RE: Trying this via 😎 Snapie (Call 4 Action) 💪
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Well, thank you very much! But as nice as it is to hear, honestly I would not place myself among those who know a thing or two in either the realms of trading, finance, and economics, or in the area of computing, science, and technology. So I feel deeply honored to be recognized by someone who is obviously much more knowledgeable on blockchain stuff than me.
Though I realize, everything is relative, and I certainly do know much more than complete newbies. So having said that, let me ask you: Which direction would you think is most reasonable for someone at my level to be sent off to? In other words, how can I use my skills and knowledge here on Hive, and to what purpose? Because, to be perfectly frank, this has always been the question accompanying me, as I immersed myself into exploring various things people seemed to get excited about: What for? And I still don't know.
That's the one million dollar question indeed, isn't it? And the simplest (but often not useful) answer is, depends on what you are looking for.
I am a bit always all over the place and usually identified as someone positive, excited and always looking forward to march ahead. I rarely open up deep dialogs with lots of criticism or negativity (even if funded) because that's more or less how I am in life. Does not mean I don't see the bads, and all of those things... I just cope better with being on the positivism for my own mental health. The world already has too many dark sides :D - including my own one (when that manifests itself).
Having said that, and just as an example that might help you providing me some "extra info" for me to give it a try on recommending you something.
As an example, my main comfort zone is troubleshooting and learning about the guts of everything (that's more from my engineering side of it probably). But as I drilled along this path on Hive, I have started growing interest for solving certain problems the chain was not really actively focusing on, but that would both add more value to the chain (even if just a little percentage) or would make my life (on chain) easier. And that was the fact that living in NZ, my network distance to most things on Hive was the "longest" for me... (most things are in Europe and USA these days), and I am a really demanding person in terms of response times and how fluid things are (vs high resolution/quality of things in general).
So, naturally I have worked towards making this better for me, built my Hive-Engine node, and later my own witness and Hive API node. Then by trying to influence apps to provide the ability to select specific custom nodes, I was able to point the apps to my own infrastructure, and benefit from the local speed of things, which made me very happy about it.
At the same time, because the infrastructure is open, others (maybe around NZ, Oceania or even Asia) can also use it too. For free, no questions asked, like it should (while surviving the chaos of the world, aka hackers/scammers/etc). And around all this, I have also embarked on helping projects around the ecosystem, either with my testing skills or feedback.
This is where I mostly dedicate my time. Other than that is the pleasure of playing games, interacting with people, finding new things, meeting new people (like you for example). I am an explorer by nature. This all comes with extra knowledge that I accumulate over time allowing me to feel comfortable with my stake on the platform, while within my best ability, make an effort for teaching along the way.
So, what you want to focus on?
Anyhow, you get the idea. Hive is a very big place. I could throw you to anywhere (aka suggest) I would see "we need people in this area" but that area is probably the area where I most struggle in recommending or guide people, which is "clear communication for audiences to understand this big huge Hive Community project" (in a nutshell do marketing about Hive elsewhere and with the right things that people would care about retaining more of them long term), and that probably relates to the reason you are asking the question in first place.
I try it myself (outside of Hive I mean), but I am miserable at it... always end up feeling I am being more of a jester than anything else. 🤦♂️🤣 - But I really don't bother though and as long it does "something"... I am ok with it... and I think I can tell I did something already. Is it seen as valuable to everyone, probably not, but I will keep improving on what I do based on others feedback. This is a decentralized community, so if everyone does a bit of "something" they are good at, eventually the platform becomes quite valuable.
Along anything you may reply, if you also let me know any apps or things you enjoyed around Hive so far, that might help me stir the conversation to the right path.
Thanks
Well, I hope it was clear that with this kind of question I did not expect a short and easy answer. Instead I wanted to open up a discussion, sort of like what we are having.
I guess it goes back to my realization a few weeks ago, about Hive ... well, not being as hopping of a place as it used to be. Projects have failed (as they typically do, but it seemed like this happened more than they succeeded lately), the price of the coin is in the gutters (not something that has truly bothered me as much as others), and many amazing people have left (this is actually what I find most discouraging, and it is probably tied closely to the first two factors). Still, all of these things are not enough to get me to throw the towel, so I'm still here, along with a handful like minded Hivers. What now?
Over the month or so, I did get excited about a few things, as you can see in my blog. Other then my usual posts about food, beer, and murals, I found blocktunes, where I musicians can share their earnings with others, and scrobble.life, a new way to write and share reviews of films, series, books, etc. and slothbuzz, a new front-end where you can grow yourself a tamagochi like companion. - Yes, I know... still, it's something that caught my attention, even though so far I haven't managed to get one yet.
On Scrobble.life I had some issues figuring out how to write posts through their site which is not really intuitive. When I finally did, I shared it in a post that got some amazing resonance from loads of people who ran into the same issues. That was the teaching part you mentioned, and that was quite fun actually. Though other than being a messenger (number 4) I really hope that it does more of helping to grow the infrastructure. I don't mean in the programming sense (number 2), as that has never been my world, but instead adding to the activity by using things (number 3). That's also what I've been doing on blocktunes, though with a much smaller resonance.
Of course fun has always been my driving motivator (number 1), which got me to experience a bunch of things, including games like splinterlands, maffiawars, or dcity. All of them are in the past now, for various reasons. At some time I was also super enthusiastic about onboarding new people, and teaching newbies about Hive. Both have had very modest results. Then there is DeFi and such projects as Leo, Cub, and all the great hullabaloo around them, which I enjoyed being part of, but then didn't have the expected results. (Though honestly, I am not sure what I expected out of them personally.)
So again, this is not like a clear and distinct answer to your questions (to my question). It is much rather supposed to add to the big picture and lead the discussion hopefully to somewhere inspiring.
In any case, I appreciate any suggestion you may have, and I am happy to see that you're a witness I can vote for. After all, I've already had more personal interaction with you than with most other witnesses.
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Hey, I just tried to vote for you, but it says you are disabled as a witness. Why? How? What does that mean anyway?
This is my way 🫡 - even if deferred due to time zones.
Things changed... the lower prices filtered a couple of people I guess. But whom knows what is being achieved, may want to stay at "many costs", due to what people understand that is being done. And I can't convince people (should not), I can only teach people to verify.
I can keep feeding you projects almost every day until the end of the year if you want :D LOL (kidding). But in terms of rate, and if we consider they are "little projects/tools", then it's real... like the one I made recently about transactions... There is a point with this one (but later). The AI stuff just made super simple to create on top of Hive (which has basically zero costs).
If you fancy taking a bite at that kind of thing, I have created a recent post teasing people to JUST try it! here... if you try it, drop it below that post for me to test it, please.
You gave me just the right picture. Thanks. And I will get back to you... I need some time to think about it. Also, because it's quite late here, and at these hours, I am not really thinking too hard anymore (unless on urgent matters, where my survival instinct kicks in, like in most humans).
But thanks for sharing these. Let's keep chatting. I have some ideas already, but I need to form a consensus in my head.
I figured most people might hit this problem (but thanks for verifying). I had this account as my initial witness in a very long time ago... but because of the way I like to separate things (I like to separate things into separate accounts for a diverse multitude of technical reasons).
As my info says on this account, my witness is at @atexoras.witness (and on that witness, if you vote via Peakd, for example, it will state that this is me) - but keep on verifying (always best). There are lots of scammy people out there.
I sort of tried making this simpler, and I know it plays a little bit against me (using different accounts) in terms of votes, but I am fine with that, because the ones that vote, I know they are voting because they want and know who I am, and they are not doing it because of any interests. Which is what I want anyway.
Anyhow, appreciate your vote, especially when you have already voted for 30 witnesses (well done). And I am fine if you don't... I always say... I am here because I want, not because I need. 🫡
Will get back to you!
EDIT: almost forgot... the Hive Transactions Flow is sort of an effort I am making to show (aka prove) people that people can create a project with ZERO costs, even on its initial maintenance initiative. It's still ongoing, and I have been slowed down by the website company I am using, most likely, but I don't care, I have another way to continue within the same premises. I will update people in due time about it, and open source the code once I am happy with people trying it for fun.
Okay, no worries. Get some good sleep. Btw, my parents also live in NZ, in Whakatane, in the Bay of Plenty. (I'm sure you know where that is, Kiwis tend to know their country better than outsiders...) Where abouts are you located?
Oh, and it worked: now you got my vote as a witness.