Some of those who have no bank and not welcome on Hive found themselves on Blurt. Like myself... because it was said to be a free speech haven... now my savings have been reduced from six figures to under $2000. It is heartbreaking to put 10 years of FULL TIME work (yes, 40+ hours a week) into this effort, only to have someone come along and drop a couple grand here, and have more BLURT than I do. This is not only my life savings, but also the result of my life's work, putting my best years into it. My activism was seen and appreciated by tens of thousands, and saved lives, now reduced to 15 or 20 views on some unknown blog. This is bad for me, and bad for the world. I was a potent force for good. Now I'm impotent and deactivated. You're right, it's an investor's market, they can turn me into a minnow here with just one small purchase from fiat. "Just ride out the bear market" is usually okay advice, but only if there is going to be a recovery afterward, and I'm not so certain about that anymore. It's true that it is too late to cash out and buy back in at a cheaper price. I don't even have enough to make that worthwhile anymore. I basically have some crumbs in a penny stock that seems to be going to zero. All I can do is hope for a recovery the likes we have never before seen in any crypto - a 500x move. I need Musk to buy Blurt for his next project.
Barring that, I think we need to please and support content-creators as well as investors. Without content, investors have nothing to upvote, and no way to profit. This is a partnership and each person involved must play their part(s) properly. Good content is viewed and shared, benefiting the content-creator and the platform. Good content is also curated, profiting both the creator and the curator. The curator invests in BLURT to increase his profits. That pushes the price up. A higher BLURT price draws in content-creators. And so on! This increase in price, and improvement in content, leads to higher morale, and more activity... therefore more good content and more curation. Each part of that "machine" needs to be strong otherwise we have a bottleneck in our strategy here. Trying to support just one section of the machine probably won't be effective.