Basically what you're saying is people need leaders, guidance, direction; or in other words they need to be told what to do and how to do it. And someone else has to spend all the money ensuring those systems are in place.

No, I'm saying that Hive is complicated and poorly documented. If I make a complicated software system, I know it needs to be optimally documented in order to ensure maximum usage occurs and minimal stress on the part of the users - this is nothing to do with people being stupid, it's a respectful understanding that people are busy and don't all have hours to try to decipher the intricacies of something that isn't obvious unless you go through C++ source code.

And someone else has to spend all the money ensuring those systems are in place.

I literally wrote a full user guide for the basics of Hive - I haven't seen anyone else doing that. Trying to make me out as some kind of bludger here is ridiculous.

That sort of conditioning dates backs thousands of years. This new 'decentralized' way of life might not ever catch on. 'They' need to do this, 'they' need to do that. 'They' need to say this, 'they' need to say that.

I am describing the science and art of product/systems design. You can create systems and not explain how they work, sure - but it won't be a failure to grasp decentralisation that causes people to avoid it.. It will be that they don't have access to what they need in order to feel like adopting the system.

Yet when you look around at any success story here, whether that's a game, app, or even a content creator; what they all have in common is they did not ask for permission or depend on anyone else.

I'm not saying anything about asking for permission.

I don't think PeakD is clunky at all. Steemit in the earliest of days was, sure, but there's no need to use that experience as an example for today's experience. Progress has been made and will continue.

I'm not so much talking about PeakD as I am talking about the underlying infrastructure and community 'norms' (that aren't even norms but are simply beliefs held by a variety of people that often clash and cause new users to give up).

You make people who value free speech sound like a bunch of cowards. You make it sound like 'free speech' should go back to being sorted by algorithms then tucked gently inside the correct echo chamber web 2.0 style.

That's not even remotely what I am saying here. I am saying that Hive requires a certain level of attention to detail, maths and systems that is very uncommon in online experiences. Certain types of people find it normal and adapt, whereas other types just aren't adapted to thinking these ways and give up. It has zero to do with people who value free speech being cowards.