Is Hive a Community?

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The Word: Community

Etymology
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”) from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)). Commūnis is derived from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (from cum (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + mūnus (“employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange”)). Ostensibly equivalent to commune +‎ -ity. Doublet of communitas.

communite
second-person, plural, present, active, imperative of commūniō

commūniō f (genitive commūniōnis); third declension

1. communion (all senses)
2. association, fellowship, community

From con- +‎ mūniō.

mūniō (present infinitive mūnīre, perfect active mūnīvī or mūniī, supine mūnītum);

1. to provide with defensive works, fortify
2. (of soldiers or sim.) to guard from attack, defend
3. to strengthen, secure
4. to protect with a covering
5. to safeguard, uphold or buttress (of a person, institution, etc.
6. to defend, protect, secure
7. to build up so as to give a firm surface to, to construct or repair (of a road, other raised areas)

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The Question: Why is it, that most folks are running behind the rich and even looking for ways to abuse the system, without understanding what a community actually is?

In 2018 when i joined there where more and more folks asking demanding some community features, which i didn't really understood, since to me (then still) Steem was already a community?!

The big fascistic exchange started... and ended in a Rosenkrieg, all because of "money". Good part of it for most: it doubled all the blockchain's crypto in a second.

When communities arrived, it didn't change the way this blockchain is working... Still too much folks are up the arse of the "rich" kings and queens and their curators. Wondering how we may could get a change of mind, i created "my own" community... ^{<see what i did there}

Though as long as one is not spending 24/7 advertising and supporting with one's own wallet, there was not much or even less interest in this. Not even from the people posting in the community. No support whatsoever... just looking for some big upvote. That's it!

And since i'm definitely not the person to go lick some to get me support of the one's deciding what's good and what not. My community never became "known". Folks stopped writing, since it didn't bring them the big votes their here for.

Most do everything to get the BIG upvote from the hive... I know, sometimes it's necessary to be a whore (Rule Nr. 69 on the road). Especially when you wanna live with the money it can make you. And with a lot of compromises included, this even works.

"Today" many are talking about on-boarding new users... to bring the fakebookers, twatters and all other social media cRyborgs over to this "decentralized" blockchain.

Though as long as this system isn't freed of all the fascistic thinking, muting "free speech" just because some Watcher doesn't agree with one's ideology, most "normies" can't be bothered to come over here.

And to make a writer, artist or gamer out of everyone isn't working either. So, no wonder there is so much crappy content. Recycled knowledge in one and a million other words... for the sake of money?!