Thanks for your support and suggestions :)

I have invited my followers from various platforms to join me here on Hive (and Steem) for 5 years. Only a few have done so, and none of them enjoyed the experience, quickly abandoning their accounts. Sadly, not even people in alternative circles such as precious metals investing, cannabis, libertarianism, and freedom are quick to embrace this blockchain. There are barriers many people just don't see a need to overcome. Of course, I will continue to hold out hope that it can change. That said, many of my supporters are small independent content-creators like me, with little or no capital other than their skills and efforts. Not to mention activists. Most of us have already given everything we can toward our causes, and have nothing to invest in Hive other than our footage, firsthand accounts, photography, strategies, inside info, documentaries, etc. Asking us to come up with money to fight investor whales with millions of HIVE is not realistic. We've already put all we have into HIVE. I invested 0.2 BTC (my life savings) at $8 in 2017 and after 5 years of fulltime work I'm still underwater. I'm already all in, at 18000 HIVE. I don't know anyone else who wants to buy HIVE. It sounds great on paper but it's not going to save my account. I just got another huge downvote, completely destroying a post I was proud of.

Looks like the strategy is to downvote my posts to $0 just before they hit 6 days. That prevents anyone from seeing or responding to it, cuts me off from every getting another HIVE, and drops my reputation down closer to being grayed out and hidden. I've seen it happen to dozens of great channels here, so I'm sure it has actually happened to thousands. It's one of the main reasons HIVE can't succeed - everybody knows only a small insider group can be paid for their content, and the rest are downvoted to $0 and driven away.

Your comment (and your post) touched on a great point about forming groups within a decentralized world. You're very right that this is a major challenge to be overcome, and I thank you for putting resources and effort toward that end. I've often noted that networking and organization within a decentralized platform/community is important, but difficult. One problem is many within the decentralized world don't recognize the need for it. Another is the difficulty in actually making it happen, since decentralized individuals are disorganized by nature, and little methods currently exist for networking. I've also seen this before when doing grassroots activism. Each activist is essentially a free agent, decentralized from the government and each other, with no leader. This is both a strength and a weakness, and I see the same thing here in the crypto world going forward. Identifying and leveraging those strengths could be a worthwhile goal.

Thank you for the discussion. I'm following your channel. Do you have any particular tags you like or recommend?