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17 Jan 2024 7 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
An article on Mashable pinpoints 2018 as the turning point for deplatforming. Designed to combat toxic hate speech online, it’s been used against such heavyweights as Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Laura Loomer. Jones is famous for peddling a boa...
10 Jan 2024 11 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor
Hive is a Web3 social blogging platform where users can earn crypto rewards for posting and curating content. Unlike legacy social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram, users can monetize their content from Day One. You don't need mas...
3 Jan 2024 4 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
If I were to ask you how much money you're making on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly known at Twitter, would you have an answer? Currently, Facebook is the only one of the three that doesn't allow creators to monetize their Facebook cont...
27 Dec 2023 9 minute read 12 comments Allen Taylor
I'm writing this post in response to the #hivehighlight2023 challenge presented by @hiveio. You can read about it here. As an introduction, regular readers of my newsletter and Web3 social media outposts know that I've been reporting my Web3 social...
20 Dec 2023 8 minute read 11 comments Allen Taylor
Earlier this month, Hive users gathered for the monthly Town Hall on X (formerly Twitter) to discuss whether Hive rewards should be discontinued. While I didn't speak during the Town Hall, I did find the discussion interesting and engaging. The conve...
13 Dec 2023 7 minute read 5 comments Allen Taylor
One of the things I appreciate about some of my favorite witnesses is that they publish regular reports on Hive metrics. @arcange and #dalz are two of the witnesses that do this on the regular and I appreciate both of them for it. 12 days ago, @dalz...
6 Dec 2023 8 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor
Once again, I'm back with my monthly Web3 social media earnings report. Before I get into the meat of it, let me just say that some people are under the impression that the small earnings received each month aren't worth the effort put into earning t...
29 Nov 2023 6 minute read 17 comments Allen Taylor
Regular readers of this newsletter know I am sold on Hive. I like Web3, for the most part, but so much of what calls itself Web3 isn't really Web3. It's become a buzz word, something founders and developers say about themselves in an attempt to sound...
15 Nov 2023 6 minute read 15 comments Allen Taylor
Almost everyone living today has lived under a centralized, managed economy their entire lives. Psychologically, that makes it an uphill battle to convince most people that decentralization has greater benefits, more upsides, and limited downsides. I...
8 Nov 2023 3 minute read 22 comments Allen Taylor
Readers of my book Web3 Social: How Creators Are Changing the World Wide Web (And You Can Too!) and my newsletter are aware of the fact that I like to encourage people new to crypto as well as the crypto-curious to use Publish0x as a jumping in point...
