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Follow Friday: Feeling festive

Steve Clark@steevc (81)2h

The News

It has been a bit of a wild time with $HIVE, but it is good to see it up a bit. There has been some crazy trending volume recently that seems to have been coming from Korea yet again. They seem to trade this and the 'legacy coin' together and the lesser one is ahead for now. We shall see if that lasts.

Prices from @coingecko via my script

I was prompted by some comments by @jacobtothe to compose some haikus on crypto themes and have been Snapping those with #cryptohaiku. It is a fun little exercise.

@hivefest is kicking off in Barcelona. I have not seen many posts about it so far, but I heard from @jza who posted a photo where I recognised a few faces. I was not planning to go this time and I have had a bad cold this week anyway, so I would not want to spread that.

Friday Follows

  • @lordbutterfly has a new Hive front end with some different tokenomics and discovery methods.
  • I just found @horrorweapon who are an industrial band from Canada. They are posting about some sample packs they have made from old music gear. Some of those are free.
  • The new single from @ugochill is out. One for those who like rocking guitars.
  • I think I already mentioned it, but @soundlegion is putting out some great songs that came from a collaboration with a guitarist.

The Dog House

I have seen some 'discussion' in the Hive Discord and it gets quite heated there. It is fine to disagree with what someone else is building, but we need options on Hive and there is no single 'correct' vision of what it should be.

There will also be some 'blamestorming' about why Hive is not doing great. It may be the DHF or lack of marketing or just a reduction in interest in crypto as AI is the Hot New Thing. We still need alternative platforms that are not controlled by corporations with options for all sorts of people.

Not everyone is going to write great articles or create amazing videos. What most of us can do is discuss our favourite topics. I thought this platform was intended to be some sort of better reddit (hence the original name). If you make good use of communities dedicated to your interests then you should be able to post insights or questions and get some good discussion going. That has value and it is what goes on with a lot of social media. Not everyone can be an 'influencer', but we can interact as humans without any real need for AI.

We have the various short-form options, but I still think those need some improvements to be more useful. A feed full of game updates may not be that interesting to most people, but it could be a news source and for entertainment. That is what Twitter so compulsive, but then it got corrupted and many of us left.

Hive is a technology, but it should be about connecting people. Those should not just be the geeks, but I am definitely not against geeky content.

Post what brings you joy as others may like it too.

The End

I hope I am getting over my cold now so I can get back to running and making some music. Those are things I will happily post about and I find others who like them too. That is what social media should be as far as I am concerned. We have the added incentive of rewards here, but I consider that a bonus and it is not currently enough to keep me here without the socialising.

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Comments · 5

  • @blanchy(75)· 31m

    That's a good name change Steve. "Better Reddit" . Somewhat like the cafe in America that set up called "Not Starbucks" 🤣. I agree with you over the Discord. It gets too feisty in there and it always gets personnel. Poor chap set up a front end and has lite accounts and he gets lambasted. During my development of Sportsblock lite accounts were a major problem that I struggled with and I switched a couple of times from one method to another. The major Hive Do you hold the keys in escrow until they get the hang of it and download their keys or what is the answer. The solution was meant to be in the hard fork but I have yet to see it. Until then there will be debate over whether a lite account is a lite account. Every front end looks to do it slightly different but there are no right or wrong way here until the core team sort this one out.

  • @lordbutterfly(80)· 1h

    We have the various short-form options, but I still think those need some improvements to be more useful...

    Issue is that those have been literally made second grade apps on Hive. They live in containers because theyre not allowed to show up in peoples feeds on any other Hive app, otherwise they get downvoted and downvotes can kill most early adoption on Hive.

    "You are allowed to exist but I dont for a second want to see content thats not at least 500 words long in my feed, otherwise ill disagree on rewards. Content that I also know most people dont read but thats how we do things here."

    Hilariously stupid at the time of Ai. Actually funny, if theres something I have to say that could probably be 2 sentences, and could easily generate as much engagment as a long post, but be read far more, I just get ChatGPT to expand it to 500 words or something so its not downvoted. Congratz, you just added extra steps.

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  • @molometer(72)· 1h

    It's a bit surprising to read some of the criticism about people's posts.

    Expecting ordinary everyday people to write blog posts equivalent to War and Peace or the complete works of Shakespeare is hilarious and ludicrous at the same time.

    As you mentioned this place is about finding people who share our interests and that we have something in common with.

    That isn't to say that we may have a Shakespeare here already but we haven't found them...yet!

  • @solorzanot(66)· 1h

    Great weekly roundup, @steevc It’s awesome to see the market movement and that creative initiative of writing crypto

  • @bozz(83)· 2h

    I hope you get feeling better soon! I didn't make it to Hivefest either. :)