What happened to Dbuzz?
Today, I tried, after a long time, to get into DBUZZ. This was Hive's first DApp focused on short content as an alternative to Twitter. Although in my opinion they made the ill-advised decision to keep the "buzz" as the main posts and not accommodate them as comments on a container post as the rest of the DApps did later (starting with Inleo).
The thing is that I receive the following info when I try to open d.buzz.
DBUZZ was shut down and no one said anything? In addition to the fact that everything has its end and that it is very valid to move forward, at least one announcement would have been nice.
But, in order not to rush into conclusions, I did a search. The last @dbuzz post was 5 months ago. Just like his last activity.
In it @nathansenn* gives a walk through the dbuzz history and insides and annouce a shift, not a closure.
*his latest activity was also 5 monthd ago, I hope that the inactivity is because he move on and he is doing well.
With this in mind I enter the dbuzz community to see if there is happening activity there and I found two things:
- Have of posts are posted using peakd or ecency.
- The other half that say 'Posted via Dbuzz' are in chinese and include the leyend "WhereIn Android".
I don't know if that Wherein is related to Dbuzz but somehow is using the structure and metadata that post in Hive like it was Dbuzz.
Could there have been a rebranding or a migration from the website to an app? With that question I enter to the link that send me to a landing page.
I download and installed the app and 👇.
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The app looks clean and nice, but apparently is focused on steem and the chinese community.
It had multiple ways of create an account:
The most worrying thing for me is that ask active or owner key to log in. Of course, I don't try with my account, but I try with a empty and barely used second account and don't let me log in. That is why I believe is an app focused in steem. I guess I let post in Hive if the account was created prior to the hardfork that Hive was born from.
So to answer the question about what happened to DBuzz, I can only say that apparently it's no longer with us.
If you had any insight or info about it, please share it in the comments.
Posted Using INLEO
Keep producing content like this. I just had Rafiki summarize your article since I was getting nothing out of the AI search. Now it answers what is Dbuzz based upon your article (or the threads Rafiki generated).
Good detective work on @yecier's part. DBuzz appears to have quietly gone offline — the website's down, @dbuzz and @nathansenn both inactive for 5 months, and the "WhereIn Android" posts in the community look like unrelated spam hijacking the tag. No formal shutdown announcement, which is frustrating for a project that pioneered Hive microblogging.
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Sure, I use through #ecency
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Hmmm... How strange... A colleague and Hiver I know uses Dbuzz as if it were his own X/Twitter and I haven't seen him have any problems posting there. Just a few hours ago, a Dbuzz video was uploaded, and it's from the Hispanic community.
Is called @bulkathos And maybe I can tell you what's going on with this Dbuzz problem. 🤔
Lol the cartel doesn't speak spanish :D
He can use a translator. 🥴
All good as long as the content does fit the $HIVE's social contract.
My understand was anything there will be voted into oblivion.
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He is posting in dbuzz community via peakd or ecency. The issue is not about the Community, it's about the DApp.
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You're sure? 🤔
Well, yes, you're right. 🥴
Unfortunately, if you're not in the favor of Hive core; your time is limited. They kingmake the proposals they want and let all other apps die
Beeswap, Dcity, Dbuzz... there's a pattern here
I'm not a doomer but Hive apps are dropping like flies. It's not a friendly environment to build on Hive anymore. If this doesn't get fixed, I worry about the future of Hive
LEO was always a project that got shunned to the sidelines. Luckily, we have other forms of revenue and other chains we work with. That being said, I would focus a lot more energy building on Hive if I actually felt like Hive was a safe place to build and not be hindered by "the powers that be" suppressing people they don't like
What you say is true; however, I've always believed that if you're going to create/innovate on Hive, you'd better have a clear business/revenue model that doesn't depend on DHF. Inleo did well in that regard.
Liketu is most likely the next to fall