Wow, that was quite a thought provoking read.

First of all, I detected some compliments in it and for those I am flattered and honored and grateful. Thank you. I feel seen.

But along the lines of feeling "seen", I know that not everyone "knows me". That's a big reason I wrote this manifesto in the first place, it introduces the philosophy of HiveStreams.Live as #MadeInHive #MadeWithHive (can't decide which tag I like hanging my hat on more yet, but I feel like they are both sentimentally accurate)

But it also introduces the philosophy of @SirCork - the me behind the app, profile, witness and community presence.

I have literally had my heart swelled by this chain and its people. I have also had it severely damaged and shattered to broken pieces by this chain and its people. Via technical challenges, platform-governance-political challenges, relationship challenges, creative challenges...

But I BELIEVE in this place. I don't BELIEVE we need to pander to the entire world of crypto and other chains to build our own house. I don't BELIEVE we need to do anything but build our house, and leave the doors open to people who want to visit it, but maybe not move all the way in, HOWEVER, I do believe that if you believe in this chain, you will move in, make it your primary place to be, socially, communally, creatively, financially, philosphically, and well, yeah, you get the point there.

This is my crypto home. I live in it, surrounded by others who have made it their crypto homes as well. We live in a society of our own making. By design and definition and rule of chain-code-law.

Now, about some of your more salient and controversial points, all fairly aptly summed up as "the foibles of DPoS governance and ecosystem issues caused by it"

Yeah, that's a thing. A thing that contributes to the above heart health, both positively and negatively.

But it's a thing that has kept this place alive in all it's incarnations for almost a decade now, which cannot be said for all the dead chains of lore that didn't cut the mustard with their approaches. RIP those dead chains and ideas.

But most of all I want to address it head on, with regards to myself because of this remark you made:

Whether or not SirCork has any such intent is not within my purview, nor even my interest. However, any platform that seeks to succeed on Hive alone will depend on support from that oligarchy, because they have the bulk of stake on Hive. My posts will certainly not attract financial support from that source, and SirCork's may appear to be tailored to that reality for the obvious and apparent reasons I have mentioned.

If it hasn't been apparent from my LONG history of tilting at the power windmills on this chain, calling them out from @Ned on down the list, when they deserved being called out for what most would consider gross behavior in the eyes of the community that is the bulk of this place, regardless of their wallet sizes...

If it hasn't been apparent from ALL of my posts about HiveStreams.Live that I have not only asked for nothing from ANYONE for help on this project, technically, financially or otherwise, but in fact have been steadfastly against that, repeatedly and finance it from my own wallet, blood, sweat and tears and overnight coding sessions for 20+ hours straight and on and on...

If the conversations I've had in discords haven't been seen by all the people, well, thats how discord works, you gotta be there to see those, but yeah, more of the same, I won't be making a DHF proposal for this, I won't be asking the community to pay for it's development or life support, and there will be no stoopid HiveStreams Rally Cars, unless some creator thinks that its a cool way to get views and does it themselves, for which I'd be flattered to see the logo on a car, sure, but I sure as hell won't ask people to PAY for one FOR the site...

I was NEVER here "for the money" really, or I'd have a lot more of it. I was here when I could have stood up a vote bot for sale, made tons of money like some of the other well known folks still around here did to fill their wallets.

I was in a position several times to take advantage of advantages offered to me by "who I knew" and their big wallets, and what did I do? Started public feuds with half of them for being users and abusers, of people, of the funds from the chain, of how they ran the company that used to own the old chain before Hive and so on...

I can be accused of MANY terrible traits, I am sure, but if there is one I cannot acknowledge as true, it would be that I am or would pander to the "powers that be" big stakeholders.

If they approach and engage and like what I am doing, I am not AGAINST working with somebody with money - but only because it would further the technical capabilities of the HiveStreams project, the visibility of the project to users who may not have known about it, or in general things that will provably benefit first the users of this Hive ecosystem, and second, the users of the HiveStreams.Live tool, and third, the fundamental principles of it's open nature. No community overlords saying who can and can't broadcast, or watch, like some f the prior projects of this nature have been, even ones I built before, purpose built for specific communities like MSP Waves was when I built it. It was a different kind of thing, and walled for reasons, but this time, I am superceding that old thing with this new thing. A platform for EVERYONE in HIVE to have a HIVE based streaming home.

No matter their wallet size, I am listening to their input in my HiveStreams discord, and doing "the next right things" by considering all of it and making decisions based on it combined with technical feasibility and how frigging hard some of it would be to do in code. That's about the only drivers of how I decide what it can, should and will do next. I would like it to do all the streamer things that the big majors do, but they have been building their apps with 50 devs, for 20 years, with a billion dollars. I'm just a guy. With no money. And some ideas.

But the main idea here remains:

#MadeInHive

For all the wins and losses, pros and cons, whales and minnows, that the Tag invokes.

Thank you for your deep feedback.