🧡GET READY for HIVE THRIVE! || Ep. 62 - Tue, 23 June, 6pm UTC || Guest @ELMERLIN for @LikeTu! 📸🧡

THE WHAT

Hey everyone!👋🏽 Many of us seek out LIVE Hive events. If you haven't joined us yet, let me introduce our show. We are Hive Thrive Community Hour and we're about getting to know each other off-chain in a social audio space that supports what our community is doing on-chain.

THE WHO for Episode 62

🎙 Hosts — Hive account@alessandrawhite & Hive account@shadowspub
🌟 Guest — Hive account@elmerlin of Hive account@liketu & liketu.net

THE WHEN & WHERE

📅 Tuesday, 23 June at 2PM EDT | 6PM UTC | 8PM CEST
📍Hive Discord General Voice Channel

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Let's Get to Know Hive account@elmerlin and the Growing World of LIKETU !

Long before Hive Thrive existed, Hive account@shadowspub and I welcomed Hive account@elmerlin onto our previous live social audio show, HiveSpace, which was broadcast on Twitter/X. At the time, Hive account@liketu was a stylish photo-sharing project that some on the chain were calling Hive's answer to Instagram. Fast forward a few years and we're excited to welcome him back, not just because Hive account@liketu has been completely redesigned, but because it has quietly grown into it's own ecosytem, ripe with features, perfect for creating meaningful content on the fly.

If you've spent any time on Hive, chances are you've seen Hive account@elmerlin around. He's known as a crypto evangelist and investor who rocks out the Hive rankings as one of the 30 top Hive Power holders, all while remaining one of its most active builders. While many projects launch with fanfare and then fade away, Hive account@elmerlin has spent years steadily expanding, refining, and reimagining what a mobile-first social experience on Hive could look like.

Alongside Hive account@liketu's familiar social sharing features such as Moments and Stories, there are other new features like Shape, Speak, and Wild.🐦 Some help people create. Some help people communicate. Some help people explore and document the world around them. Wild, my fave new feature, reminds me of the Merlin Bird ID app that I discovered on my recent trip to Scotland. Similar in some ways to Merlin Bird, Wild encourages users to discover and share nature in a way that feels both educational and fun.

In doing the work to get ready for our guests, I practice describing Hive projects. So here's my elevator pitch for LikeTu: It's a mobile-first Hive platform that feels a bit like Instagram, a bit like Snapchat, a bit like Canva, and a bit like Merlin Bird. It's got the creative app ecosystem you'd expect from a startup with a much larger team. It is driven by one Hivian's vision of making Web3 feel less intimidating and more human. Rather than simply asking people to join the blockchain, Hive account@elmerlin is focused on giving them fun reasons to sign up and irresistible reasons to stay.

For Hive account@shadowspub and me, this episode feels a bit like a reunion. We first met Hive account@elmerlin when Hive account@liketu was still in its early iterations. Now we're catching up a few years later to explore how the project has evolved, what inspired the redesign, what all these new tools actually do, and where he sees the future of Hive account@liketu and Hive heading next.

If you've ever wondered what happens when a long-term builder combines creativity, curiosity, and an almost stubborn commitment to improving the Hive experience, this is one conversation you won't want to miss.

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Get Ready for the Episode 62! 🎙️

This session will be bumpin',so you won't want to miss it!

Mark your calendar 🗓️✍🏼 for 6pm UTC, Tuesday, 23 June.

We’ll have fun as we talk visual & audio posting, creativity, Web3 publishing, internet culture, building original IP on Hive, and what happens when a madly talented Hivian decides to make something we didn't know we needed. 👏🏾👏🏽👏

So invite a friend, come a little early, bring your best brew 🍺 or IrnBru, and grab the best seat in your house! 🛋️ See ya there! 🥰

Please say you'll come!
It'll be more fun with you there! 🥳

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About Hive Thrive Community Hour

Hive Thrive Community Hour is our weekly town hall for builders, critics, and curators.

Each week we slow things down, ask real questions, and let ideas breathe in real time.

There are no scripts. No talking points handed out in advance.
Just open conversation about Hive. We discuss its culture, its economics, its people, and the future we’re all quietly shaping together.

We Explore...

• Why Hive keeps attracting people who claim not to care…but clearly do
• What actually creates value here versus what we pretend creates value
• The psychology of the downvote button
• Whether Hive is anti-fragile or just stubborn
• And why everyone thinks they could run the DHF better

There may be hard truths.
There will be laughs.
There'll likely be awkward moments (it happens!).

Hive Thrive Ain't Just Another Discord Show 😄

We treat it more like a live town hall for the blockchain. It's a place where all of us can share the same room and talk about what is shaping Hive.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking about Hive — what works, what doesn’t, or why it somehow keeps pulling people back in. You’ll probably feel at home with the likes of us. 🤗

What we’re trying to do

• Help people understand what’s actually happening behind the scenes
• Reveal the real stories behind Hive’s institutions and projects
• Talk openly about governance friction and systemic issues
• Look for ways forward that strengthen the network instead of dividing it

Hive is a wonderful and remarkable experiment🔬. And like any experiment, it works best when people are willing to talk honestly about it.

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Meet Your Hosts 🎙️

Hive account@shadowspub
10 years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of Hive Thrive, host of Hive Witness Chat, and long-time signal booster for emerging voices.

Hive account@alessandrawhite
Hive Conference Speaker, founding host of the Daily Hive account@creativeworkhour, clarinetist, industrial designer, & hardcore Hive Meetup junkie since 2022.

Hive account@buttcoins Hive OG since 2017, community builder, musician, and all-around Butt who somehow keeps saying yes to more projects.

Hive account@meno
Legacy Hivian, luthier by trade, Herzogian by hobby, cheese oligarch by appetite. Master of ceremony and master of BBQ.

We Don't Run the Show Alone!

The show would not go as smoothly as it does each week were it not for Hive account@thekittygirl, who pings our Hive friends on Discord for the show to start & who drops a resource link in the text channel faster than a dog on dropped bacon. We appreciate you, KG! 💐

Thanks go to Hive account@ecoinstant who has kindly archived our past episodes.🎉
If you missed any of our shows, he has posted them on his Deep Web3 Secrets YouTube Channel.

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HIVE THRIVE COMMUNITY HOUR —

"Where The Blockchain Thinks Out Loud!"

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