Sometimes I feel a growing edge of frustration because I really want to be supportive of Hive's communities — I believe in community building, and I believe that niche communities represent the most "accessible" way to present Hive to the world — yet is seems like virtually every promising endeavor that comes across my path invariably turns into a worthless and/or abandoned mess within a relatively short time.
Originally, this account was created to support PALNet (PAL), which is... well, I don't even know what it is, anymore. Then Verify Your Brain (VYB) which seems lost and rudderless... and Proof of Brain (POB) is anything actually going on there?
Meanwhile the Click Track Profit (CTP) community seems dead in the water, as well likely because there really wasn't much there without the energy of @jongolson. Alive (ALIVE) seems dead in the water with @flaxz being AWOL since January. The whole DHEDGE family of ventures seem to have fallen into nowhere, and @taskmanager is nowhere to be found.
Hard to be excited about everything seemingly going down the tubes...
The Nature of the Beast?
What is the lesson, here?
Is the real lesson that the reality that crypto — on whatever scale — is that it's all about short term "moonshots" and making lots of money quickly, rather than about building something that's long term sustainable?
Has the whole Cryptosphere become so attuned to overnight riches and instant Lambos that nothing lasts?
Or am I looking that the wrong thing, here?
Do we just have a plethora of ill-conceived ideas based on little more than wishful thinking and hopium... that had no chance of succeeding, in the first place?
The amount of determination and effort needed to make a success of something is often far greater than what project founders had imagined.
That Sour Taste in my Mouth...
I suppose the logical thing here would simply to not be concerned with our Level 2 communities, and just focus on Hive proper, instead.
Feels like a copout, to me.
Or focus on the "known," like LeoFinance/INLEO... as perhaps the only community with a clue and a chance.
Seems a bit sad that nobody else can get it together, in spite of there being more than a few communities with good fundamentals. The idea is there, but the fundamentals — including viable tokenomics — are missing.
Well, not going to stew in these juices for too long. For now, I'll continue to stack my POB tokens, and post from the Proof of Brain community set up via Ecency. I did like the original site set up via Hive-Engine better — felt more like an actual branded community site — but beggars can't be choosers, right?
Thanks for coming to visit, and do leave a comment if you feel so inclined!
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Posted with proof of brain