:

Blurt was about freedom like we were not giving them enough freedom. Hivewatchers were disrespectful, according to people who left Hive and joined blurt. But wait, what's that:

When blurt started, it was all about freedom of speech without downvotes, but now you have a centralized authority that can do anything to account. When I say anything, it means anything. The whole point of blurt was not to become control freaks. Our ex-hivers were spamming blurt is better because according to them we are satanist, control freaks. But we have a central control on blurt now; it's not like they don't have before. Just check the liquidity in blurt. When there is a rug pull, nobody will be there to buy from you.

Did you know who said the most negative things about the Hive and convinced people that it's better on blurt? The investigator hired the FBI for the Hive. I am not sure the FBI listens to him because any person with the right mindset(after digging) will see what's going on.

The promoter of Blurt on Hive says this. Like wow. If he will stop posting satanic blogs, then who will entertain me? I hope we have plenty of clowns (oh just remembered v2k). He writes good fiction.

There is always more to the story, so if you see someone promoting blurt with freedom of speech, moto tells them downvotes are not censorship. In the future, if your blurt account vanished in the thin air, don't think web3 is bad because there are already many red flags about blurt. Here is one more:

I want to tell you everything but will become a never-ending tale. Get your shovel and start digging. But you get the idea why some people downvote comment spam of better on blurt because it's bitter on blurt.

Here is something you should see before buying blurt:

Freedom on blurt........

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