First Hive Post Ya Da Ya Da
I feel like I've been putting this off until now simply because so many others have wanted to say the basic equivalent of "Hello, World!" on HIVE.
However, I really haven't. Plenty going on in my life, the least of which, remarkably so, being this hard fork to HIVE. I don't say that to diminish the undertaking. It's just that corona virus precautions, concern about the health of everyone I know and love, particularly that of my soon to be 79 year old father, and if I'll actually be working at all over the next few weeks, just seem a little more monumental right now.
And really, sadly, I know I'm not the only one with those types of concerns weighing on them. I'm surprised I haven't read more about it, but while there are posts out there, they've kind of been drowned out by HIVE.
Maybe that's okay, too. Dwelling on what's happening in real life isn't exactly all that fun. STEEM was my way of getting away, but the drama there got more intense than the inanity found out in the real world, so there really hasn't been a whole lot of escape for me in recent weeks.
Again, I know I'm not the only one to feel that from all different sides. I guess I'm just at a point where I'm putting it into words.
Observations
At the start of HIVE, things look a lot like STEEM, as expected. It's nice to see Communities migrating over, too. In fact, so much is similar, except for the name, logo and color, it's basically like being on STEEM.
I say that, knowing some will take a offense. I'm not trying to do that. I say it, because there is a familiarity to it, and that's good. While there will be all kinds of changes no doubt happening as time goes by, there wasn't a need to reinvent the wheel with a UI or HIVE interface that no one knows how to use.
As well as familiar, there's also a few bugs, which seems also par for the course. In the case of HIVE, though, I hope they will take priority and be fixed soon, whereas on STEEM or Steemit.com, stuff could linger for a while.
Looks like there's an issue with my avatar or icon—that smiling face of me that accompanies my posts. I've been thinking about changing it anyway, so maybe I'll come up with something else.
I've been able to look at my HIVE wallet with peakd.com and with keychain, but the hive.io wallet isn't giving me anything but an XML error.
Not expecting everything to be perfect, I'm just reporting the experience so far.
Kind Of Feels Like Starting Over
After a little over two years, I felt like I was kind of gathering a following. I can't quite call it a readership, since a lot of what I'm referring to is autovoting, but regardless, I'm not sure if that's going to be around at the start, either.
And since I'm not sure if GINABot is up and running on HIVE, I don't know if I'll get the notifications of upvotes like I've grown accustomed to. It's really actually been quite satisfying to hear those pings.
And then, STEEMWorld seems in limbo as far as HIVE goes because its creator, Steemchiller is on the HIVE naughty list. I don't know if he'll even want to do a HIVEWorld version or not, but STEEMWorld is something I relied on quite a bit since I discovered it some months into my STEEM journey.
I hope things can be straightened out. I've been reading comments about how some people aren't welcome because their opposing viewpoint on how things were handled early on after the announcement that Justin Sun bought Steemit Inc is considered traitorous, or anti-decentralization.
For me, voting up any of the sock puppet witnesses was a bridge too far, but so was voting up human witnesses I didn't trust or feel good about their dealings on the blockchain. I'm hoping that there isn't going to be an ongoing loyalty litmus test here on HIVE like there seemed to always be on STEEM.
The fact is, there will always be dissenting voices. And some may very well have malicious intent. But by and large, most of us will play devil's advocate or think differently because we care very much about the good of the community, and the platform.
And it seems rather hypocritical for some folks to be calling others traitors when their own actions, even if it was meant to bring to light the unsustainability of certain practices, have hurt the platform or the community to some degree.
Just because you're against one thing doesn't automatically mean you're for something else. I find myself against a lot of things lately, while being for none of it, and unfortunately, they keep coming from all directions.
Here's Hoping For A Truly New Beginning
Loyalty and trust are earned. That works both ways, even if you think you've done all you can to deserve it. There's seemingly always more to do.
Obviously, you can't live your life based solely on what others think, and no one but you is ever going to know the full reasons behind your motives, but still, we don't operate in a vacuum, either, and some way, in order for any of this to ultimately work, we need to make or way via some give and take. If we get too rigid in things, we'll end up losing the core principles we hold the most dear.
I Wasn't Going To Write This Much
Silly me.
Considering I don't even know if this will actually post. I think I figured out how to upvote since I wasn't able to do that earlier, either.
Patience. Give it all a little bit of space. Breathe deep. Exhale. Take in the new surroundings.
Let's see if we can truly take HIVE to heights that STEEM couldn't go, for whatever reasons.
No pressure, but no excuses, either.
Onward and upward.
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