2017 - General purpose smart contracts.
2020 - DEFI.
202X - Tokenized communities.
Cryptocurrencies have gone through a few phases and with hindsight we can see what the market valued most during the bull markets and which platforms brought most to the crypto ecosystem.
2017 it was Ethereum and its smart contracts from which were born BSC, TRON, EOS...
2020 we had DEFI that started on Ethereum again but got most traction on BSC due to low fees and ease of use.
The next phase opens up an opportunity for Hive.
That opportunity lies in "plug and play" community token creation.
Hive has all the fundamentals to provide the crypto markets with a new "toy" to develop on due to its underlying systems in place.
I could stop here and call the post a day, claim my idea is great and look for agreement from the community. But i want to be CONCRETE here.
What does that actually mean?
I had a convo today with @jarvie in the Peakd discord on the topic of tokenized community and simplification of all systems on the UX side of things.
Im sure Jarvie wont mind me talking about it since it was a public channel.
Ill just mention what i feel are the most important points that im trying to make.
Simplifying the signup/login process and platform use by frontends by taking all the responsibility on themselves by providing full custodial services to users until they are ready to utilize the advanced features of Hive. (Advanced: Anything that exceeds the use complexity of legacy social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.)
Removal of "Communities" from frontends in the current form and seamless integration with @hiveengine to provide a 2-3 click cryptocurrency creation (Tokenized community) with a system in place that utilizes the current system with an integrated token creation, ticker requisite and a Hiveengine exchange listing.
Hive right now has unnecessary complexity hiding under the guise of "user options". The whole of Hive is booming with insane amounts of information that only the most driven people have the patience to absorb.
The way we are approaching things now eliminates any potential for mass adoption.
As we are right now, wer not a threat to any legacy social media and we will never be.
I know that is tough to hear but i see no other truth.
The only solution to this is:
Making Hive so simple to get into that a toddler can use it.
Right now crypto is gated tech and that goes beyond Hive itself. We try to promote freedom to do what you want to do but without an advanced computer use proficiency, high level of programing knowledge you cant utilize most of the tech.
For some people downloading a browser and using google is not a simple task. Buying a trinket on Amazon. Dont those people deserve consideration? Dont they deserve a chance to experience cryptocurrencies?
How many BSC DEFI token scams do you think were made by the same programmers? You think they only attempted their scams once? It worked once, why not try it multiple times?
Cryptocurrency creation has been gated by programming knowledge only a very small part of the global social media user base has, making us subject to the developer whims, to the same scams, which constricts mass adoption and influx of new ideas.
Hive needs to position itself as the FIRST 2 click token creation platform with social media focus.
If we can do that, the next big bull market will have Tokenized communities in the forefront of the crypto space attention but this time mass adoption has a chance to follow.
I would prefer SMTs developed at the base level but since Blocktrades made it clear that wer nowhere close to achieving that using Hiveengine is good enough. It doesnt matter its not decentralized at this point. Lets shed our rigid sensibilities for the betterment of Hive. Those things can be worked on.
Eventually someone will come along that will simplify all the processes required to use crypto to the fullest for the most basic of users. Something that happens with all tech. WHY THE HELL DONT WE BE THAT SOMEONE?!
Instead we focus on adding in complexity and with further development wer further and further away from the basic user. I have not seen a single thing focusing on simplifying new user experience in my 3-4 years here. I mean Hiveblog STILL has the simplest sign in process. Hiveblog, thats the clone of 2016 Steemit.
All ive seen is quality of life improvements for long term users.
You dont achieve mass adoption like that. You really dont.
And no ones thinking about this. The responses i got were: "Well, if they cant understand stuff, its their problem."
What kind of stance is that to take?
We need to be the flexible ones. We CANNOT and SHOULD NOT expect new users that know very little or nothing about Hive, that maybe heard about BITCOIN once, that are in no way enthusiastic about it yet, that are overwhelmed by information, that could quit at a second notice once they hit a single unknown, to be flexible.
To close this off.
- @peakd. Please provide custodial services through what you called guest accounts but make it the DEFAULT. Everything else ADVANCED.
- @hiveengine please consider integration with frontends and helping evolve communities into tokenized communities with Guest account/2 click community token creation.
We can sell the shit out of this. Lets not continue lagging behind everyone in the market. Lets lead the change. UX improvements are the key to everything.
Options not obviously and openly seen and easily utilized by the most basic of users, might as well be options non-existent.