By aboy01 on Skatehive
The unknown is always dark at first. Explorers once wrote it into their maps, shading unfamiliar lands in black ink and filling the margins with warnings. Not because the land was evil, but because it was unseen. Un-understood. Hive was my dark place. I did not arrive here boldly. I arrived cautiously, from a distance, watching others speak a language I did not yet understand. Words like keys, power, decentralization, and ownership floated around as if everyone else had received a manual I had somehow missed. From the outside, Hive felt complex, serious, even intimidating. So I stayed away. Darkness is comfortable when it asks nothing of you. Ignorance can feel like peace. But curiosity has a way of disrupting comfort. It asks questions at inconvenient moments. It pulls at loose threads until you can no longer ignore them. One such question stayed with me: Who really owns what I create online? I had been writing, sharing, and learning across different platforms for a long time. Yet eve