This is how I feel. Because I am human and not a bot.
I am not going to be long here because the video is long enough.
Thank You for listening.
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I hate posts like this. Here's why you aren't getting enough votes, comments engagement or whatever.
You might not be interesting enough.Your content might be boring. People might not even watch your videos.This ain't Dtube with Steemit stake.You ain't making anything compelling.
All of those can be reasons and one of those things is.
Maybe complaining about stuff is your golden ticket. Maybe that makes you interesting.
Hive is a platform. It isn't something that has feelings or favorites.
The stake holders do though.
So either adjust to that, make yourself more interesting or GTFO.
As far as I can see you don't really have any obvious talent. You don't sing dance paint. Etc.
You're just like the rest of us. Take me for example. I have no online talent either and I do ok. What I do have is some kind of insight into things and a recognizable personality. I also have 100k HP. That helps more then anything.
Adjust.
Did You and Your 100K HP felt attacked by the fact that You are not really helping anyone but Yourself in this platform?
Did You and Your rebloggs of only trending posts because engaging with others with higher rewards will maybe bring some more upvotes felt attacked?
If You personally do not feel that You have any talent is up to You. I clearly can name one of Your talents... but I will keep it to myself.
You are obviously free to Your opinion, as everyone else, and You are free to use your stake the way You want. But so am I entitled to my opinion and say what I think about where my community is heading and what I think we can do to improve.
Your stabs at me really don't affect me whatsoever because I know my worth.
Clearly I am not the only person on the community thinking this way. And for someone that think I have no talent and am boring... You took a long time to watch the video and write that comment.
I'm not taking stabs at you. I'm just telling you what the facts are.
If you ain't getting the attention you think you deserve then your sense of personal worth on this blockchain isn't in line with the stake holder perception or the user perception.
Obviously.
I can't put it more simply then that.
A lot of people think they deserve more, more votes, more comments, just like you do, that's true.
It's not those folks call though. You don't get what you think you deserve.
That's not how Hive works. That's not even how life works.
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And the 100k comment was a suggestion. Go buy delegation. HP is currency of influence on Hive. It helps.
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You arenso clever aren't You? If You think that You can't ignore the point of the conversation and the bigger picture and create Your own narrative of the story by trying to make me feel bad about myself and what I do. Let me tell You that You are losing Your time and barking to the wrong tree.
Clearly You are happy with what You have going for Yourself and satisfied with the way things work. But also as You said You know You have nothing to offer but the money in Your account to buy Your stake and be able to profit out of it.
If that's Your goal in life and You are happy with it I am happy for You. Just know that some of us strive for something bigger.
It is fine for me that You find me unoriginal, not interesting, boring, annoying and whatever else You have called me earlier. That doesn't bother me at all. And with this I am finishing this conversation with You.
Because clearly with this interactions You don't bring nothing new to the conversation and all You can say and show is that You don't like what I do, myself and what I stand for.
Next time You need to get out there and TRY to get other people down so You feel better about Yourself. Think twice and try to be work on Yourself instead.
Haha. At least don't make it passive aggressive. Go all out right away. Lol
Im not trying to make you feel bad about yourself, I'm trying to explain to you that your perception of yourself means absolutely nothing when it comes to acknowledgement of your peers.
Different people react differently to you. The situation matters. The platform matters. The timing matters.
If you want others to react to you in a manner you want, then act in the manner they want you to act.
Maybe you won't have to sell out to readjust. Maybe you will.
If you don't have to then your persona is a interesting one and you win in both regards. If you do, then you're just not interesting.
All of this is fairly simple.
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clearly I am not the type of person that live by what others tell me I should be or should be doing. Otherwise this video would never been uploaded I would never have be having this conversation.
I am clealy not going to readjust to be what others want me to be. I am not a puppet. I am here and I decided to make this my home because I am allowed to be who I am.
I will always act the way I want to act and be who I want to be. If i was going to sellout I would have done that long time ago and I probably would have a bigger stake. But I do what I do because I love it, it makes me happy, keeps me entertained, helped me be a better person and in many circumstances I knownit was helpful or entertaining for others.
If you're not that type of person that will adjust to others expectations why are you complaining?
Then be yourself and do what you want to do and accept that people just don't find that interesting.
Going out and attacking the platform for not finding you interesting is mental.
"if you don't like me you suck".
You can't force anyone to like you or vote for you.
You want everyone around you to change for you.
A very self centered look at the world.
"If you don't like me it's because something is wrong with you. It's not that I just might not be interesting. Oh and BTW I will not change anything about me."
Gl
Theres a reason I told @tibfox this was going to be stupid.
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it's not boring, so what you said is not helping anything.
Was that supposed to be "tough love" for @sergiomendes?
This is priceless, right here-
"You might not be interesting enough.Your content might be boring. People might not even watch your videos.This ain't Dtube with Steemit stake.You ain't making anything compelling.
All of those can be reasons and one of those things is."
You forgot a possibility, that Hive, much like Steemit, is a giant crypto circle jerk where Crypto and all things crypto receive the bulk of the exposure, votes, traction...and things geared towards normal human beings ( you know the ones who exist in the millions on other sites...but are not coming here) get a big shrug.
I written several posts over my time here, that I'm sure you would "hate". My opinion has not changed since this circle jerk moved to Hive, and feel free to tell ME to "make yourself more interesting or GTFO". Me being a internationally award nominated writer and illustrator who has worked on The Tick, Mad Magazine, Image Comics, and for Comedy Central. Heard of any of those things? The rest of the world has. You'd be in a very sour minority to proclaim that I and my content is not interesting enough.
The entire fucking world was on lockdown for several months and yet ...how many new users did this crypto shitshow manage to cull? hmm? maybe 12? who probably left and ain't coming back. The lack of growth here is due to one thing...and it ain't guys not making good enough content, it's that content not getting the spotlight it should, in order to get normal human beings interested.
The frustrations of people putting out legitimately good content often get the response you just gave and the way you just gave it, so...add yourself to the list of things wrong with this place.
Me, myself, personally...I keep posting here because of the INSTANT save feature. If my computer crashes mid-word. When I reboot, everything including the first few letters of that last word are still waiting there for me. That's pretty damn handy. As for the rest...I can dwarf the exposure I get here anyplace else. And I'm not the first, only, or the last creative to figure that out.
And I'll say this again...that Hive you're accumulating, imagine how much more it would be worth if creative content makers felt more appreciated here, posted more ( or didn't just leave) and the millions of normal people on social media started showing up to see it.
Sure,crypto topics are often rewarded on HIVE but not as much as you complainers might think. Take the top 10 trending posts right now.
7/10 ARE NOT related to crypto.
Photography, travel, gaming, etc.
I was actually among the first to say: "Lets give other content a chance" on HIVE after the split with STEEM and stuff has changed greatly.
This is more proof that you guys are just not that interesting or to put it better, youre not as interesting to others as you think you should be.
Make yourself more interesting, accept where you are of GTFO. Its very simple.
Awesome CV, doesnt mean anything by itself.
HIVE isnt just about knowing how to write, theres a strong social aspect to it that is a problem for a lot of people.
It was more then twelve. Id say somewhere between 12 and 100k
Sure you are, thats why you have this rant about not being appreciated. Why you came to defend someone that used to get dtube votes on Steem all the time for making videos no one watched (like dozens did) and now that Dtube is gone, isnt happy about it.
Look, your writing might be good, i havent read it so i dont know, but the fact that youre here complaining about not getting the recognition you think your CV demands shows me that youre doing something wrong. Youre just not interesting to people. If you were youdd be one of those 7 out of 10 on trending right now that arent writing about crypto.
Adjust to the world, dont ask the world to adjust to you.
"Look, your writing might be good, i havent read it so i dont know"
LOL
Yeah...you clearly didn't even read what I wrote here.
This is what's great about the internet, some guy gets shut down and has zero idea who he's talking to. It get explained to him who he's talking to and he blows right past it as if the simple fact of who he's talking to didn't invalidate his point.
Hey, goofball...I create content professionally, my work is distributed on four continents, it's been seen on Comedy Central, and I can guarantee you more people have seen my work that even know WTF Hive is.
I came to this thread because @stevevc tagged me on this and I saw some mop (you) beating up on a guy who had legitimate complaints...and talking down to him. Do you work in the creative industry? No...you do not. You have no idea what you are talking about, you missed his point, you missed all of my points.
Uhm one thing, did you mean to imply Hive got close to 100,000 new users during the lockdown? LOLOLOLOLOL sure...I doubt that, and I doubt they retained ever 10 percent of the actual number it did manage to get. Meanwhile Parler got a million and a half new users in one week. They did that by getting some big name entertainers, illustrators, and celebrities to yak about gong there.
But that's cool. Everything great here, nothing wrong with hive, Its giving the legacy social sites a real run for their money, professional creatives are flocking here in droves because they get some much support, new users don't leave and never come back just as fast as they show up and it's not at all getting passed up by competition.
and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a complainer who's not as interesting as they think...or in my case as interesting as tens of thousands of comic book buyers think, as five different publishers think, three different award committees think, a tv network thinks, or several million viewers think, hahaha...what a goofball.
I'm sure you'll have some impotent last word, but I'm done here. Once you're done typing out whatever oblivious nonsense you have in the holster ask yourself this...remember when Steem was worth over a dollar? anything you've typed out address how to get hive that high and keep it there? Because the original poster at the very least brought up a few things that might affect that change.
anyways...I'll leave you to it.
Thanks for nothing @Stevevc , I hope you're happy. hahaha
Lol. You know it's kind of pathetic flexing with a job you got, when you're incapable of responding to an argument. 😂
And you did it twice already.
Maybe you should go to Comedy central again (the authority on everything that's interesting lol). They obviously like you more.
Also,it's pretty funny seeing someone that proclaims himself a "great writer" to resort to name calling so quickly.
Writers block? Can't think of a clever retort? Lol
The fact of the matter is 7/10 post on trending aren't crypto related and you guys ain't one of them. I think thats the issue you're having.
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Thank You so much for taking the time to come here and check this out. I was reading the whole conversation and the interaction and let me tell You that I guess it is no way to talk about this with him. Because in the end I am guessing he haven't even listen to the video, just read the thumbnail and decided to create is own narrative and put all the creative people in the same box and everyone out of the crypto niche in the same box.
When You come to someone You never interacted before and start offending straight away usually it means that there are a lack of self love. He proved his point when He said he had no talent and his luck is that he have a stake of 100k hp. That says everything about his goal and his intentions here in this blockchain. There will always people milking the system it happens even in mainstream social media platforms but here is more evident because of the lack of other type of popular users. In his mind the reason I am complaining is just because I am making less rewards than before, and that's a lie, because I am actually doing in average the same amount of rewards. But well, what I read in the conversation I know You realised what I am talking about. Sorry that You had to have this exchange of comments with him and once again thank You so much for the time You took and for coming here. :)
Hey Sergio,
thank you for your honesty. I 100% agree with you brother. I know many many many other creators who think the same way and I also have seen a lot of amazing creators left because of missing engagement and support on hive and the previous steem.
You are one of the most enthusiastic and exciting guys here and you deserve more engagement and rewards for sure. Nobody can say that he/she never have seen the face of my favourite spammy hiver.
Big props to you for speaking so openly about that and I hope this video helped you to get more independent for your self-worth brother <3
Most of the people on hive are here only for the money and they do not give a damn shit about other creators nor their content. Many would disagree with me to keep the nice mask on but in the end, this blockchain is going in a really bad direction for years and is all only about money. We all hoped for the big revolution with hive but it is not different than before. Just the "leaders", names and platforms have changed.
Posts related to the platform get pumped while real value posts have a comment desert and <1$ rewards. Rewards are not guaranteed I know but that's not an excuse for the continuing ignorance on this platform. It just makes me sad and I don't see a real-life purpose for people from outside to join hive except for the moneymaking aspect anymore. Good posts are just floating under the surface while promotional stuff is getting pumped as hell. Engagement is sure when you make a contest/giveaway/hive-related post but if you really provide any value/insights in your life, you do it for almost nothing. Not even a bunch of people are commenting because the old engaging people are gone.
I stepped back from being as active as I could on hive because that all makes me sad and I can relate to feeling worthless as well. I work in the background, building supportive initiatives like @diyhub to push quality content creators & to move hive into another direction but "the big ignorance" will never change in my opinion. When it comes to content creation I focus on my personal journey and I guess I will get back to centralized non-crypto platforms to receive real engagement. It is weird and perhaps a bad plan but that's my upcoming few weeks for sure because I create content to communicate and transfer value.
The fact that you have posted that via the (cartel app) 3speak confuses me a bit but that's of course up to you haha
Stay strong and energetic my friend!
Love from Germany,
Norman
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to the video and talk openly about it as well. I know probably some people will listen but won't comment or talk about it because of the risk of negative consequences. But I thought of it when I have decided to talk about this and get this video out there.
We can't keep being fake and pretend we are building a social media blockchain and that we want to mass adopt when there's actually no real support to people that create the content that people actually consume on social media. This facade just have to fall or many changes have to be done by the ones that have the higher HP and are distribution the rewards and choosing what gets trending and who gets trending.
I know everyone is allowed to use their voting power as they please. But at least be realistic about it and don't lie to everyone in the community and out of it.
I'm glad you spoke out, because there is no reason not to discus this. Like I mentioned on Twitter, most users who have been here for awhile know who you are and what you stand for and also respect you for that.
I think the lack of engagement is much more of an issue than the upvotes. And with this being a small community and your interests not always being 'mainstream' you do get a lot of people who follow you, but don't necessarily engage. I do agree with @steevc chicken/egg argument and I can imagine that this is not the place you wanted to be in after 4 years.
but this is a one sided discussion because I have never seen any of the bigger whales responding to me or even talking in any of this issues. If only the small fish will be debating between them it will difficult to get any improvements.
Who wants to be on a social media platform to kill that that only talks about the own platform itself. Imagine on twitter people only tweet about twitter app, on youtube people only upload videos about the algorithm, on facebook people only talk about the new updates. How entertaining and interesting that would be?
The stakes are different. And Hive has many more variables than traditional Social media interaction. For example:
I give your comment a like, but I give our comment a like because I like it, not necessarily because I wanted to earn from it. But I gave it a 1% upvote. Not because I didn't feel you didn't deserve the earnings, but because I want to preserve my RC's because I tend to like comments at 100% and then realize my upvote is really low when I decide to upvote actual posts I want to give a full upvote.
Someone could interpret that as me caring less about them then others, which is not at all the case.
Of course whales give bigger votes to things they care about. And if there is no-one in your niche, it gets hard. Hive is very much a hive mentally at the moment, but it is because we need each other. There is no centralized company that delegates to every project. There is a DAO. I bet a lot of people get upset that their idea isn't being funded but others do. It isn't fair, but the dynamics have also changed. We are no longer on a popularized platform with 1 million users, but in a much smaller eco-system with less than 50k users. So voting distribution is different, communities are formed differently and content discovery is different. You know that I follow you but rarely even see your posts. I often find posts that I love weeks after the payout. I found out through twitter about this video!
Whales might not have anything to gain from responding to this post. I know that if they find your content trash, they'd downvote you and probably let you know in the comments why they don't feel it is of value. In this case both Gandalf and Bernie found your post of value and upvoted.
About the one sided discussion, @lordbutterfly might not be a whale, but he gave a different perspective. I didn't like the 'GTFO' part, but he did make several points that give an impression of how others might feel. I do feel the hard fork did you wrong and kind of split up your support into a group that moved, a group that stayed but also a group that was like... we're done. But you have to reinvent. It's like YouTubers that were on top of mind for years and all of a sudden see their numbers drop. It could be the algorithm, it could be the whales, a loss of fans, saturated content, more competition (in content that needs curation). I could be devil's advocate and provide possible reasons why you'd lose traction, but I don't feel you deserve that. Like I said I respect you and you are indeed one of the people here that has always been authentic en open about everything.
I appreciate and I am thankful fornyour words, your opinions and also your input. But I decided to try to have this conversation not just for myself butnin the bigger picture. Because no matter how interesting i might find blockchain and our community nowadays... I usually don't even come here myself to consume content when I am bored. Because I know it will be all "work and hive" so how others will do? The fork is something else that have a lot to talk about. Me being an APPICS ambassador and still be active everyday in there is also something I am judging for and I know that. Everytime I mention it here You can see the silent around it.
You know I wouldn't give myself this trouble if I didn't wanted to see this coin go grow stronger. To see many dapps come out and be successful. To get out there taking this flag and bring everyone to be part of it. But I can't do it when all they will read and see around is HIVE. I wouldn't have made and tried to start the #hiveisrealmoney hashtag if I didn't believe in what we have here.
Yes I might need to change and become a sellout like many did here in the blockchain and just start uploading content that is completely empty of any content and just repeting over and over again about the updates of the dapps. New features, just rip off their original posts and read the bullet points in a video. And bam. Load of engagement and upvotes. But a miserable life and just contributing to hide artists and other content creators that are actually doing something different here in the blockchain.
And as You said maybe. Maybe some of my content is interesting and You actually would have liked to find it before. But because it is not hive content... it will never get on the hot, trending or even get shared....
I'm sorry if I sound very defensive but I get really heated when discussing about stuff I am passionate about. 😉
Have you considered creating your own Hive community? To attract people who really like your content? Create a fan community....that is what I think would be great for you.
maybe. But that's the whole point. I don't think this is all about me. Lol and I am not that egocentric even if it might look like and apparently a lot of people in here think that. For the ones that have dealt closely with me and had more conversations with me know pretty well that I am actually the opposite.
No, it's good. Like I said, your being honest about it. And it is good to find out where the actual problem lies.
Hive is not Steem. The community structure is different. Appics really is a Steem dapp. Appics has 100k delegation on Steem, practically none on Hive. On Hive, people value Ecency and Dapplr more, even though Appics might be more of the modern Social media feel. But they haven't posted here for over 2 months. Btw.. you know this. Your Dapplr video got a massive payout.
The Appics discussion goes much deeper than that and is a whole other discussion in its own right.
I don't think you have to sell out. Especially not if it makes you miserable.
The biggest problem is you admitting that you don't come here to consume content when you're bored. That:
Whether these 3 points are fair or not, it does play a role. Btw, I also love the fact you are at honest about it, because many others aren't.
The humanization of the platform has always been an issue. But if you consider yourself an influencer on this platform, you should be the one creating those serendipitous moments. You are actually one of the people that can pull it off.
Yeah for sure APPICS it is a whole other conversation. But the most important detail is that for the big HIVE supporters if I am still on APPICS mean I am not a trully HIVE believer and I am straight away put aside. But that is a whole other conversation. Maybe another 20 minutes video coming soon 🤣🤣🤣
Yes I have seen that I got some nice rewards on the dapplr video. And I was honestly expecting. Once again because all the higher powers were ragging and excited about the launch. But the reason I have decided to talk about wasn't the votes. It was because I thought it is an app that can do a lot for what this blockchain promise to offer their users. A social media platform. So i thought it was important to share with people on my circles that have similar interest and in this case I thought telling them about the app could be useful for them like it can be useful for me. To fulfil the goals of having a social media platform that reward everyone for their engagements.
I was also never shy when it comes to admitting the lack of time I spend consuming content in the blockchain. And I am very open about that. Once again due to the fact that it is difficult to find content that is not related with the development of the bkockchain, new dapps, listings on exchanges, technicalities of the platforms, new features on all the interfaces. And I understand how that can be very exciting for people that are more technical and have the knowledge on this area but that's not my case. So for me as an average user and a creative person that can get boring very fast. I don't have the skills or the knowledge to keep it up or being able to understand it all. So opening all this communities and exploring this dapps on the blockchain for years and struggle to find something more relaxing obviously it gets me demotivated to keep trying. Specially when over and over again along the years I have seen so many talented creatives joining the community, getting excited, creating exclusive content for the platform, trying to take our flag and get it out there to just see them disappear for lake of interest and support in what they do. I have seen too many people coming and going. I have seen the community losing a lot of great creative artists. And that's why I also don't look much for that content here because I don't want to find that people, see their excitement to be in a new community that might give them a nice warm welcome for a week or two to give up on them straight away after that and go back to the hive cycle of non ending posts. It is hard to keep losing people like that. Heart breaking.
there are new communities forming now that have nothing to do with blockchain. For example, the Makeup Power community.
that's why @adiwathrive is doing vibes here, to highlight content creators that are doing good with a mindset of mind body and spirit (:
if you don't have the time, were doing columns by Monday to Friday (this week we're off) of bilingual content, in a human way , you could have a look and see if something it's good
altough I would love to support professional and semiprofessional content only, I always put my treshold low to help content creators that I know they could do it better, so, I took the time to nurture bad content creators (not everybody, just the ones I think are dealing with the surface and still are not cracking the egg of their imagination....) of course I have patience to do this and a passion for education.
that's a long term m solution because even if we change the plattform, humans are the same since centuries, only music can stop this, and complain is also noise when you're not giving a solution, can we be agree on that?
of course it works for catharsis, I do this myself, but find a creative approach for your social criticism and find a time to give on feedback to others what you love to see on yours 🙂 cheers
you're part of the trouble when you're not using part of your valuable time to give value to others (I could relate this,)
I feel you. No disagreement there.
Keep doing what you do. In the short time I have followed you, I have been impressed by your honesty and ability to speak your mind. I hope you get plenty of support for your content.
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Thank you so much for that words.
It is probably that honesty that got me in this situation and that got me here...no where.
People are afraid of honesty and they don't like to hear it.
Firstly we have to be realistic about our follower counts. We have thousands, but that equates to maybe dozens of active people these days. The Hive community is only a few thousand in total and so your actual audience may be small. Most of the votes I get are automated, but I would prefer people to at least have a look at what I post.
I appreciate video can take a lot of work and the rewards may not justify that. The whales seem to have their favourite stuff to vote on and some of us cannot expect to get their votes. I do okay, but I don't take it for granted.
I mostly vote manually, but I can only look at so many posts each day.
We have the chicken/egg issue of creators needing an audience and the masses wanting to see the content they like. We need both sides. It needs a few pioneers to take a chance and try to bring their audience from other platforms to Hive. It is just frustrating that this has not happened too much in the last four years.
I have done what I can to bring in people, but I have limited reach. I will help out where I can.
If people don't want to hear what you say then they are ignoring the issues that hold Hive back.
I totally get what You mean and all the points You make. But if the big powers just keep pushing up and motivating the creation of content related with HIVE and crypto, that I am not saying it isn't important, butbif that's all they support we will never have any masses joining in. Let's not go even further... all the people that will come in will just get in that cycle and all we will have is a continuos number of people coming in and leaving when they see there is not much more about the HIVE than the HIVE itself! And only a handful of people will ever be able to grow and actually profit and influence the community and platform.
I've heard others make the same point, e.g. @arseniclullaby. Regular people want to be entertained. I will post on a range of topics that interest me, but that will sometimes be about Hive too and those posts do tend to get the most engagement as that's what we all have in common.
With my own votes I tend to vote on posts that need the rewards. Anything with $20 doesn't need my support. I am supporting a load of small accounts via @tenkminnows, but that is a drop in the ocean.
I really don't have the answers to the problems, even after 4 years, but the community is still fun for me. I'm not doing it purely for the money.
you do a great job support other content creators that are not exclusively doing hive content. But as i said I feel that shift and change need to come from the top people. I clearly don't do it for money. Otherwise i would have left long long ago. The frustration comes from the fact that I have been waiting for some shift some changes and that doesn't happen. The cycle keeps repeating. And then this higher powers keep promoting the hive blockchain as a space for content creators, a place where blockchain is being used to create web 3.0 and the new era of social media platform. And i start getting to a point whereb I really dont see that.
I think we should be calling them out on this. If they decide to downvote us then so be it.
I think so as well. But people really need this extra to help them with their lifes. And then we get in an environment where the censorship is not direct like in centralised social media but the censorship is inspired by the fear of the whales :/
Well some people need the money. I know some really struggle to afford even a basic computer. Some of the whales enjoy the control they have over people, but others are more reasonable. I have met a few of them and they do care. They have to be careful how they use their votes.
maybe this will help: on Hive, we can all be owners of this platform. I think once we shift our thinking to "this is my platform, where i am a part owner" things can change. I am glad however that you created this honest video where you delve into the problems. I enjoy this honest feedback, and encourage you to keep exploring these issues. Please though, don't quit creating content.
I guess I know have to think on ways to explore this more and maybe start something that will help more people with similar problems and ideals to try and make a difference for everyone else. Maybe find ways to take over the trending pages everywhere with trash posts ehehe just to annoy everyone lol
@sergiomendes, I watched the whole video, and while I've read SOME of the comments and conversations, I haven't read them all. So I'll probably end up saying what has already been said. Forgive me, please.
I think a lot of the issues around engagement stems from the simple fact that a lot of us left for one reason or another. So there's not that many of us around. The ones that are still here oftentimes feel just as jilted as you do. As such they end up giving up on it. I think that is a mistake.
Culture is a consensus on beliefs and practices of a community. What that means is that it is the sum of everything all together. You and I, no matter how small our accounts may be, play a part in that. When interacting with cultures, people have the choice to either assimilate or influence the culture...or both. I have made the mistake, in the past, of not exercising my full ability to influence the culture. I don't want to make that same mistake with hive. I would urge you use your abilities to influence the culture here to be more like something of which you'd be proud.
While our ability to influence whales might be limited, we have a lot influence over others. We just have to keep using that ability. We have to be the change we want to see...even when it isn't working. Because people see it, and they take note. Eventually, they also take action. It might mean that they comment only twice instead of never, but over time those effects multiply and before you know it, you've changed the culture.
So don't give up. This post has already had an effect on me and I'm sure others as well. I will certainly make an effort to be the change I want to see. I look forward to interacting with you in the future.
thank you so much for taking the time to listen and leave your input. You are totally right. I have always tried to do that for as long as I have been here. I am also glad to hear and see that actually quiet a lot of people came to talk about this and share their views and opinions. I honestly didn't thought as many people would agree with me or even if they would they wouldn't be speaking out because of the fear of ehat could happen to the possible support they might be getting from bigger stake holders. As You said it is true even with a small stake our opinions as views are obviously important for the community and we are the ones in charge of making changes. I don't have a large voice ans as some people referred I guess I might also come accross as "intimidating" since I have been here for a while and I have content all over the place and people might think i am not approachable, and that idea for me is just so bizarre. Lol. But I am glad to see others were actually able to see mybpoint with this. Once again thank you so much. And well maybe I need to be even more active when it comes to try and get some changes happening in this point.
You have to promote what you believe in. Otherwise, it looks fake. I feel the same way. I am not going to jump on every bandwagon just to jump.
Honest, I think people are intimidated by you. As in you are bigger than life and they are small so you don't need them....does that make sense? I don't mean this in a bad way but in a "He is too big to talk to me" way.
I'm only at 5 minutes loll
14:30 I do not think people realize just how much work goes into making a video. Editing can take me 4 hours sometimes. The making of the video is the easy part. Then if you write a post to go with it that can take me another 2 to 3 hours depending.
and yes, posting and not getting any comments hurt. Doesn't matter if you know someone watched it still hurts when no one comments.
I have not read your post from yesterday but finding your video was hard for me to do. One of the reasons I do not care for communities. If people do not reblog their posts from the community I will never see it. I do not have time to go into each community and search for who I follow posts. I do not think many realize they have to reblog it in order to be seen on Hive by more than a community.
HUGS
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to it and comment. I feel that by my rewards show the exactly opposite and also I feel that I am always nice and approachable with everyone. Do I come out as arrogant and unapproachable? Well. I guess I am just too emotial and sad seeing that I give so much of myself to the community and what I get in return is very little actually 😪 but agree with You. I guess because my content it is more relaxed and not as "professional" as other people, because that is my branding and what I do... they think there is no work or effort behind it so they might choose to not support me because they think what I do bring no value to the community :(
You ARE but people do not know that...... It's like would you go up and talk to "London Movie Star" if you saw them eating? So not meant mean by anyone I do not think..... Just movie Star and people do not want to bother you...
and what looks like less work just means you did a great job..
I guess I understand what You mean, I just never saw myself at that level I have always seen myself as someone that doesn't really have a lot of influence in here. And no matter how high is my following number or my rewards I just see myself at the same level at everyone else. I am just human and I am nothing more than everyone else. So I guess for smaller users I am too big to be reached and approached and for the big ones that have the power my content is not good enough to be seen and supported! I am stuck in the limbo.
That is how I see it. Yes.
Now how to get out of Limbo is the question.
After this video I feel that I myself have no way out. Lol but hopefully it will generate some conversation and will make it better for future content creators like us. :) but this might have been my last breath. 🤣🤣🤣
No it is not.
But now you know you are OG.
So now comes the questions.
How do YT OG's still keep getting upvotes?
What are you willing to change?
See how many people like this format of video. You talking real. I loved it. I saw the real you when watching it and you made me want to respond and not just upvote and move on.
There are so many relevant things to talk about ...... You are a very good 'no script speaker'
what can you do with that?
A lot of the people we both knew are no longer here or anywhere. This is not the same but it hasn't been the same for a long, long time. Even before the split.
I make long videos. It is what I like to do but people do not have 20 minutes to sit and watch.... I know that but it IS what I loved to do.
So do not think you are alone in wondering where you fit in..... This has been going through my head for a while now.
You know you are not alone.
It is up to You to decide how you will carry on and in what manner.
But don't ask me more than that because that is where I am stuck too LOLL
As I told you before on twitter... "I totally get your point" and I share much of your expression. Always remember that there must also be a balance between your point of view and that of others, for example: without a doubt, organic interaction is necessary, seeing you involved with the communities that support you, is as necessary as creating content. A big hug, my regards and respect. Adiwa!
Thank you so much for participating in this conversation. I guess from now on I will have to be even more verbal and try to do even more if I want to see some changes happening 😄
A few days ago I made a post talking about some little things you mention here, I hope you take the time to read it because maybe you can understand my point of view. It's always going to be more important what you give than what you get, so you don't have to worry about bad comments either, they are part of the balance. Leave this topic behind and now show what you can do and see how your surroundings will change little by little.
Repeat after me - UPVOTES DO NOT REFLECT QUALITY ON HIVE.
It's an investment platform, that's all.
If that was the way it is advertised and the way all the higher powers want everyone else to see it, I wouldn't be having this feelings. But they keep pushing social network dapps, and trying to pretend we are working on mass adoption, and that it is a place for decentralised platforms to combat censorship. So what they do and talk and preach out there is all a facade? And we are all fools for still believe that really we can build a social media related blockchain ?
You already know the answer, Sergio. Now invest more time in things that make you happy and cut out more things that don't.
Bloody hell bruv. You're like a guru now. Where's your white beard?
I'm the new Gandalftorrent. I predicted ChainLink bull run via a triangle ANALysis
Eww!!!
I don't know if I am ready to accept the answer and also don't know if I am ready to throw the towel! 🥺
I like your videos and your personality, you seem to be someone super nice. How hive voting system works is not ideal, I guess we all somewhat see and agree with it, there are discussions about it, but seem to difficult to change. Hope one day it'll change? Before it changes, have you got attention from @rocky1 @appreciator and whoever that likes to drop big votes? Hope it can help. I see you put a lot of effort on your videos indeed.
Thank you so much for listening and leaving a comment. This is not just about getting the attention of someone big and relay on them forever. I do get a "higher" upvote here and there and I am obviously happy for that. But as I said the majority of the times that happen is when I am participating in some action call to action to promote hive, or talk about a new dapp on hive, or some updates and that's about it.
But this is bigger than me. I just want to see this platforms really become social media platforms so everyone have more opportunities.
I understand what you mean, imo anyone here should post whatever interests themselves, only when it’s fun to post on hive, it can be more attractive for newer users.
Yeah but the bigger powers really are notninterested in fun, interesting, different, or anything else... unless it's hive... that is not very appealing for the masses
I watched the whole video bro.
Thank you for speaking your mind.
Money drives most people and that’s a fact.
I know you did lot of work for Dtube.
Just imagine Hive is hitting $5 and your current rewards will 20X and that’s why we need more people to join Hive
Stay true to your Creativity and create opportunity for yourself. Rewards might not be linear. That means you only need one person and just one person to see your talent and contribution and everything will change.
thank You for watching. You know I always speak my mind. This is not all about the value and not only because of me. This is something that I feel it affect many creators and also that influence what is uploaded in here.
And with the powers that are ruling how can we even think we will have mass adoption. It is impossible to make the masses start loving and gaining interest about blockchain and crypto, but if we have a platform that is prepared to receive them and it is full of fail videos and stupid home videos about your cats. Everyone will want to come in and make some extra money while they are laughing and killing time on the internet!
Who wants to kill time reading about something they don't even know it exists?
One of the reason I delegated all my SP to individual Dtube Community members is to empower people to support each other rather than relying on Dtube upvote.
I’m doing the same again with my Hive Power.
I always empowered people through Dtube and STEEM.
Most of them are not even grateful. I don’t see them in my comment section and I don’t see them on Twitter.
It’s only natural human behaviour. You will find everywhere you go in life. It’s not just related to Hive.
My STEEM failures hit really really bad but I complained less and took more responsibilities in the end I ran out of energy.
I’m ready for Hive and I wanted to put things right.
All I can say is Do you and Be you
You know very well that I can't do it any other way and that's why this video is here. Because this is me. I just think my frustration have grown to a point that I couldn't keep it in anymore.
Because for such a group of people to advertise, create and develop so many social media platforms for users to upload whatever they feel like but then only support and help users grow that are exclusive crypto/hive content creators is not really a social media for content creators. It is a small forum for a couple of people interested in decentralization and ways to earn money online talking about technology and development.
share this to your blog too so it is easier to find please
I thought I have done it. But now it is done.
I appreciate your unique perspective and your value. I want you to know that.
Thank You so much. That really means a lot. Hopefully we will be able to get all together to make a difference to many creators out there. :)
I'm a day late to this, but I did watch the whole thing.
For me, I went for a while without much support but I've been lucky in the past few weeks to be getting regular bot support and some occasional manual ones too. I know they may not last, but I don't let that bother me much. I've shifted the way I think about rewards a while ago to a more realistic mindset.
My stake is way too low to meaningfully support anybody's posts these days, so what I use it for is on comments on my content. I don't get an curation rewards at all, or very little, because of this, but I don't mind. It keeps the regular commenters happy and I show my appreciation to them that way.
I hope things change. You're one of the most dedicated people on this platform and you've been here from the start.
Peace bro.
better late than never eheheh thank you so much for listening to the whole thing and taking the time to comment. :) yeah you are another awesome content creator that doesn't get enough attention in here. With entertaining and educational stuff to share. It is about people like You that I am talking, people like You that we need on the trending page. :)
I know right. I am so dedicated. I am just the best eheheh. Midnight came out of a 7 hours nonstop shift at the restaurant and here I am replying to my "fans" 🤣🤣🤣 thank You so so much for the compliment. I just struggle to accept compliments. I always try to use humour to defuse it. 🙈
And also a tip of 50 $hive 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 thank you so much for that I was like... what is this?
Yesterday tibfox also tipped me almost 40! You guys are just other level ❤❤❤
We are still young here, the community members are not heterogenous enough to cater for all type of content creators.
You are still lucky, since we at the bottom of the Hive ecosystem, are too not getting attention.
It is not your audience that should engage you, since it doesnt work yet in Hive, you should engage your audience.
By “softly ranting” like these who can illicit engagement, atleast from me.
You are still effective.