Thank you Hive
As I move into this next chapter of my life, it is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to the community that I have grown to love over the last six years. I have had a great time sharing my photography with you all over the years.
Over the years here, I have shared countless images with everyone. Many of the images were created solely for the purpose of sharing them here on Hive. Hive has done wonders for my creativity and really pushed me to become a better photographer in general. When I started my photography journey years ago, it was because my memory was beginning to fade and I wanted to be able to capture memories so that I would have a way to remember things.
My goal with Hive/Steem back in the day was just to have a place to share my creativity with the world. I have done very well here and got a lot of support over the years and for that I will always be grateful.
I met so many great people here as well and had the opportunity to travel around the world to meet many of those people in person. I have done so many things in the recent past that I would not have done without the inspiration that I got from Hive and the community here. I started several communities and really fell in love with the community in general. My Photography Lovers community has grown to over 21,000 members and is still very active to this day. I have left that community in great hands and I look forward to it continuing to flourish with amazing photography being shared each day.
Hive has given me the opportunity to really learn about crypto and the potential that it can have for the world. I have been lucky over the years to have made some very good trades in crypto with the earnings that I have gotten here on Hive, and I am hoping to be totally debt free in the next six months. That would not have ever been possible without Hive, so I just want to thank you all for all of the support over the years.
The birth of our grandson has really put things into perspective for me, and that is the main reason I am leaving. I am planning on focusing more on my health, mental health and my loved ones. Life is a gift, so be sure to make the most of it. Go outside and touch the earth and spend time with family. Love is what life is all about. Thank you Hive for showing me the important aspects of life and giving me the tools to take care of my family.
You're not the first person I've met in Hive, but I really owe you some of the best moments I've had in Hive, man. I'll always remember your funny conversations with scammers on the OCD discord server, the way you guided me and gave me advice. You even taught me an English slang word (tool). Hive has contributed a lot to all of us. I'm so happy to have met you as one of the people who contributed a lot in making me what I am today. I wish you all the best in your life, I know you will eventually come back here and share memories with your grandson, but I will miss you in your absence. Take care of yourself man. I'm going to cry if I keep talking.
I am glad that we have become friends here on Hive. I hope to visit you one day in Turkey as well. I am really looking forward to start traveling again soon. I will be popping in every now and then and checking in on everyone.
You can just send me a message via Discord if you come to Turkey man. I'd be happy to have you here. Maybe next summer you can join my wedding
Wow man, this sounds like the end of an era. So many old-timers are not writing any more but you, more than others, are associated with my path here. I haven't been interacting as much as I would like but I was glad that you were still here.
Of course, I am glad for you. It seems that you are in a much better place now than when we first meet and you deserve a restful and quiet life with your family.
Best wishes from Greece!
Stefanos
I will be back in every now and then seeing what people are up to. I hope to visit you in Greece some day. Keep up the great photography work.
That would be great!
Be well :)
Sad to see you go. I always enjoyed your posts and our little conversations.
I understand fully.
I wish you well, enjoy your family and all that will come your way. It is worth focusing on. In every way.
Big !HUG
Thank you
You are welcome 😊
Sounds like a good plan. Our loved ones are the reason we are here. Good winds.
Thanks for sharing your art here. It's been fun seeing it.
Sad to see you go man. Hope to see you back here in the future!
Thanks man. I appreciate you entering my photo contests over the years. Good luck with everything.
The cool thing is you can do all those things you want to do, and still pop by here every now and then and you'll find little ever really changes, despite great changes lol
Many of the stalwart OGs have taken a year, two, off, some longer, some less between visits.
That's the magic word maybe, "visits" - you can always visit, without moving back in completely, anytime!
Fare well, either way.
Havent seen your name in a very long time. I wont be gone for good. I will make sure to check in every now and then and see what people are up to.
I had been sneaking in and out till recently for awhile. I spent the last two years barely working, dealing with health stuff and moving to a new country. But lately I have sort of dove back in here all the way. Got a witness node going in partnership with the infamous EngineWitty, called @Pollenation and I made an app called HiveStreams.Live for the community to live stream on and watch each other on. But I am sad to see that there have been more leavers than stayers around here.
Sounds like you have been busy. I hope your health stuff has cleared up. I started my health journey a little over 2 years ago and have been going strong for the last 143 weeks. We only get one body and we gotta take care of it.
Where did you move to? I would love to get out of the US someday.
My health stuff is gonna be permanent but its manageable. Had a couple hospitalizations last year though.
Im in Costa Rica, living in the northern volcano and cow part of the country, total rain forest. Very small town. Plenty of choices to exit the USA to, I picked this one after seeing 17 countries but it would likely not have been my first choice, until an opportunity opened up next door to people I already knew... from here actually, so I took the leap and bought the spot last winter. So far so good.
Costa Rica is on my list of places to visit one day. I have really been considering moving there as well. I just need to convince my wife.
Visit first, the typical "gringo" who says "Costa Rica is on my list" but who hasn't spent significant time there first, are the ones who make the stat "90% of gringos who move to CR don't last two years" a true statement. It's expensive, first and foremost, its not going to meet most North American expectations in most ways, and its hot as fuck, ALL the time. Except when its raining 9 months a year, because then its wet. AND hot as fuck too.
Good luck and best wishes! Karma pays back!
Thank you
It is strange, you know? For you this is a farewell to a niche and a community you've loved entirely... For me, it's a brilliant start. I haven't seen any of your work before this one, but you seem like an extraordinary photographer and artist. All the best for you, love! I really mean it 🫴🏻🫴🏻💫
Good luck with your time here on Hive
Thank you @derangedvisions! Good luck to you as well.
Never really interacted with you, but take care. Keep on slapping that shutter button.
Thank you
I am sorry to see you go but totally understand. Enjoy your little grandson. This is the most important thing. The door is always open. ❤️
Thank you
Noooo, not when i just started getting references from yooooouuuu
Good luck my man
you definitely helped me get out of art block
Enjoy your new chapter.
Good luck with everything here
This is touching, you have really gone a long way here in hive, hive will miss you, we too will miss your beautiful pictures and content but just as you said life is precious and needs more attention and also our family needs us, we are also part of your family now, do not just forget us all, just check on us from time to time.
My regards to your grandson and family members.
Thank you. I am sure I will pop in every now and then and see what the community is up to.
I trust you, thank you for your care and concerns for the community
As one chapter closes another awaits, thanks for sharing over the years it has been a wonderful journey getting to know many who enjoy Hive.
Go well and be safe, enjoy your family and grandson, lots to teach in coming years so health is important.
@tipu curate 2
Thank you. It's been a pretty incredible ride here. I have met some great people.
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We will be sad to see you go, and hope to one day welcome you back.
Thanks man. It's been fun seeing your drone shots over the years.
Awwwwwww, you would forever be our boss thank you sir, I know I would be a great dad
Thank you
Well, I hope you won't be a total stranger and come back to make another post here and there. I understand you want to use your time for something else but... No need to completely abandon Hive, I think. 😆
I will be back every now and then.
Hope this isn't a forever goodbye, gramps. :)
Nah, I stop by and check in every now and then. Hopefully we can all meet up again in the future and share some street food.
Best wishes in your new chapter of your life! I am sure you will have more memorable moments dedicating yourself completely to your family!
I think this is a see you later, you never end up leaving the blockchain for good! 👋
Ya, I wont be gone forever. Just taking some time off. I will be checking in every now and then too.
Family will always be more important bro. It’s great that you all are so closely knit. I am happy for you and your family 🤗
Thanks man. Sucks to see how you have been treated lately. But I guess that is just how things go here.
Sucks, but no way to change how things have gone without swallowing some whale splatttt! Life is good though, so just gotta keep progressing. Sometimes our efforts are needed elsewhere. I will always leave it up to my internal compass to tell me the best ways to expend my energy.
Retiring derangedvisions and officially evolving into derangedgrandpa. Not a bad way to spend the next portion of your life.
Didn't you add AI generated text in your posts to make them appear as if more effort went into them without mentioning it anywhere?
https://peakd.com/hive-185676/@daltono/photographs-of-my-porsche-cayman-gt4-16-custom-design-in-gran-turismo-7
I'd say it'd be quite bad if the platform didn't defend themselves from such activities by protecting inflation being directed towards that.
I couldn't even find a conversation of you arguing against it or anything, dunno what that has to do with whales. You have 80k in post rewards and a history of votetrading and maximizing which I helped you get out of but somehow you didn't know that the platform would be against AI generated content?
It's weird how the platform's to blame for what occurred according to you guys.
@acidyo you’re the first person to directly ask me anything about my GT7 livery posts outside of a watchers comment accusation about 2 months ago claiming they are all AI. Everybody else just decided to nuke anything I post in unison without a single conversation as to why.
Including a totally different kind of post such as this one: https://peakd.com/clonehero/@daltono/using-the-pdp-riffmaster-to-play-rock-band-4-on-ps5-and-clone-hero-on-mac
Next thing I knew multiple of my favorite communities muted me and all of the non-GT7 livery gaming content I’ve posted over the years now has a filter over it.
For clarity…
With my GT7 livery posts — I used the detailed historical info included for all cars in Gran Turismo 7 — the game is basically a history book for everything automotive. Also my own knowledge of the cars and then YES also used AI to help me organize said information. Lastly altered the text myself to finalize all of the writing. AI was one of several tools in the process.
Most people these days use AI for something and that includes you I’m sure. I haven’t read up on anything recently, but I thought @holozing was using AI to generate the monster artwork. Maybe I’m wrong, it’s none of my business really and frankly I don’t even care as long as it turns out to be an awesome game in the end. I know for sure @ragnarok.game was doing that with their art though, and support for that seemed to be good and no harm done.
I really just don’t see how any of my livery posts are considered “low effort” though since it takes me minimum 2-4 hours to design each livery then more time on top of that to setup and photograph them in various locations using GT7 Scapes. Hand placing every single decal doesn’t feel like low effort work to me. I’m sure there’s people who have never played GT7 and may also believe each livery and car photograph is fully AI generated too. To be clear. The car designs have zero AI assistance.
It was just a mess and it all happened right as I was about to leave for the biggest international trip of my life. I was focused on making sure traveling went smoothly and was not about to spend my travel time debating with people who had seemingly already made up their mind about me considering nobody actually reached out to me directly. So I figured I would get back to it when I returned and then start sharing all of my travel stuff from the trip. When I finally got home I had travel afterglow and felt like maybe a break from Hive would be the best thing for me since lately it’s just been a headache. I still feel that way after almost 2 whole months.
Apologies to @derangedvisions that this convo is on your post instead of one of my own.
just stick through it and clear your name? Through time it'll wash away, but backing out now seems like all that work was a waste? I would have just stuck through it bud
I haven’t quit altogether. Just hasn’t felt like a good time to come back and start posting again. The time will come eventually I’m sure. Thanks man 🤝
How did that make anything clear? You didn't address the issue I'm assuming HW and others went after you for; generated text without the mention that it's generated. You can post screenshots and stuff all you want, people can decide if they wanna reward it or not. The issue is including text you didn't create to give an illusion of "more effort" which may trick unknowing curators, communities or others into thinking you shared the screenshots and your own words behind a post.
A simple "this text is AI generated" message would've sufficed and I doubt HW would've downvoted.
You dancing around the main issue in this very comment is already weird.
If you were too tired/needed a break that's another thing, come back and explain the situation, not "blame" the platform as if you're an innocent bystander when it's clear to many why the HW downvotes occurred which they most likely even told you about.
If text is AI generated, mention it, if image is AI generated, mention it. You know the rise of AI and the issues not only potentially here but literally in schools with pupils presenting AI assisted work as their own. Would you give a presentation where none of the text are your own words without mentioning they're not?
I dunno why I'm even bothering
How am I dancing? I can put it even more plainly. I wrote it. Put it into AI to better organize it. Then made my own edits.
I was not blaming the platform. I was blaming some of the people using the platform who have large amounts of HP and trust an “AI Detector” to make judgment for them and then listen to their peers to gang up without actually digging deeper into the situation.
You can say most likely all you want, but nobody ever sent me a direct message about anything. There was the same automated comment on a handful of posts all on the same day saying “we believe this to be AI-generated” or something along those lines.
Feels like you and I have never even just had normal conversation in all of these years. At least I can’t remember the last time we did. It’s always what I’m doing wrong and how to be do better for the platform.
I want no sympathy on the matter. I had already dropped this mentally and moved on but randomly say your comment notification this morning. Take care man.
and yeah once they downvote you for something they may go after "legitimate" posts too, that's no surprise at this point.
You can still come back once in a while and check out. Congrats on the new chapter.
Thank you. I will stop by and check things out every now and then.
How touching :) Best wishes on being a grandfather, I hope you enjoy your family 💞.
Thank you. Being a grandfather is pretty cool.
Thank you so much for your dedication.🙏
Cheers for the new journey.
Thanks. Enjoy your time here.
Thanks a lot 🙏
It's sad to see my following feed getting quieter each day, but that's how it is. Most of us are here for five, six, even seven years -- that's a lot. Wishing you you the best in 'the real world' brother.
Thanks man. Stay safe out there on your bike.
Good luck. I hope that you will come back in the future.
Thanks homie.
Wow
I wish you an amazing next phase of your life
We all will miss you
Thank you
When one door closes surely another will open, and yes, surely you will make the best decisions for you and your loved ones.
But.... , do not forget that this beautiful community after so many years is part of your family and will be there for many years to come.
I hope that you find the perfect balance in your life and that everything will be exactly the way you want it to be.
Have a wonderful weekend.
I will be back every now and then to see what people are up to.
Glad to hear that, good luck.
The display of images is beautiful and quite interesting. Good evening friends and best wishes to you.
Thanks man.
Oh!
It's sad to see another friend leaving Hive but at least we met in Bangkok. That was good.
I wish you and the family all the best and I'm sure the little man will keep you occupied and busy. You will definitely need to focus more on your health to catch up with him when he starts running around very soon! Take care
Thank you. Hopefully Hivefest is in other cool places like Thailand. I think my wife and I will still try and make it out to them in the future. It all depends on the state of the world when that time comes. I cant wait to travel more.
You won't be forgotten, dude.
awww, how sweet. You have always been a pretty cool person here. You are weird like me.
All the best to you and your family!
Thanks man
Although I didn't have enough time to interact so much in your content, the little I managed to read and admire made me see what an amazing person you are. Your pictures were and will continue to be some of the best I have seen in all my life. I can only tell you to be happy and enjoy your life with your loved ones.
Today Hive loses a great member and that is sad. Just go and be fully happy. God bless you and your family infinitely. Have a nice day bro!
Thank you. I really appreciate the compliments. It is nice when people actually check out the content that is created here. Enjoy your time here on Hive.
I will miss your photographies on the blockchain! Sad to see you go, but that b focus seems to be in what matters the most. And besides, chain will be here if you choose to peak around. All the best in this next chapter, mate! !BEER
Thank you. Keep up the cool photography.
Wish you all the best!
Enjoy life :)
Thanks homie
Godspeed!
Wow friend, you have really made a great and beautiful journey here, I wish that this connection with your family, with your grandchild and with the most important part of living in the present will allow you to ‘visit’ here from time to time. And I wish your plans are going better than ever! I'm sure your community is waiting for you with open arms, I send you a big hug!
Thank you. I will be checking out the community every now and then to see what people are up to.
"It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it hundreds of times."
You'll be back.
Eventually I will. Just taking some time away from all of this.
Good to hear that :)
I'm really looking forward for the future, where eventually true photographers will run proper photographic initiatives and objective curation here.
It’s super pleasing to see you have spent such a long time in touch with the photography community. Your photos are so inspiring, I hope you have a lot of fun with your grandson. May you have the best of health. Goodbye 👋
Thank you
Thanks for your support to make Hive grow 🚀👏🏻.
Good luck in your new plans 🍀, Hive will always be here for you if you want to come back 😉.
I wish you all the best 😺🤗
Thanks
Its good to spend time with your family, take care of them, yourself but I guess you could still give a little time to Hive.
Sounds good.. thank you for the memories
You made this place better for all you did. I can definitely say your someone I am happy that I have met, and even done stuff here with:)
Thanks man. We had a lot of fun over the years. Im still gonna be a part of the cannabis community here.
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You personally, and the way you created your posts have helped me so much with my posts being a newbie on Hive! I appreciate you and everything you've done for me!
You will truly be missed brother but I understand.
Family is what it's all about. The love, the experiences and the memories that you create will forever be in the minds and hearts of your family.
I wish you and your family all the best!
Peace brother! 🤜
Take care man
Man I am glad that everything is going very well for you and your family, your photographs over the years have been very great and now that you are a grandfather even more so you must be with your family, rather thanks to you for always sharing with us your great photographs, of which you have become quite an expert in the area, I miss the ones you took of your pets, especially the cats, your beautiful pets have a very strong feeling, good luck in everything you do and above all, live longer, take care of yourself and enjoy your family good man, you deserve it, you will be missed a lot here in Hive.