I just finished having a look at my results in LEO and POB; looking to see if it was curated/consumed. This is actually my first LEO post since Hive became a thing. Only recently started using POB. Not sure if placing this in those two communities made much of a difference when it comes to views. I checked POB trending and oh boy. Still on a honeymoon with itself. Just noticed Palnet isn't really even paying people anymore; not sure what happened there. Not sure if throwing it in Neoxian's City helps with visibility any more. LEO isn't as full of itself as it used to be but I think the cheerleading hops from one community to the next when it's new. Then they fizzle out, or something new comes along. Still not much incentive to purchase those tokens in order to achieve the goal of supporting content since there's not much actual content to choose from unless you dig. Hive still offers the flexibility and can dig in one place. Can support a little bit of everything and not have to feel tied down.
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Yeah. Palnet did a thing where they got pissed off paying tokens to authors and I think only pay out a pittance to authors now with the lions share going to those who stake the coin. Bit like some people have wanted Hive to do.
Leo is a bit better but it led me to the realisation that with our small audience (ourselves) I think there is only room for one super successful tribe at a time because at the sniff of a new one everyone runs over to that one to start shilling the Tribe X is the best thing ever and I can see mass adoption/price moon incoming LOL!
None of them help with visibility. They are all just a money grab built on the chain
Oh I see. So then nobody would even be browsing and curating/consuming on Palnet. No point in using that tag. And plus if they're not going to pay a creator for being the reason people look at the site, they can shove it. If Hive did that well, don't matter what shit coin you're on, you're taking a pay cut. So you'd end up with shit Blurt style content. I took a spin there and that was like digging through the bargain bin at a thrift shop.
LEO is kind of funny to me. They pay consumer rewards, of course. But you can just delegate to a bot, don't even have to read that garbage, and still reap the rewards of being a customer. They straight up pay you to not go to their store and consume, so that's helpful LOL. But all these little groups do that. Losing the consumer base is what nearly killed Steem when everyone was selling votes and delegating to stake pools. Even now on Hive, folks are wondering where consumers are, as they create content, while their stake is delegated away, along with their consumer base. It's cute because they think they earn more when they do that because someone said the word 'profit' or 'APR' or whatever. But when you tie it all together, it's just people shooting themselves in the foot, and not being able to figure out where the bullets are coming from.
The old APR hunt. Unfortunately, a lot of creative folk did leave after the whole STEEM debacle or the ones who stayed got disillusioned by the badness on the platform particularly in its infancy. We saw it with the flagging tranny and there have been others too flagging arty folk. Even the influencers like Cryptofinally, whom I thought was a tool but you cannot gang up on a young woman and repeatedly call her a cunt on a platform touted as social media and expect the public to come flocking in in their droves.
The crypto crowd who were always strong became the ascendant and when LEO came along it just encouraged them like crazy. APR this and APR that.
I look back at some of my old posts sometimes and the interaction was off the scale. Not just for me but on all of the creative posts of others. There was the same old trite crypto shit true but at least people were aware it was shit and moaned about it being on trending. In fact there were multiple discussions about getting those kind of trash posts off there. But that was then!
Yup. I was one of the artists that dude tried to push away. I wasn't too interested in that behavior and made my position clear. Now we have NFT platforms and hardly any artists. Yet the mainstream loves NFT, while this crypto crowd here was busy calling it a scam. Any time arts and entertainment combines with crypto and the public finds out, they love it. Just look at how many showed up with no interest in crypto but plenty interest in creating content and generating an audience, while the some of crypto crowd here says there's no value in content. ...as some work on developing content platforms. "We want SMTs!" and don't even realize the 'M' stands for fucking media.
I'm glad I wasn't around when that chick got slammed. I know all about it though. She wasn't the only one either. That was sickening for sure. Social media mobs get ugly. People get kicked when they're already down.
And yeah man. I remember when the goal was to create an entertaining atmosphere. Still bugs me when folks show up, create some cool stuff, but then just fade away into the crypto cult, never to entertain again. So many just love to follow that money.
People love creativity, art, humour, compelling stories. Thats what people look at on the net. They don't run to random sites to pick up half assed commentary on crypto. Its so obvious it hurts. Something viral isn't going to be someone bleating about X coin going parabolic... maybe
And that cracks me up :OD
Although, it shows the mind boggling herd mentality of them all that they are still hankering after an airy fairy idea that Ned had all those years ago. It is quite ridiculous.
Crazy thing is, I see no problem getting this thing on track and succeeding. These issues are minor and just kind of silly. Nothing a bit of duck tape can't fix. I think the madness comes and goes in waves. Get some solid interest from the normal human crowd on the internet and this project no longer has to deal with this boom and bust cycle crypto can't seem to detach itself from. And there are still quite a few around who don't have their heads buried deep inside the ass of the crypto echo chamber, so that's good.
There are definite upsides. Just got to keep the eye on them!!