It is all confusing but my understanding is that BlurtLatum is not coming back and BlurtIntinte is a potential replacement for it.
As you know I'm also on the Bastyon platform where I am more financially invested, and on there, muting is standard practice. But there is a much bigger problem with bots and spammers, and a lot more activity in general. On Bastyon I have 116 accounts blocked!
I'm not opposed to muting, I'm opposed to censorship, and after being essentially banned from both Steemit and Hive I'm watching out for signs of it.
When the covid hoax first was being rolled out I had a lot of arguments with mask wearers - not just the nazi dickheads trying to enforce them but the sheeple "just wearing them" - they didn't grasp that submitting at that point was the first step to becoming the broken and controlled slave society we are in now.
And I view the situation on Blurt as being very similar - at the core is a fake, trumped up little dictator, who wants to control the platform and steal all the money. And I think making any kind of deal with him is a mistake, and that you are being played. That is why I think we may be on opposite sides for a while, but I've made very similar mistakes in the past and learned from them.
I would never block someone over an opinion I don’t think. I have very equally strong minded friends and we regularly disagree. I’m generally attracted to strong minded people so it’s always a melting pot of beliefs lol but we never ever make things personal, we never slag each other off or take it off topic, we keep things private and we all just laugh after and immediately drop debates and get on with being friends. I actually even have family who debate, most my christmas days were spent with my parents and grandparents getting into huge political debates thst could get super heated, I’m very used to different opinions lol but I’ve never ever fallen out with my family for more than a few hours. For me it’s more communication styles that lead to me muting more than opinions. Personally I enjoy a good debate here and there but I also am working on minimising my online time full stop I rly don’t want to get drawn into this huge back and forwards that get nowhere and include hurling abuse or always disagreeing just to disagree. To me it’s just a waste of time and takes my focus off doing things that are making my actual real life better. Of course you can just ignore but sometimes seeing the replies it’s hard to not reply etc and it goes on and On even if you left the conversation. You only have yourself to blame so it’s best to be the one to remove yourself lol. The best is when I see ppl constantly replying then saying ‘ leave me alone’ or ‘just stop replying’ lol. I’m not into taking away others free speech though and stand up for that, but I also don’t agree someone just has to stand there and have abuse hurled at them and not have the option to remove themselves from their field. Sure in an ideal world we all evolve to the place we are not drawn into any discussions when we want to instead focus on work or spend less time online or just totally ignore and not be at all bothered by ppl who don’t leave us alone but till then unless I want to spend all day going back and forwards with pretty pointless discussion I need to mute a handful of them lol I think to date I’ve muted 3 ppl on blurt all for their communication styles none for opinions.
116 accounts blocked lol?! For what isn’t it super alt truth over there? What did you do? lol My problem is I struggle to use it on my phone so have to be sat at the computer and I hvnt been for a bout a week. They rly need to make these apps a bit more high tech.
mainly these two types - spammers like islam123 who posts spam so everyone blocks him, so he sets up islam1234 and starts again - they add up
and then there are people who block everyone they disagree with - so i block them back - one boasted that he had blocked 650 accounts - then he decided i wasn't as annoying as he thought so he unblocked me and started moaning that there was no content!
On a side note what did happen with latam? Did the guy just give up or?
A little also depends on someone’s status too like if Gordon Ramsay comes into my restaurant and criticises my food I’ll listen even if he’s a bit rough In his communication style cause he has something valuable to share and is wanting to help by sharing, it’s worth putting up with a bit of ego to hear it.
Re the deal? I haven’t struck any kind of deal with anyone, I just have access to a delegation account to upvote people, there are no rules with it and if I feel like not doing it anymore I can stop tomorrow. It was actually my comment in a thread where I suggested it because it largely went unused or was just used to upvote the same two people so I am glad to see I can spread it out a bit more. I’ve actually never hated megadrive at all. I did complain about some of his actions very openly and I don’t see that happen anymore. I’ll always stand up for free speech and not stopping people from earning money for an opinion. I can’t soeak about printed stake cause I truly have no idea whatsoever on how you tell these things and without some basic understanding can’t form any opinion on it. Maybe if someone can actually sit down and explain it in a basic 101 way I could try and form some kind of opinion but most of the conversation on it just goes over my head.
Cool - I'm pretty wary after more than six years on these blockchains - but if you are happy with the set up at this point that is great. It's not usually in my nature to be on the fence but in this case I think things have been getting a bit overheated!
I fight for certain things that I really feel are core elements to fight for then not on others. Everyone has to choose their battles or you would be fighting all day lol. I actually don’t mind site rules, as long as they apply to everyone equally and no one is blacklisted from earning, I also don’t mind perosnal muting at the end of the day if someone mutes everyone they end up with no content. Like I said I truly see these chains as a chance for artists to make some more money to supplement their creative pursuits because I know how hard it is to get started and stick to your true authenticity when doing so much ‘free work’ to get started. I built a whole career in photography and know how useful these blogs would have been at that time. For me curating actually allows me to build the things I value about these chains and I know other people value other things. The only things that would stop me curating was being told I couldn’t curate the people I wished to. I don’t mind being told don’t upvote nudity, swearing etc as it’s someone else’s stake and they can have rules absolutely... although we don’t have rules, but I would only really decline this opportunity if I started being unable to upvote people I wished to or I was told to downvote ppl etc other than that even if I don’t think the site is perfect I’ll continue to do what I can to help individuals blogging and the site grow. as you can see I was willing to get into arguments, get my own posts downvoted and leave a site I was earning 80 -150 dollars plus a post on juSt to follow my values. My values might be different to others tho, if ppls are so so different I do think at some point they have to consider just leaving rly or building new front ends I think even megadrive supports new free ends rly that help keep everyone happy.
You were earning 80-150 dollars a post? - Holy cow it's been a long time since I've seen that! (Steemit 2016)
Art + conspiracy - check out this guy's site - awesome
http://mileswmathis.com/index.html
On one of your other replies you mentioned Bastyon and not being into phones...
I hate phones and only use mine to send about three one line texts a week - I never use it for anything else, I keep it in a different room and don't answer any calls.
But Bastyon runs as both an app and a website. And the app works on PC's as well as tablets or phones
I use both - I use the app running 24/7 on a laptop to run a node which pays me about US$30 a day, and swap between website and app on both PC and tablet.
This post is one of the most thought provoking poss I've ever seen on Blurt:
https://blurt.blog/matrix/@opidia/clones-archons-demons-blockchains-and-cryptos-and-matrix
I didn’t realise it had an app how do I download it?
https://bastyon.com/applications
I’ll chedk when home. I wanna do vipassana this year to cleanse myself totally of social media and my phone and reset.
Yeah towards my end on hive I was regularly getting 60/80 dollars sometimes 120 and I got 450 dollRs on a travel one that got obliterated down to 80 by whales. 40 /20 was like my lower end. I still walked away from it and got involved in arguments defending ppl getting downvoted. Never say I’m not someone behind my principles that money was useful too as I lost every single bit of work over covid
Yes - once I started posting about the covid hoax and the death jabs I had all my posts downvoted to zero from that point on - Hive is definitely deep state controlled in my opinion.
But I didn't make much from posting anyway - only about 2-10 dollars a post. I was never in any way cabal approved.
Where I did well was in buying 250k of hive at 9 cents and selling them for 90 cents - after that I was just mocking them really, until I lost interest.
I genuinely couldn’t be in there I acruallt sabotaged it purposely at the end to make sure I could never be tempted to go back on as it was so bad for me psychologically and energetically I just felt the energy was so icky but then kept getting tempted back cause it was such easy money. I just rly had to make it so I couldn’t go back on in the end.
Yeah I acruallt think trading these tokens is smarter than putting all your shit out there for the world to see lol and spending time arguing over nothing rly.
I didn’t read it all but I think something similar to her on that topic and it’s why I now use mute and see the lesson that I don’t need to finish off every conversation to the bitter end lol. It’s a field day for energy vampires and it’s perfectly acceptable to just not bother or want to reply to someone’s comment and just say have a nice day. It can be a real waste of energy. Like right now I’m in between leg squats at the gym that’s a decent use but if it eats into productive time which it has many times for me on conversations that are not mutually enjoyable then it’s rly not even being nice, it’s kind of being fake rly. Social can be amazing I’ve sold work / got jobs: shared my work/ met boyfriends and friends online but when it starts to use you it’s rly bad energy and that’s exactly what I mean when I say that I’m fine with muting. It’s not damaging freedom of speech to protect ones energy and life force and spend time in the ways you want. It’s also ok to ignore comments we shouldn’t feel we have to reply to absolutely ever comment I hVe no issues if someone just stops replying I respect that they have more interesting things to do
I feel right now ppl just want to fight or pick apart everything before it’s happened I heard a post was made about me curating in some kind of circle jerk before I had even been given the log in key 🤣🤣🤣 like wtf is wrong with ppl, I think ppl have gotten over heated and need to just chill off a bit because it’s at the point ppl jump to conclusions with even zero evidence these days and it’s close to getting where you just want to stop even using the platform rly.
Exactly. No deal. Just part of a solution to blurtbooster and other bots not being ideal...ie curating opidias plagerised stuff.
So problems are being solved. But since in took a couple weeks instead of a couple hours....it gave lucy and company lots of time to tell everyone that we are all do nothing, currupt, pieces of shit! Lol now he s buddy buddy with opedia which is even more hilarius.
@frot....it s easy to paint a picture of corruption and mal intent from megadrive and now myself and others who have been pushed up into certain positions...but now on the inside looking out and in good communication with everyone I used to despies....I can with 100% certaintly tell you, things are more complicated than assumed, things take longer to get done too. Part of this is because non of us earn shit at a half penny blurt, and all of us have other priorities outside of blurt.
Ofcourse foolish decision have been made in the past, but again with me, outofthematrix UVmag all in good relations and in good communication with megadrive....he now has some very good people around him, and he can and is leaning on us to help drive this thing in the right direction.
That is a huge huge huge point!!! And it should not be dismissed or spun. Which is the main thing being attacked. Like I m being adopted by darth vadar or something. Lol
So, if you and other s think I personally have changed...I have not. Im just busy keeping an eye on things in the private discord chat. Where decisions are made before going public. You and others have no clue what I have already done to influence things from happening or not happening...and Im sure you would be quite pleased.
I see one of my main roles as making sure no horrible ideas somehow slip to the top. Meanwhile Im avoiding drama and conflict which just puts attention on BS negativity and wastes my time.
Anyway, I always liked you a lot and I would't even be on Blurt if it wasnt for you. So thank you for understanding that I'm just doing all I can to turn lemons into lemonade.
Also, I ll soon be starting a new business account for my real life business here on Blurt. And it will demonstrate why the mute button is extremely important for the individual account owner and I do not at all see it as a blanket censorship on the platform, cause it clearly is not. Im in full favor of my page is my page and I can write whatever, post whatever, and mute whoever....my blog, my user experience. I think its for the best, especially when I start my business account. I just can t have people trashing me and my business on my blog for paying customers to see. Without the mute button for this instance I would be forced to use another platform....like facebook.
As I said to Ultraviolet - if we seem to be on opposite sides at the moment it's nothing personal. But I do think megadrive has a history of being two faced and fake so I really don't trust him.
I'm not into any of this Blurt warzone stuff - i feel like I already live in a society like that and don't need more online. But going back to Steemit I have a history of being censored on blockchains by people like megadrive. And deep state platforms like fakebook are not really an option even if I wanted to hang out there - I actually do have three FB accounts each with over 500 friends, but I can't post any real content without being blocked.
I'm hoping to keep using Blurt on a front end not lorded over by megadrive, as well as Bastyon where I make a good return running a node and have a fairly popular account, but am embroiled in a different set of disagreements with the developers, Gab where I can literally say or post absolutely anything I feel like but there is no interaction at all, and my own WordPress site where I decide everything but again no interaction.
Ofcourse...no war, arguements, BS, attacks, or hurt feelings from your end. That s why you are so damn cool in my book. Interesting what you say about the other platforms. Yes they all suck for the reasons you point out. And thanks again for not falling in line with those who would prefer you speak out about how much I suck....hahaha I ve gotten pretty decent amount of that lately. Lol
Team Frot for the win!
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Twitter. There’s a group on Facebook that helps people get fake vaccination certificates and travel without vaccines it was up throughout the entire pandemic are never ever got brought down you just have to be a bit careful with your words. The main trigger ones I just change to other words. I know it’s a pain but I’m just saying there are ways around it when it’s purely triggered by bots and words.
I doubt we’ll end up on the wrong side of a war due to me because I’m not going to be in any wars I’m not on anybody’s side. If mega drive asked me to do something that I don’t feel comfortable with then I’ll say no I’m not an idiot. If he asked me to do something that I agree with I’ll do it. I have my own personal compass and my own personal belief systems and if you don’t like those that’s fair enough but they aren’t the same as somebody else’s.
Talking about trashing business I had some girl on Facebook who I got into an argument with about something totally different from my main page go to my business page and say she’d ordered something and it was terrible and shite and broken and Facebook wouldn’t even take it down what a fucking joke you should definitely be able to delete peoples comments. In the end I just had to remove my reviews from the page because it did look bad. At least on Etsy and eBay people have to actually buy something and the team are pretty good at removing comments that are not related
For real....I'm looking forward to demonstrating a whole new use for Blurt that is only possible because the mute button exists. If it did not exist, I wouldn't even consider taking the risk. Especially after the BS I experienced this past week.
OPEDIA - This new post is one of the most thought provoking posts I've ever seen on Blurt:
https://blurt.blog/matrix/@opidia/clones-archons-demons-blockchains-and-cryptos-and-matrix
Yes I think a combination of powercuts and flooding in Venezuela made it too hard to continue