Hey, @allover.
Thank you for the kind words.
I'm not one to give into hopelessness, but the way things are right now, at least in the US with the protests and the back and forth on social media, it's gotten to the point where it's impossible to do anything without someone taking offense. Which doesn't really help the true cause, if indeed, it is the true cause.
So, it gets to the point of being pointless, really quick, and yet no one stops. They keep going.
My personal situation has been going on for about 7.5 years. The job has mitigated some of the issues to a degree, but it's also created some others.
May is over and June has already been bearing better fruit, so that's fine. It's more the frustrating feeling that I've had several times throughout my time on STEEM and now HIVE that I'm constantly starting over. Quite a few people manage to get out of that but I haven't figured it out yet, and after nearly 2.5 years, I'm figuring I should.
It is a very troubling time I'll grant you that, and I'm not surprised you're feeling this way; Many are. You are right about the negativity that seems to exude from the protests. They preach love and equality but there is no follow through, just hare and violence.
With the social media thing you mentioned, all I can say is to delete it, the social media, altogether. There is nothing positive to come from it, and if there is the negativity far outweighs it. I'm not one to tell people what to do, but I do not see there being any point to drawing that negativity around oneself.
You know, I saw someone put a meme on social media recently calling people who say all lives matter racist. (She was white). So...My conclusion can only be that some of those BLM supporters don't want equality at all, and are indeed racist in turn. I mean, she wasn't black. So is she saying she does not matter? I can't find any time for someone who holds a sign that says kill cops and loots businesses in the name of peace and equality. All lives matter Glen, including the 10,000 people that die in drunk driving deaths each year in America. Including the 3,500 people who die in road accidents around the world each day. No protests about that though right? People from all backgrounds are hurt, victimised and killed unfairly. They all matter. To say they don't is counterproductive. This situation will broaden the divide.
It's all crazyness in my opinion although people seem more interested in doing something that provides some ability to feel better about oneself no matter how poorly implemented and how lost the real message gets. Fast forward a month and those same people are on some other soap box.
I have to ask, if you find steem and hive so frustrating why do you remain? It's like Facebook for me...I found it negative, so left. Cold turkey. If you're not happy why do you persist? I'm not suggesting to go, just trying to understand as feeling negative is not a nice way to feel and cutting out the source will help improve the situation.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, if so please forgive me. I hope you get to feeling better sometime soon because I've been where you are and it's no way to be. Best of luck.
Hey, @allover.
HIVE hasn't been the source of frustration for me as far as social media goes, or what people are talking about mostly. There are those, I know, who are talking about and taking stands as far as current events go, but I don't see all of that. I don't really go looking for the tweets or the facebook posts—they show up in news articles, though. So, it goes beyond just someone's feed, and as it is, I'm not on Facebook much at all and I only go to Twitter because we're encouraged on HIVE to help get the word out.
I do have sons who have very much been a part of the consuming of social media so I get things through them, too.
So, it finds me.
As far as earnings here on HIVE and before it STEEM, up until last month, I was seeing rises in earnings on posts. Last month felt like the bottom dropped out as far as upvotes went, and I've been wondering if I was the only one that happened to.
Otherwise, even with the inanity that can happen here—with people who can't seem to be happy over anything, satisfied about anything, or take the other extreme when something is actually wrong—I'm still here because I'm trying to build a future and it's been the best way for me so far to do that without investing a bunch of money in systems or entities that I ultimately can't trust. Here, I'm not 100% trusting anyone either, but there's always going to be risk, no matter what. You pick and choose what risks to take.
re: feeling this way
It's not like I (we) haven't seen this all before. It just keeps getting recycled and sometimes repackaged. So, it's not new. I personally think it could be resolved in a relatively short order, and should have been ages ago, but there really isn't a desire on anyone's part to do that, because it's not in anyone's own self-interests. Too many people in power would lose their power, and I'm talking from all sides of the equation. If things get resolved, people don't need others who claim to stand up for them or fight for them when really mostly what they're doing is fortifying their own power and enriching themselves.
So, it's all rather pointless and futile, yet here we are again, wagging fingers at one another and playing the same old tired game of who's to blame. And so many people treat it like it's all so new and revolutionary, or they think that somehow it's going to change the world this time, and somehow for the better.
What it's most likely to do is push things to the other extreme, and so we'll have another subset of people unhappy because now the pendulum has swung the other way.
Very few of us can hold conversations with each other anymore without someone getting upset about something because it doesn't line up with their own ideas, passion or sensibilities. We can't even seem to get black people to agree completely on what's happening or why, or how to resolve it. We just have to have equality, whatever that means, and however that gets achieved.
There are many problems in the world and it suits people's sensibilities to feel like they are doing something however what benefit that have may be questionable. I avoid social media at all costs, I even stop people from talking about what they see there as it is completely irrelevant to me, and often negative and so damaging. It doesn't make for good conversation as most seem only to want to talk about the latest rubbish they saw on Facebook but I'm ok with that. My well-being is more important.
Just on the voting thing. I think there was some change with the auto-voter which enabled people to put not only a daily limit, but a weekly limit in autos. The weekly default was 2 which meant that no matter how many daily maximum votes a person had set on a user, say 1 per day, it would only vote twice per week. If a person hasn't adjusted that then they're auto-voter will be skewed. Less.
Anyway, my hope is that you find what you're looking for to get you feeling better. No one should have to feel poorly with no path forward. As I said, I felt that way previously and it was a difficult time. I wish you happiness.