Hyves was the Dutch MySpace, and extremely popular at the time. Eventually people moved to Facebook and the platform shut down. Hyves is the go to nostalgia mention when people lament the current Big Tech situation in the Dutch discourse.
@Sebastix at the time build a tool that allowed you to scrape/download all your data from the platform. Sitting on this data, he is now working on nostrifying it, and he is even getting support from one of the biggest organizations pushing for an open internet in the Netherlands.
The potential here is huge, very similar to what we saw with Vine/Divine. Hyves itself, in its later years was bought by one of the larger media companies in the Netherlands, and since it shut down all the data and the IP has been collecting dust.
My hope is that with this Nyves project, we can peak that media company's interest, and purple pill them. Its not just Hyves, this type of organization ultimately stands to benefit from Nostr in all aspects of its operation. A nostrified hyves reboot could become a focal point that has enough traction to once and for all solve the current Platform woes our societies are struggling with.
The Netherlands has always been at the forefront of things, and in this context its a perfect candidate to give Nostr some real traction; we are big enough to provide viable network effect among ourselves (not just for the notes, but all the other stuff as well), and small enough to be like a large village where lines are very short. It does not take that many convinced people to get the ball rolling, because things are so densely networked.
Not a sure shot by any means, plenty of hurdles and pitfalls, but i do see a real path to victory here. Thanks to the hard work of everyone, all the rudimentary building blocks are there and functioning (mostly :P), making it that we don't have to ''sell'' anyone on some abstract idea, but can point to a real existing ecosystem that hold great cards to be a real solution.
Special thanks to Sebas, I will do my best to support him in this effort, i hope you will as well.
Onward,
Nostr.
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