Two Years of Community Building: Happy 2nd Forkday, Hive!
I noticed people starting to post celebratory 2nd Anniversary posts for Hive, earlier today... and somehow it seems like we have come such a long way that it feels like more than two years!
But here we are!
Being the "Pagan-ish" types that we are, we were rather busy, down inside celebrating the Spring Equinox, which was also first thing, this morning.
Seems somehow "symmetrical" and appropriate that a community that's all about growth would happen to have its anniversary on the day we celebrate the arrival of spring!
I Remember Day One...
Such chaos and stress as an entire community engaged in frantic self-defense and came together to create a new home.
I remember being part of the — at the time — tireless "Power House Creatives" community, coming off 3 weeks of endlessly pounding on people's virtual "doors" to get them to cast votes for the "legitimate" witnesses on the old chain... ultimately, all in vain. But at least we bought a little time.
I remember Day One here on Hive because I wrote a Introduce Yourself 2.0 post to mark my own move to Hive... and it played to pretty much an empty house because I guess it hit before most people had even had a chance to check out their new accounts...
Diverging Paths...
The rather divergent paths taken by Hive and it's original "birthplace" over the past couple of years seem to offer an interesting study in "motivated decentralization" vs. "unmotivated centralization."
I always thought there was something rather ironic about it... "J.S." jumped around like a fish on try land to have things HIS WAY, but once the bag was finally his, he proceeded to do practically nothing with his ostensible "prize."
Meanwhile, a lot of people on New Hive got down to the business of taking on all the gaping holes that always plagued the old chain.
As a result, we have a pretty vibrant and swift moving community today, with LOTS of "moving parts."
Hive is not "Perfect," but...
Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy to be part of the World of Hive... but like all communities, we have our issues, and we're definitely not perfect, by any figment of the imagination.
But this place does have a lot of promise, and above all the community is very active and dynamic, something that was sorely lacking on the original chain, long before Mr. Sunshine came along to rock the boat. There are days when I wonder whether there would eventually have been a fork, regardless, just because enough people would have grown frustrated enough at the seemingly endless ineptitude of the original STINC organization.
Of course, we'll never know... it's just speculation.
Personally Speaking...
I'm pretty thrilled to see Hive doing as well as it is!
Unlike many (I am guessing), I'm not just measuring "doing well" as a product of token price, but as a product of activity and new development.
With all the "Second Layer" development here, I think Hive is gradually becoming more and more of a "utility chain," perhaps a bit in the style of Ethereum... which is far more about what you can build ON Ethereum, than Ethereum, itself.
I just have a feeling that it's unlikely we'll suddenly see the Hive token go 10x, but we might well see something built on Hive go 10x, or even 100x. Particularly... if we end up being home to 20, 30 or more dApps with similar success to Splinterlands, and 20 more communities like LeoFinance... gradually, I think the Hive base token will be pulled along by the success of of our dApps, but we have to be patient.
But enough waxing philosophical! Happy Second Forkday, Hive! Glad to be here!
Thanks for reading, and have a great week ahead!
How about YOU? What do YOU remember most about the fork and starting over at our new "home?" Were you part of any of the community efforts that went into the initial "defense" and then the subsequent move? How do you feel Hive has done, compared to your hopes/expectations? Comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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