I remember your stuff from way back when.
Your story resonates with the way I feel posting here. I have written 583 posts about my investing journey. In the way back when days, each post would get double figures as browsers were interested. These days they grab a few cents even though a lot of my followers are auto-voting. Ah - it is because they have delegated their HP to people who are not interested in this stuff.
I started following one of those tokenomics zones that nobody asked permission to build - Actifit. I have posted every day for over two years and have a gazillion SPORTS tokens with hardly a day missed doing 5000 steps or more. My daily posts are not boring posts about the tedium of walking 5,000 steps a day because I do not find the day’s steps tedious. I take my camera and I photograph flowers. Yup. Every day. And each post is lucky to get to $1.00 - $1.19 yesterday. And a lot of auto-voting too. Ah. They have delegated their HP to someone who is not interested in sport and fitness and flowers.
Why babble on with my story like this?
Because I am using the permissionless nature of Hive to change the way I live my life.
I become a better investor by writing down my trades and explaining my logic. This last week I closed a trade that was written up in my 7th investing post over two years ago - search and find and learn. I actively go out to earn those SPORT tokens every day - it is good for my physical health. I actively take those flower photos - it is good for my mental health.
Yes, I hate the lack of rewards but I am better for the effort.
And the best part is I do get paid for past work when the price of HIVE goes up because someone else is doing something clever on here. I hate gaming but I get rewarded from all the gaming stuff driving HIVE value. I am cool with that.
Not just that. The market became saturated. There was and still is far more of that stuff being created than there are consumers interested in it. Combine that with how that market and those creating that stuff would be far more likely to convert their stake into something that turns a profit (like delegating) if the option is available, rather than using it to support content. So the crypto/investing/finance content is a market that eats itself to death, in a sense.
Actifit posts are notorious for going without consumption. Again that's because it's the same style being delivered in bulk. I know some folks try to mix it up and keep things fresh, but the headline is often enough to be a deterrent. If you put those photos into a post destined for a photo community, you'd almost immediately find a market of consumers and gather support.
Still, like you pointed out, you feel rewarded in other ways. Nothing wrong with that at all. Able to find the silver lining.
I too have plenty of former flops that went up in value. It's all about planting the seeds and allowing them to grow. Far too many show up and start eating those seeds immediately. Then have nothing to show for it while still being incredibly hungry.
Thanks for the reply and he vote.
Have tried in recent weeks to change the Actifit posts - change the headlines and also post directly some of the images o photo communities. Next step - my headlines only and some different tagging
It all feels like Twitter - but I do get something back each time - will keep tweaking