I heard an inspirational saying once. "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." And inside was a picture of me, somehow. So from that point on I became better friends with myself.
Now, if that lame ass joke was to be included in one of my posts somehow, I'd be sitting here for an hour staring at it, reworking it, until it's actually funny haha and not just funny huh?
No, not everyone posts like me. I create all the art and try to make the thoughts flow. I focus on entertainment. I might be the only one who does things, that way. People seem to like it and I enjoy doing it. It's my style I guess. Everyone has their own style in a way. So if you're new to content creation in general just know the style develops over time. I taught myself everything I know. Looking back at some of my first stuff I published here, I think it's total crap, but at the time, it was awesome.
As for 'levels', I dunno. I'm just some dude that writes shit from time to time and makes weird pictures on a laptop, and for some strange reason people like it. I think anyone can do it, their way, if it's what they want to do, and find success.
i very much appreciated the joke. i like absurdity. i mean, everything is absurd when i really think about it, and i prefer to enjoy life after all.
though it's almost 5am and oh- holy hell, i've been using this site with the zoom level set to 80%. i was about to say how difficult it was starting to get to read the text on my screen when a thought occurred to me. i had been thinking how this site must have had parts of the UX handled strictly by a programmer, but nope, i'm just an idiot.
and yes i know what you mean about developing a style. over on DeSo getting to a style felt organic, somehow in less than 2 months i made it into the top 10 of all users in terms of engagement (for this last week) when i never had any social media presence outside of just school friends in the past. it feels a little weird now being in a strange land, maybe i worry my style might becoming tiring in a longer format, but it's good to challenge myself. and i worry needlessly quite often.
certainly it can't become tiring to me or anyone else just maintaining a kind of light-hearted, sweet-yet-sneaky kinda mood. (っ˘ڡ˘ς) and i never go all out anime girl, the occasional cute emoticon isn't going to be a problem^^ - i think the main thing will be that over on DeSo, when i write seriously, it's because i'm calling into question things about the platform, and i don't know anything about this platform yet. where is the community for platform gossip? 🤣
you seem to have the kind of humor that i appreciate, so i'm happy to have found your stuff. or maybe you found me. whatever, it worked out.
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omgi probably should sleep, your avatar can't change over time can it? i swear your avatar is looking at me and snarling all of a sudden and i guess before i had never looked straight at it. jesus christ lol. is it fucking animated??There's platform politic shit happening here all the time. Every day there's a new quitter and it's everyone else's fault or something went wrong and now the world is ending. According to some this place was doomed five years ago and they've stuck around this long just to say that, every single frickin day...
If you enjoy that stuff, you'll definitely find some, but there's no actual place for it. I've suggested the platform would benefit from such a place but it's usually when people are huffing and puffing and not in the mood for me and my dumb ideas again.
And nope, that's not animated. It's just possessed. Most of my art is. I'm used to it. We're all friends now.
Was nice meeting you. See you around.
hey yeah i desperately needed sleep and sleep i got lol
i mean a place for gossip about the platform itself, i guess i don't mean gossip so much as stuff like "immutability is cool for financial stuff but for social stuff it sure sucks right? are there other data models that could be used to give all the other benefits of b-chain while allowing for editing of some of the content? and how can it track views if requiring a txn on every view would probably be just too much for the poor b-chain and what pays for it"
and like where people might talk about upcoming projects but without the devs there necessarily.
but yes also i like to know about people causing drama just cause it provides great insight into the truth about a community LOL
it was awesome meeting you, you helped make the platform instantly interesting (-‿◦)
Yeah I was just being sarcastic. But there usually is some kind of local drama. Right now a couple people are losing it over downvotes and it's just kind of escalating rather than folks putting their heads together and trying to solve it.
You'll come across these things the more you browse around. People are always talking everywhere. On Discord as well, plenty of cliques. I don't really get involved behind the scenes though so I'm not sure what the hell they're up to. And since all projects on chain are basically connected to this social network on chain, developers are often publishing updates and information while the people talk in the comments. The trending page is a good place to browse and Chain News if you're on PeakD which can be found if you click 'feeds' button top left. In general though this place is chaotic and scrambled with stuff everywhere and no algorithms telling us what to do and how to think.
We can edit our content. The original stuff still exists on chain of course and can be viewed with the right tools. The edits are written to a new block. Most folks around here wouldn't know how to access the old stuff. PeakD has a view counter. It only counts PeakD views though. Our content can be viewed on several different frontends. Which one are you using?
oh, i know about "editing", there are also apps on the DeSo blockchain which allow edits that are not true edits but merely create a later block that references the original so the original becomes hidden on the front-end.
when i make a typo, i choose to correct it with a comment, because if someone builds an app or in the future all apps are lost and someone is looking at the b-chain in some super cool way like hacking the gibson, i don't want there to be duplicates of any of my posts where slight changes are shown between them. i'd rather just have an add-on that says what from the original needed fixing.
i'm just big on like clean data i guess and to me the false editing is gross for the data.
i use peakd, though i go to ecency (where i signed up) because i guess i collect points there and can use them for stuff. are there any other sites like that on hive that i should have as part of my daily breakfast because they have something like that? i did check out leofinance also, but not much yet, and i was going to go through all of them on hive.io and see what's up with each of them.
There are layer 2 tokens, like LEO. Those are called Tribes. Basically you figure out which tag you need to use. I'll use 'vyb' as example. https://www.vybrainium.com/@nonameslefttouse
I used the tag once so that post shows up there and it looks like I earned 66 VYB. So I dunno what that's worth, maybe six bucks. I used three other ones. Neoxian, Creativecoin, pob. Probably earned some tokens there. So really with that one post I earned six different tokens. I also have some staked so provided a member used a tag that coincides with the tokens I have in my Hive Engine wallet, when I vote I'm also giving them those tokens, and of course I earn some tokens just for voting. They're not really worth much. I have LEO tokens but I'm not really interested in that content most days so I delegated my tokens to a curator bot, it votes, I get paid, for nothing, lol.
A lot of votes around here are actually automated. Those supporting using bots trust the creator won't just post blanks and collect 'free money'.
And I don't know a damn thing about development. But I do know if you're capable, there's a big pile of money set aside to fund projects. People just have to step up to the plate, write a proposal, then stakeholders vote. https://peakd.com/me/proposals
That's how we get shit done. But we don't hand out funds to just anyone. People can remove their votes and cause loss of funding as well. Results, reputation. That stuff matters.
and i thought people might get confused when they tried to use DeSo. this is way more complicated lol.
and it's super tricky, i wonder how exactly people get onboarded here in a way that actually gets them started with that more complex stuff.
i could of course ask someone to tell me the ideal steps to take to get involved with delegating to try to do that as soon as possible. but this is crypto stuff. scams are in every other megabyte and for all i know someone could use your avatar and slightly alter the way your username is and yeah it's not that i have to be careful, i have to take my time.
not that i would expect you or anyone to necessarily even tell me (or be able to tell me) how to immediately hook into some bot that could result in ~free moneys~, but i don't think i could even ask because i don't know that i know enough to know if i were being scammed.
outside of someone telling me to delegate to a bot because "bot's dev team is doing great A+++ job and i very much looking forward to amazing successes all people involved shall share, you should delegate now or might miss out on this super alpha opportunity" - that sounds like it would probably be a legit person and i don't think i would say no to that kind of opportunity, things like that don't come around more than once in a lifetime.
but, i mean, if you have some tips, i'm all ears. LOL
i don't know exactly how to know when i should stop voting and wait for a recharge, i don't know how to know to use the % slider (i don't think my votes count for enough now where that's really a thing to worry about?), and i don't know if i should actively be looking for things to downvote (i don't want to use that really unless it's literally for no-effort copied content that i stumble upon, someone just being an ass just means i will ignore, i have no desire to spread negativity myself).
i do know i need to spend more time looking at other people's stuff, and upvoting that kind of thing moreso than every single comment i get (which i stopped doing for the most part since i figured i should recharge). but i don't know what might offend people either. if i don't upvote a comment, are there people who will then decide "guess i better not comment on her posts again"? :D
right now i'm building a site that will pull in my content from the other b-chain i'm on, and i'll be able to format it and create custom content to go alongside it, essentially as a way to have a sense of ownership over it. at least, i will have the ability to own how it might appear in google searches, since i should be able to rank my profile and content higher than any node since i can add additional content to the pages that will set it apart from the places just copying what went out on the b-chain. and then at least the hope (though, this is also not a major concern of mine) would be for my own site to act as a personal hub for my b-chain existence. i can highlight my content on specific nodes, ignore ones that may in the future not be appealing to me, etc. i could run ads on the pages if i wanted, in order to further monetize the content. i don't intend to, but a big motivating factor for why i decided to do this is because i realized nothing stops any other site from running ads with my content from the b-chain, so getting ahead of the curve on the SEO could be nice.
and now i'll likely see about pulling in my content from here as well.
i'm certainly capable of working on bigger projects. but i want to be able to properly balance all of what i end up doing. if i get big into dev work, i'll be sacrificing time to spend creating content, though of course dev work is also creating, and i love it. but i'll worry about thinking about that kinda stuff once i've been here long enough to actually know my way around things. 😃