general reasoning and intro

This "ilovehive5ever" challenge, which was actually conceptualized by @bhoa, which many participated in around our anniversary on the 20th wasn't as simple as it seems. Have to think of only five reasons for loving Hive. There are a lot of reasons. Couldn't think of just five reasons myself.

But challenge aside, there's one unified great reason to love Hive: Hive lets you make a real impact.

Hive lets you take your energy, your money, your general ability to do whatever, and help someone else, countless miles from you, in another part of the world, change their life for the better and change others' lives for the better. Recently we all seen posts from @collinz and @mcsamm about the well they're setting up in the Fawoade community (a suburb village) in Ghana for the locals who used to walk a mile to get their water. The well will be Hive-branded. These digital coins which we can't hold in our hands, can't flip on a finger, became a physical, functional well.

I don't think I need to mention all the selfless work Hive members did helping in regards to Ukraine. They can tell you themselves -- examples are everywhere. No shortage of examples of great things that are built by this revolutionary technology just through the existence of it, through the community and global unity it promotes naturally.

Now let's get down to business. I'm not a whale by any means and probably not even a sea urchin or whatever we can say comes between a minnow and something more notable. Maybe a pickerel or something. Over time and most notably quite recently I mentioned in one of the Discords that people can come to me if they're in trouble. Also with the help of @gtg we made a small fund for those fleeing Ukraine. Either way, we were able to give a few people a hand with their expenses.

offlinehive the tag

This tag will start getting some use soon. People are starting up self-sustainability projects. Homesteads and farms. I'm sure there are a lot more people in the same boat whom I don't know of.

There are currently several families to whom I've personally given and loaned funds (my loans are repayment voluntary as always) to start or expand self-sustainability activities. What I look for:

• Clear project for which funds are needed
• Reasonable and is technically feasible (for example, irrigation system for field which is going to work)
• Vetted by other community members
• Person is working or trying to work, not just sits at home doing nothing
• Opportunity to promote utility of Hive as more than blogging

Things I commonly reject are purchases of phones. It's not a good move and these create a target for theft. Any ask for phones will always get rejected and keep in mind that I know how much things cost after all these years. Food and medicine are accepted if there's an emergency.

Paid tasks for various Hive-related needs (research of exchanges or various forms of data entry for example) are sometimes available and come up. They're granted to people who ask for money in order to give them a chance to earn it with some dignity.

This same type of thing used to be something I've done locally, particularly when I needed people for work projects, but now it's being moved entirely to Hive for members of the Hive community. This is open to all individuals irrespective of location but keep in mind that in some countries a few hundred bucks go a long way and in others it's a drop in the bucket.

For this month we're tapped out of funds for any more projects but in the coming months I will make another pot for people to pull from over the late spring and summer. My team by now knows that I will make sure people eat as a priority.

other use of the tag

It is a tag for non-digital iterations of Hive promotion and local empowerment.

The tag will also be used by individuals who are not sponsored privately but who are actively using the strength of Hive to empower local sustainability projects (similar to the well). This means there is free use of the tag and I'm hoping that others start using it as well. If your workplace or product that exists offline can leverage the Hive ecosystem, then you are most welcome.

It's not a curation tag; meaning it's not a community (everyone is welcome to post in whatever community they wish) but it's a utility tag. It won't get curated by any automated means and is not profitable to use for curation purposes.

This here isn't a formal post by all means but it's meant to let everyone know what's going on and to keep an eye on the tag. I'll be asking some friends to keep an eye out as well so hopefully we'll straighten it up and this can grow into something interesting.