What would you do differently ?
Welcome to a new Liotes Mission. Obviously the what if's don't bring that much in life but today, I would like to ask you such a question all the same.
If you had to start from scratch on Hive again, what would you do differently today than when you started?
Please leave your answer as a comment below this post.
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I would have joined Liotes on day 1. So that I could be in the top 15 by now 😀🔝
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Hehe, you are not far from there I believe ;-)
If I had known what I know today, I wouldn't have invested a single dollar.
I see some disappointment here...
I most certainly wouldn't have invested in DHEDGE, but it's a live and learn process. Always watch investments carefully!
Yeah, my mistake, too :)
It's difficult to know which projects will evolve positively and which ones not...
Hive has been a great learning experience and meeting some cool people, so I wouldn't change anything.
Where are you, my friend? How's your health?
All good thanks man. Things going much better. How are you?
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That's good to hear :-)
It took me a long time to start posting consistently so I would focus on that sooner. Also enter the communities sooner to get that initial support.
These are two important points that make life on hive much more interesting.
Community is key to grow in hive :)
I might have played some of the games here, or posted a bit more. :)
But you wouldn't do things too differently it seems.
I would have done things differently. This is a public space so I will not say things, except to say I would not have invested in rug pulls or dead tribes here on Hive.
Unfortunately, there were quite a lot of projects on hive engine that didn't survive the long run. A lot of money was destroyed because of it.
Yeah it happens in all chains.
Hindsight is 20/20 so it seems like a moot point. But saying that, I'd likely not have put in fiat (which was fortunately not a lot at all) at a time where HIVE and Splinterlands were at an all time high. Both of which have been trending downwards with no signs of recovery. And also, I should have sold my Splinterland assets when the going was good too.
It's difficult to time the market and we tend to invest in things when the dynamic seems very positive. It's a normal and human behavior I believe.
When I meet a Hive newbie I gave some advices that I didn't have when I joined.
First look for projects like apis.hive ( well, it didn't existed in my time but if someone joins now is a good idea)
Second do the PUM with 1 hive per day, you get some delegation.
Third, go directly to communities that fit me and usually help a lot, with curation or even with contests (or contests like known as missions in liotes).
It's true that such tips can help us tremendously in the first stages. I think you gave good advice!
Hm, you are asking me to rewrite last nine years. !LOLZ
I certainly wouldn’t be more productive or more beletristically inclined.
Probably I would invest more in $HBD from the start on.
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It seems like 9 years ago there weren't any interests on HBD. I started once the interests increased :-)
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I would try to limit the number of projects that I tried to support. At first, I jumped into everything and spread myself way to thin that what little I did have to offer did not add much value. However being involved in all those projects, I did learn that a lot of projects will both fail and succeed and there is no way to predict which projects will fall into which group until they actually do...
It's difficult not to jump in all the shiny things. It's a learning process. With time, I started not to into anything anymore which probably isn't the best approach either lol.
hmmm I almost miss this mission again, Wednesday is always a bad day lol
Maybe the question is a bit off for me, because what a newbie should do today, or 2 years ago, or maybe 4 years ago, definitely are different. so there is no need for "start from scratch" analogy anymore.
A noobie for today era? Simple, stick with the big fishes, lick big curators ass who I mean not for curators with big HP, but more on curators who has low HP but given power to upvote using big HP account.
That's their holy grail for getting OCD CURANGEL and APPRECIATOR upvote, they will be labeled as high quality onboarded and for whatever shitposts they write will be labeled as high effort and good quality.
harsh and salty, but that's solid fact
I feel some disillusionment here 😂
I would have grown faster if I had avoided the mistakes I made at the beginning. However, I would not change anything significant. Regular posts, communication with others, and that's it.
It's nice to see that you are quite content with your path :-)
Yuhh I think it's a little bit philosophical question. But if to talk about me first of I think that everybody has his own way.
And of course I have some points which I'd like to change in my long Hive trip.
First of them not to make long brake in publishing my posts as it was.
Also at the beginning it didn't worth to publish just couple words posts as I did on my first year on Steemit at that time.
Another one point to which was worth to pay attention is to finish my travel series like it happened with my series posts about my travel to Germany.
Of course there are another several points which worth to change but they more personal for me.
The idea of this post was to see what people have learned on their journey on hive. I just formulated it a bit differently ;-)
Ohh ok then I can say that I learned a lot even how to communicate with people in some cases. Of course it can be considered as a basic skill but can happen different situations.
Also I learned how to edit in Markdown when it was old editor on Steemit)) sometimes I can use it when editing readme on GitHub or gitab in daily life))
I think it would start with interacting with people. I remember starting off by making posts like others, but not many people will look at your post. You need to get to know people, so it would be to find an area you are interested in and engage there.
That's a very good point!
I don't know. When I started, I was more excited about Hive, but it only took a little while. I'm more focused on my studies.
It's normal that our priorities shift in our lives...
Well, we have a lot more options today than when I started back in 2020... Unlike back then, I would start by using a Bitcoin-backed loan to frontload my account and split the loot between HP, HBD, and selected 2nd tier tokens such as LEN and LENM.
I'd blog at about the same rate as I do now, or a bit more often if time and inspiration permit.
I'd run my HBD Freedom Ladder from Day 1.
I'd create a "flywheel" to support it through delegations and tribaldex pools.
In short, I'd do from Day 1 more or less what I'm doing now, which took a few years for me to learn to do and to be able to do as there was no Tribaldex and no Liotes when I started back in 2020!
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!BBH
When reading this I believe that you are quite happy with where you stand now :-)
well, i started with CTP. Which given an option i would do it again with Jon and blain.
Initial hive journey was rough. U make mistakes and learn.
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!ALIVE
It was an interesting time with CTP. It was a good place to get started on hive.
It would definitely be interacting more with people and engaging with them. It took me a long time to start commenting and participating more on Hive, like talking to people, asking how they're doing, socializing more. In the beginning I was quite stuck on that, so if I could start from scratch, I think I would do that.
Hmm.. Maybe I will steer clear from the Layer 2 tokens, or at least be more cautious about some of the projects.
I'd start learning how things work right after creating my account, and not wait for 6 months😅
But maybe I wasn't really ready then.
Well better after 6 months than never 😂
It took me a long time to start posting on Hive. I started playing Splinterlands, and only after a year did I start posting effectively. Even then, it was only one or two posts a week. These days, I'm more consistent with my posting! That's what I would change if I started from scratch!
Your question implies that I retain my experience from nowadays, otherwise, I'd probably repeat a lot of the past mistakes.
Recently I discovered some BTC transactions I made on Coinbase in 2015... Didn't even remember I had BTC back then. Of course, I sold, haven't bought it.
What I would change would be to get into crypto with an open mind and research it deeper much sooner. That implies being on the ancestor of Hive earlier too. Seems I dabbled with crypto early enough, but didn't take it seriously for a good while.
I know many other people who have done exactly the same 🤣
Being in the game early really helps I believe.