Following up on my previous post about all the work I usually have ahead of me, I thought I'd also mention some of the fun activities I like to do on Hive that don't feel like work.
Curating and commenting on posts in my feed, usually from people I interact with often.
Finding new authors to follow, some that may have been around for longer but we somehow haven't crossed paths yet (still happens often and snaps is a great place to find such users).
Discussing parts of curation, abuse-fighting, general stuff that goes on on hive on chats (potentially maybe even on a decentralized discord alternative soon which I hear @theycallmedan is working on). Some times these things can be quite fun, especially if some abuse attempts are so desperate and sad you can't really do anything but laugh at them.
Like, it's kind of crazy all the things that go on here, human mining basically. Whereas Bitcoin you just have computers doing literal brute force guessing to maybe get a reward sometime or share that reward in a pool with other machines belonging to other people. On ethereum it's mostly proof of stake now but there's still things to do but it is all based on spending your eth or other coins to be able to do them. Solana seems to be Tron 2.0 where in the past we used to joke about Tron being a dead fake chain with just bots and dumbasses on socials promoting it while there's mainly just gambling on there - which is a breath of fresh air that there's so little of it here.
I'm just, relieved in many ways. Although I don't think the price reflects well on hive most of the time, the sheer losing yourself in doing things that the chain enables is quite something. Maybe all of this won't have any meaning in the end, maybe it'll feel like when a user you've invested a lot of inflation towards suddenly goes crazy and starts farming/abusing the chain and leaves blaming everyone else. But I can't help but feel that our actions here have counter-actions almost on a daily basis, even if we've been here for a long time now where getting votes doesn't really feel like much anymore or having certain effort be validated and potentially rewarded in other ways.
What would you be doing on other chains right now? Look at the price of a coin and pray/hope it changes its course soon so you can sell the coin you bought to someone for a higher price? What does that do? Like really, think of the value generation and effects that has to humanity as a whole? You profited, grats, now go spend that fiat on something.
You started a token and rugged some gamblers for some profit? Grats, hope that makes you feel better!
You're working on a side-project where you're trying to use your service as a middleman to take a fee for allowing people to use your token as a payment service? Yawn, that's so old by now and most people don't seem interested while most chains will falter at allowing that to happen flawlessly given enough volume.
You're buying and selling coins based on your customers' wishes? That's so tradfi oldschool as well, one mistake and you're going to lose so many people's funds. Let them take care of their own keys.
You're grinding your web2 socials to have a larger voice for your favorite tokens or to earn by shilling them to your followers? Meh.
Seeing your portfolio drop in value and you can't do anything about it? You can't keep yourself busy with work or continue building out your ideas and plans.
Dunno about you, but I welcome all the usecases that Hive offers. I realize we're still quite early and the focus and longterm vision isn't there for many yet with many probably just being new to earning online to begin with. If I wasn't on Hive, I probably wouldn't be looking at crypto markets often. I would probably just be stuck at some regular job grinding it out like I imagine 99% of people are. So no matter the price, I know this chain is not going to go anywhere and I'm relieved and grateful for the things it enables me to do and build on here and hopefully those things will make life better and easier for future users to come and I can count all the effort I've put on here worth it at the end.
