I know this may not be the best question to ask in a post, since most of you who see it are indeed eating your own dog food, meaning you're using the platform/ecosystem/blockchain on a regular basis.
I'm however mostly pointing the question out to our witnesses/devs/etc.
Isn't it a bit weird that most just sit behind the shadows and barely use the platform for social reasons?
I can understand some are very busy, leading a team of multiple people so they don't have the time to be active daily, there are however some I highly doubt they're doing much outside of that and they barely use the dapps/front-ends. It's a bit odd to me.
The only thing that makes sense is that they probably just get active when there's something to be earned rather than actually enjoying the existing things hive has to offer and the community.
Now I'm someone who does enjoy being active daily and hope this place turns into a better Reddit eventually, better than it is now but even better than the old Reddit where I mostly enjoyed my time being social online. If it was up to me I'd hire people to do the daily things I gotta do to make things run so I could spend more time just consuming content/shortform/other here and engaging with users as that's what mostly drew me to this place and what I mostly did in my first year of being active here.
Over time however I noticed some missing pieces that required me to step in and become a curator. It's probably no surprise to some of you as I have mentioned it time and time before that I like keeping things manual on this account, so you know whenever a vote is left it's been me reading or engaging with a piece of content/comment. Many opt for the other ways however.
Even at this point in time when I finally can do a lot of things myself with the help of AI and I'm struggling to keep things moving with the many projects I got running, I still make time for posts and comments and to manually curate things on different feeds/dapps/places.
Dunno the point of this post really, but I see a lot of people who come back and are all like "oh well I've been here active all along" and "not just cause there's something I'm interested in getting a piece of the pie from the current discussion", while there's been very little if any proof that they've been active on any chats/blockchain.
I also don't really understand some people who mainly sit in discords all day while they let their projects they believed in so much wither and die, even after having spent so much money from the collective Hive fund.
Probably just waiting for father time to erase the memories of their failures and hoping that when things turn around they'll be welcomed back to get some more of that juice that's flown into our ecosystem.
Dunno about you but I usually have a pretty good memory, if anything I think it's healthy to look around every now and then and wonder if you feel like some people still deserve your autovotes, witness votes, proposal votes, follows, attention, etc. If it feels like it's been too much words without substance in the past it's probably time to move on rather than keep being dragged behind or fall into the same pitfalls over and over again.
Being constantly active is also not easy however, doesn't matter what you say or actions you do, there's always and will always be a percentage that take it the wrong way or choose to do so. It's kind of the nature of censorship resistance/freedom of speech I suppose. Hopefully the wisdom of the crowd keeps being fair as majority stake over time, once that changes I'll probably won't be active here any longer.
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