It's been a little more than a week for me being on Blurt. I meant to write and post this a few days ago, but some things came up. I haven't been as active in the last few days, so I guess those days shouldn't count anyway.
So far, I have 17 followers, so thank you to everyone following my @holovision Blurt account. I've been doing well with getting upvotes for my posts. Because I am new to the Blurt platform, I don't think my Blurt 3D logo post got as much visibility as it would have if I had had an older account with more followers. I would spend some Blurt to promote my 3D logo post, but I can't see any way to promote Blurt posts like on Hive. Maybe I should have waited a while before jumping into that 3D logo project, but then again, as the saying goes, "Publish or perish."
What I currently like about Blurt is that it's more similar to Hive than Steemit. I started off on Steemit back in May of 2018. After Hive forked from Steemit in 2020, I took my activity over to that platform because of the Justin Sun shenanigans. I was blogging long before 2018, but earning cryptocurrency and having control over my own content really helped motivate me to blog more actively.
I am just now getting active on Blurt. I can see when Blurt forked from Steemit, my content wasn't copied over, but my Steemit tokens and SP at the time were converted to Blurt, so I am not exactly starting off at zero. I have years of my past content on Hive. Some of my posts are better than others, and since none of my past Hive and Steemit content was copied over during the Blurt fork, I have a fresh Blurt account to mirror the better posts to. This gives me a chance to see if I've learned what did and didn't work during my years blogging on Hive and Steemit and apply it to Blurt.
The main difference between Hive and Blurt I need to get used to is virtually every Blurt transaction having a fee. Hive has a few transactions on the first layer that come with a nominal fee. More often, though, on Hive, transactions use Resource Credits which are renewable. I hope as the value of Blurt increases, the fees don't also, or I think that would discourage some new users on the Blurt platform.
On the other hand, I guess spending a fraction of a Blurt token to comment on a post is like sending a card through the mail. Some prefer a handwritten message with a stamp than an email. I have enough staked tokens in my @holovision Hive account so that my RC for a comment to a post is almost immediately regenerated. Making a comment to a Blurt post actually costs me something, making that transaction more significant.
Anyway, those are my current thoughts and opinions about Hive vs. Blurt fees in case anyone cared.
Now that I've acclimated myself to Blurt, I will start occasionally mirroring some of my Hive content here.
Note: This post has been edited. In the original I incorrectly stated Blurt forked from Hive. Blurt forked from Steemit. See reply from @megadrive below.
My advice is to learn why fees are one of the best parts of Blurt, and then completely ignore them. Just make sure you never drain yourself to zero (don't power up every single token).
"Because I am new to the Blurt platform, I don't think my Blurt 3D logo post got as much visibility as it would have if I had had an older account with more followers."
Yeah, your reach is primarily determined by your followers. I recommend linking back to your 3D post in any future content that is related. Also, you can always re-post the 3D logo down the road.
17 subscribers aint bad! I'm one of the top curators here on Blurt, and also one of the top creators... and I have 180 followers after 1.5 years! That includes begging all my followers (been posting as drutter since 2006) on every other platform to join me here on Blurt. You've got 10% of that in your first week, nicely done.
Thanks. I hope I made it clear in my post that I am not complaining about the fees. It's just that over a few years I've gotten accustomed to the mana and RC system so the fees on Blurt take getting used to. The popup window of how much BLURT an operation will cost might be an unintentional reminder for new users. It's not unreasonable fees but I can see how it would discourage some newcomers to cryptocurrency.
I am sure if this site ran on the ethereum or bitcoin blockchain each operation would still cost a fraction of the respective coin. In that view Blurt transactions are extremely reasonable due to Blurt's current low market price compared to ETH and BTC. I get how the Blurt fee discourages the spamming and bloat of the blockchain.
Now that I think of it maybe the Blurt Power APY kind of slightly renews what is lost in the spent side of the equation. The default 75% BP reward for a post gets a little over 2% APY as long as you don't power down. Haven't done the math on a napkin but it seems like the APY for the BP reward pays for the post transaction. Maybe that is the way to explain it to a newbie.
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hi, just wanted to clarify that Blurt forked from steem so that all accounts were intact, all were made whole that lost funds on hive and have pending court case against Steemit, and also accounts that didn't get included in Hive fork for jsun support are included, so Blurt is the most inclusive HF.
Don't worry about fees, Eth has high fees and one of the highest markap chains, our fees are more similar to BNB chain and Polygon, millions of users are used to fees, they provide security, reduce spam and bloat.
Fortunately fees are a witness parameter and can be reduced as price goes up. Also discourages automated spam attacks, where witnesses can quickly raise fees and drain the spammer's account while it is automatically spamming.
I've edited the post to have your correction about the blockchain fork.
I stand corrected about what blockchain Blurt forked from. Thank you for clarifying about the fork and fees.