I was responding to this comment but the reply was getting long, so I posted it here instead:
No one has the monopoly on truth
So I watched your (mistakenly?) recommended video, at 1 x speed and found some parts interesting. Learning a couple factual tidbits on 20th Century European history was good.
The speaker might have greater impact on someone from a specific historical context: the abstract (British?) student he refers to a few times throughout, who was taught a particular curriculum...
As a matter of fact though, I am not that person and that's probably why my experience of it was that of watching a dry lecture.
Not much of relevance to my initial question beyond broad themes of subjectivity and history as written by the victor but on re-reading our thread I'll say it's my fault for not being succinct. Allow me to give it another go:
This ain't a personal attack and I believe (hope) you won't see it that way but: What the hell is the point of having a social blockchain like Hive if everyone's over on fucking Discord most of the time for their communication anyway?
(Cuss for emphasis only)
It's not as if I can present myself as a model of better conduct here either though; I am aware and under no illusions. Posting on average like, once every six months on a decentralised platform isn't exactly superior to "posting" daily on a centralised one (for example).
Relatedly, also, centralisation ain't the only issue with Discord.
And also—also: I have this vague awareness of a duty to prevent abuse/misuse of the chain, posted by yourself elsewhere, to be done on Discord. I can get behind that a little more (have never actually done it, though,) but again I wonder: why can't all that written communication be done here? In fact, there's probably greater grounds for transparency in that case!
Hell, I don't even know what my point is here anymore... or what it was to start with. You're not the omniscient boss of Hive. I suppose it's an appeal to an apparently wiser individual for insight in to why things are the way they are "around here," and why that differs so much from the fundamental commitment to honesty, openness and transparency encoded in the software (I presume)?
What a lot of nonsense I have just written. Have a nice day!
@antisocialist