I try not to talk about other social media on here because cohost deserves better from me, but since first hearing about hive social, my only reaction has been "really? her??" It felt like an episode of a monster-of-the-week TV show where everyone had suddenly been brainwashed to join a new platform and then it turns out to be run by evil bees or some shit.
Being a pUbLiC fIgUrE, I felt pressured to join because the mass of people heading over there seemed greater than the exoduses to tumblr or mastodon or here, and it seemed like I could just copy my clips over there instead of adapting to a new format/vertical video/etc. But man. The questionable origin, the VC funding that is probably gonna put us right back in the same place for the tenth time, the security issues that left it dead for over a week... and that's not even mentioning how broken it was for Android, do y'all even understand how broken it was on Android???? Why the fuck are we using this? I am so suspicious.
So yeah, it is back online, but I still really hope it ends up flopping because I don't see any particular reason this Disney+ ass social network app should be the one, or any reason we should be looking for another The One in the first place. Another one basket to put eggs in and a continued reliance on social media. A lot of people are looking for a Twitter alternative, but I'm not. I never want to feel the way that site made me feel again, or get back in touch with the side of me that it fed.
I'm hesitant to provide even the bare minimum of a cross-posting feed to Hive Social, and I'm going to be giving it time and space to see what happens. But I'm still banking on a move to a more spread-out, slower and deeper Internet experience, and withdrawing the drop in the bucket that my interaction would be. I want y'all to be happy online, idk if you should try to be happy online through this app.
