i'm making it a daily effort to write here at blurt, i've made a promise to myself that i won't power down or draw anything out of here and just keep everything 100% powered up and invest any little bits of funds from my personal projects over here -- more than i EVER did with steem and hive and there is a bunch of reasons for that.
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not only did a learn multiple lessons from steem and then hive but crypto networks in general, in how it brings out the worst in people (myself included) and how to adapt to the reality and point that brings you too. I'm thankful for having my eyes well and truly open to it however and i'm glad that on this fork we do things different.
limitations foster new ways of interacting
i don't know about you but ever since the start of the pandemic i've had to adapt to change massively. forced change, the change you know you'll have to get to when a big event happens in your life -- like starting a relationship with someone or starting a new job for the first time, you have all these potential touch points at play. you adapt, your focus shifts and you recalibrate your life to make space and some times amendments for the way you handled things "before"
the pandemic was a good change for me, my courses really took off and i started making a good income from my multiple revenue streams that i have going for assets, courses, affiliate links and all that other hobby stuff that i had running alongside blogging.
for the first time attention shifted more so to online literally overnight, people are now spending six hours or more at least a day looking at a digital screen, this is what it looks like when everyone is at home (bored) looking for something to do, the promise of the internet, home delivery and adapting to a new virtual reality look like.
not steem, not hive, but familiar legacy
i kinda feel ike blurt is like watching an alternative version of tron legacy, it's still got all the main characters in there, but now you've got new operators, you've got new instruction sets, new department managers, the core components of what you loved about the technology before still exists but you've got a different flavour added to the menu.
In other areas you don't have what you had before, it's like you had a stroke and forget everything you did before and now you are in those two very hard years of major reset but you still have access to your life but you need to claw back to the person you thought you was before, of course that life has gone but you still have the chance again to fill your life with memories and realise some dreams, even if your not sure they were yours to start with.
limitations foster creative flow
i love the fact that i'm 100% powering up, that's my only option, to write and to power up, it changes the dynamic of why i'm doing it. Instead of thinking of using this as a place to make some fast cash and leave i'm forced by the limitations to act accordingly to the different vision the fork operators have set. I can vibe with that, in fact i celebrate it. In fact, it shows character and it's like watching a thought process come to life as someone else shows 'well this is the way i'd like to do it'
no downvotes, so refreshing, the power hungry ego maniacs can no longer vote something down in their mal adjusted mental health ways on people they don't like, i dig that, that allows my creative flow to feel welcomed. I don't feel like i have to play the delicate alpha ego male mid life crisis game at all, i can just write freely. It's like what people who identify differently must feel like to be free and out of the decentralized writing closet.
the future could be mood based sidechains
ok i know this sounds radical but let's just consider this for a moment, what if sentiment analyse get's so good that instead of me worrying 'where' to post that my post is analysed and it's just presented to the right groups, in the right places, to the right tribe, globally.
It could end up on twitter, medium, maybe some other social blockchain blog as a cross post, kinda like what all those tribes try to achieve i guess on steem originally, what communties were hoped to be on hive -- but it's automatic, different safe spaces, crossposted, linked back, a data silo of in-time, relevant mood content based on your current slider settings you set everytime you fire up the "content" source for how you are feeling that day.
simple feels like access, access fosters engagement
when i switched from centralized blogging to decentralized blogging originally i wanted one thing. I did'nt want to manage a blog, hosting or pay out monthly for it and feel guiltly that month when i did'nt write and then had to pay a bill for it -- sure, wordpress is still like 30% market share on blogging as the world wide CMS but that's because people are lazy, apathetic and get set in their ways, they just let it get paid each month because changing or adapting to something new is often time consuming --- i've not seen ANY project really do hand holding and onboarding for those people that don't want to maintain paid hosting.
personally i just want to write, but i don't want to be flagged, marked, spammed, cancelled or any of that otherwise the promise of decentralized blogging has failed at the first gate. I don't want some criminal or terrorist using funds to downvote my personal expression, i want to be able to flex and have some freedom for my characters! :)
clean slates are always good
i love not having any content here, no rep, just me, stacking crypto, building with the community of people that i want to interact with (or not) whenever i choose, whenever i please, to be able to write and be in and out quickly. To be able to invest in this place/space -- to actually PAY for my transactions and be told about it, even when i edit, i don't mind the fees, in fact, i welcome it, everything in life has a cost, why pretend that operations, servers and electrictity to power them are free when they are not, involvement in anything has some kind of cost even if you don't see it.
If it helps limit the spammers and ego maniacs who love the power play of manipulating people and their right to expression then so be it, life has always been paid to play, you only have to see how nature and climate change and planet earth drop that on your ass each day -- you wanna plunder the planets resource, there is a cost to that, that cost might be heat death if we keep going. It all costs.
keep it simple, stupid
Anyway, random musings and thoughts this morning, i just wanted to K.I.S.S it out this morning and take what i was thinking and get it down in text without being concerned if an ego bot was gonna downvote me because they be power tripping! :)
This feels like a new decentralized space that i could use a lot, i'm already loving the tools -- https://blocks.blurtwallet.com -- is awesome and i'm seriously considering running a witness for it because unlike other steem forks they actually made the documentation really easy to understand.
Cheers!
Humble x