I've built so many great connections early on in the chain's life as I was focused on engaging and curating (with maybe 1000x less vote strength back then but worth something either way), naturally those connections feel stronger due to time and them having remained maintained. We've all been through the same history, markets and world events, it feels like we're a lot more than just a regular community you may find outside of hive for better or worse at times.
I mentioned in a comment a few weeks ago that I miss myself from way back, currently reaching for some new goals with the game I've been working on that I've dreamt of creating for probably decades, but at some point I'd like to go back to my roots, hopefully the same connections will still be here to talk some shit with me and hopefully a lot more people to get to know and share what we have here.
Happy cakeday!
Thank you. I foresee myself forging onwards with HIVE ever more. Its funny, because part of the reason I joined hive was because I was feeling creatively stifled by my corpo job, and felt like writing game reviews again.
I wrote them, and people seemed to like them.
And since that time, Hive has been a massive, healthy creative outlet for me that has helped so much with self expression and the confidence to sometimes pursue the absurd.
Nothing can take its place for me.
Next year the first of us will turn 10. I hope things will be different then; but we have .. like 9 months until then.
If humans can make a baby in that timeframe, then what can we do with HIVE?
Continue building I suppose! We're kind of in our own bubble in terms of the crypto space as well as web2, separate from both in a way. Hopefully we continue to find good people to stay here and value what we have and look into the future while ignoring the small issues. This chain is bigger than most of us here today.
We've been patient. We're told good things come to those who wait. We've waited a long time but we've also built a lot.
At least we have something thay functions and that is stable. Its a lot more than some other projects out there.
Btw, something you mentioned in the post. I've given the idea to unfollow some afk people some thought some time ago but decided not to because some may come back and if they don't, then it's not like they're filling up my feed anyway. I'd recommend following back some you really liked/would wanna see back some day as when/if that happens it's quite a nice feeling to see their post in your feed all of a sudden and be able to curate them with a nice welcome. :)
I thought about this as I was clicking the unfollow button. Given how much I troll through "new" - I am sure that I will find them again should they return.
PS. couldn't find you on discord the other day, any chance you could join ocd or holozing discord so I could dm you?
Yes, ill do that after I sleep, its like 130AM here. :D
Great, throw me a tag or something then!