RE: @ura-soul Witness Update - Anarchy vs. Empire: TRON Replaces Top Witnesses and Takes Over the STEEM Blockchain
Funny that you should mention Tribe.net in this context... I remember it well. From a community perspective, there are indeed some parallels.
I suppose the "battle" between greed driven capitalism and idealism will always have its "moments." Sadly, idealism tends to lose because we get too stuck in doing the "right thing" while not enough people are ready to do the work in a hostile world. We want ideals to come true, but few idealists are at their best in the context of "yeah, but who's going to RUN it all?"
Think early days of Bill Gates (greedy driven little phuck) vs. Steve Jobs (idealist) and how Apple floundered for years and years while Microsnot conquered the world... and it's only 20 years later that the value has returned to make Apple the behemoth it is now. And the Apple of 2020 is a FAR cry from Jobs' vision...
Meanwhile, may we all put our best foot forward...
In my understanding, the key to holding balance is to literally live in and from our own hearts. Even those who know this can forget and get pulled back into the mental-only realm. For those in their hearts, new options appear that weren't visible beforehand.. It is possible to live in an ideal way but we also need to know the underlying patterns that have been holding us back and to do our bit to stop our involvement in their creation. Blockchain tech is a great piece of this puzzle for me, but ONLY when we are free to create and support multiple fork options that allow for real decentralisation and evolution. Anything less than ideal will suck! ;)
Yes, forks is key in that puzzle.
Did Tribe.net die?