Today I Build With Heart and Soul
Today I announce part of what I'm building.
For tech to be great it needs to feel. This is where hive (and most of web3) get's it wrong.
If you look at all that great platforms they make us feel something.
We go on Facebook because of the feeling that it keeps us connected with our friends, we use X because it's like a journey into discovering new trends and interesting people, and we go on YouTube because it weaves art in movie form.
All have depth and feeling to it.
We, at hive, and all of web3 have a chance to build something that combines feeling with decentralization, where everyone gets a piece of the pie -- and curation not only turns exciting but rewarding.
We have lost the soul of what makes art great, and what connects us to it.
This is no-one's fault mind you, it is the way everything is set up. We follow the money, so our emotional investment is in the money.
I've found myself sad when my post only hits 3 bucks; I can catch myself going -- I'm better than this, more people should recognise me! Even if I know it in my heart that if I want more people to come to my blog then I have to make myself known.
So consider me making myself known, truly known today.
What if, we posted on hive, not for the rewards, but for the act of posting something that you wanted to?
It's 4am, I want to go to bed, but I was excited to make this post; not because of the money it could potentially make, but the signal it gives to others.
The ready,
The waiting,
The wanting.
It gives them permission to do the same.
Why care if a post gets $1 or $100? That shouldn't be why we create art; we should do it because we love doing it.
When we focus on hive price, or post rewards then it ties us to a stupidly unimportant part of what makes art great -- the feeling of being heard, being seen.
We tie ourselves to charts and data outwith our control and then our mood swings depending on price and action.
Through the excitement of earning rewards for our work we have become slaves to the dopamine of the crypto world, and it shouldn't be like that.
Oftentimes we forget how valuable art really is.
If you think art isn't an integral chess piece in the crypto world then you'd be gravely mistaken. If you look at every crypto pump that's ever existed it's borne out of art -- through advertisements, marketing, music, song, dance -- you name it; it all motivates people to buy things.
Yet we have lost that in web3 because we seem to think all that matters is the price of a token.
In a way there's still a long way to go until we're like WordPress where people spend hundreds, if not thousands just to blog for free.
And yet we get upset when we make $1?
This changes today.
Not all over hive -- but in my domain.
I will be infusing art and soul into the tech on chain and offchain.
And we will build slowly, for the future.
We start first with a community.
It will be a community of like-minded creators from hive, and some not from hive.
People will be able to comment in it, but the authors will be carefully selected over time.
As we grow, so will the authors and the commenters -- through garden and soul.
We build out into the stars.
This is my promise to you.
Damn, you're making $3 a post, living the dream! I wish I could hit $1! Of course, Hive should be more than just the 'money', but it sure does help when you see your post doing well!
Interactions are also missing; sometimes it feels like Hive is just too big, although very small in real terms. Too much content for people to view, read and interact with. Or possibly too few readers to truly appreciate all the content being produced?
Interesting idea to build things up again from the bottom, I see the bro community is going a lot of rebuilding, looking forward to what comes next for Hive, Bro and Neoxians!
Out of everything -- I miss the readers. A $1 post with 100 comments is way more valuable than a $100 post with 1 comment.
I've always written to be heard, and I guess that's what makes me love what I do!
Yes, lots of building. Lots of rebranding too -- the authorship is only one tiny teeny small fraction of what's to become here sir.
Watch this space :)
Totally agree, I'd much rather connect with people and have them read and value my content with their own opinions rather than seeing mega upvotes with no interactions. Hive is at an interesting crux, I believe. Many have tried the platform without truly falling in love and growing here (or being pushed out). There's only so long this can go on before Hive starts to fall apart. Let's hope the resilience of the users prevails and Hive truly finds its belonging. The potential is insane, if ever fully utilised.
Good luck on the rebrand and reinvigoration! Sloth steps forward are better than stalling or, worse yet, leaving altogether!
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Well lets hope i get a place in that group of authors :)
We'll see. I haven't even began creating the community yet.
The community is for feeling and soul -- my aim will be to make people feel.
I hope, at least :)
I have sir :)
This is easier said than done man. We can nitpick all we want but still everyone on here is expecting the money.
Those who have been earning it for a while expect it as their right, their mark of being someone important on chain.
Sure they put quality for the most part, but they know they'll probably get the same outcome even if it's a dbuzz.
It's going to be hard to tell a regular earner of 10$ per posts to be happy, smile and keep on posting when he's now earning $1
You are not wrong.
Importance and influence is money here and not what we do or say.
In any other social media platform others gather around what makes them feel good, and those platforms are terrible.
Here we gather round the money, and money is soulless.
I will change this though
You watch.
Change is coming.
I like your heart here. I truly do. You have so many beautiful ideas and when it begins to produce fruit, I know it’ll be good.
However, many people get into the web3 space because of the money. Quite alright, we have art and maybe some of us lose the sense of direction for it because we are tied down by responsibilities only money can fix. Still, I get the point. But it’s easier said than done. Many people will always look at the money especially with a depreciating economy. It’s hard to let art flow when you’re burdened by the next meal.
Ah, but here's the Crux my dear Deraaa.
If we created art that has soul that longs to be seen whilst seeking no reward, only to be heard -- then would we be burdened by the next meal? Or would people gather round.
Those are the scales I'm going to tip.
It will start slow at first. People will laugh, maybe. I will be ignored, mostly.
But this is going to snowball.
I like that then! We charge forward.