Which hive user: Well, I will pick @lextenebris. Why? well, simply because even when he's been pretty quiet for a long time, I know he is kind of an unstoppable crazy parrot if you know how to pull his tongue hard enough to squeeze and extract a helluva load of knowledge and wisdom about anything and all for a very amusing, entertaining and nutritious conversation of at least one hour.
Well – that's just terrifying. You poor creature. No sane person would invoke me and want to spend time! That's like saying, "you know what I really want to do? I'd like to summon a creature from the Outer Darkness and hang out with it because I am sure it has all whole lot of stories to tell me about the hideous, psychically damaging world beyond!"
I don't know what to say.
Actually, I do know that I'm currently preparing for the every-Friday podcast that I'm on, about the LBRY protocol and platforms associated.
If you're interested in catching up with some of that – and if so, there's probably something wrong with you, but at least you get to hear me occasionally ramble about things like the web of trust, the fundamental underpinnings of economics, and probably a lot of other things which could people try to avoid talking about, you can catch it.
I've sidestepped LBRY so far cos it's all I can do to stay meaningfully engaged on Hive. The Web of Trust sounds fascinating tho!!
Yes, I checked you out too... LOL... wasn't scared or deterred. LOL
LBRY is kind of a mixed bag when it comes to being "meaningfully engaged." While there is a comment system, it's not really built for that kind of architecture. It's not really a "social media platform." It really is first and foremost a "media distribution platform," and meaningful engagement is really better pursued using systems which are better at structuring conversations.
They are (according to some inside information that I have) working on making the comment system more distinctly threaded so that more conversations can take place and remain readable, but even as someone who is pretty well engaged – it wouldn't be my first choice for the place to talk about my work.
As a place to put my work? That's a different matter. Especially for video content, it's probably a safer place to put things in the long run. YouTube is on trustworthy and a lot of the other choices aren't as robust, so that is just sort of the thing. If you're a blogger, like I am, maybe a little more questionable because the platform really doesn't offer as many tools for blogging as I would like.
Because the whole thing is open source, however, there's no reason that some people with the proper motivation and interest couldn't take what's available and build a system using the LBRY protocol as the underlying transport mechanism and compete with platforms as blog-centric as Medium. It will just require some work.
Web of trust systems haven't really been properly implemented on any social media platform well yet, in my opinion. But I've been researching and writing about web of trust systems for years, and one of my most recent articles in the field leverages some of the work that I've done in thinking about integrating web of trust systems with the original Steemit platform.
One step at a time. Someone, eventually, will get it right.