Many people have wondered where I have been and I figured this will be way faster than repeated DM's on discord. I have always enjoyed Steemit as a means to connect with people around the world on a personal level in a way that you just can't achieve on Facebook or Twitter. I found Weku through Steemit as well as Smoke. I also joined a whaleshares server as my first discord experience.
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November 3rd, 2017 was my first experience with the whaleshares crowd. I had just joined Steemit in September of the same year and found the whaleshares community soon after. It was a very strange experience as I was always very big on steem.chat and had never been a discord user prior to joining whaleshares.
As time went on my experiences with many users grew deeper and deeper, I delivered a baby since joining here, had another son diagnosed as Autistic, had my wife join steemit, got some custom art trades with people like
@saywha and 
@deadspace and even got a big ass steem calf tattoo, which I lived streamed, after the community voted on what the tattoo would be.I've watched flag wars, communities come and go, vote bots, card games get created and it got harder and harder to feel good about coming here daily and looking for people to support. That was when I found dLive and started having fun on the platform again. That soon was taken away in a flaming ball of shit right on the platform in live action. That really opened my eyes up to many people I knew on the platform. People who did the same thing as dLive did with Steemit delegations bitch about dLive leaving and "walking off" with the profits when they themselves do the same thing with delegations from the community. Even saw one community funded account flagging with delegations they were trusted with. That all happened and I still stuck it out and did the feed a minnow program with
@hitmeasap, 
@simplymike, and 
@lyndsaybowes.The lack of support that project got from others who could have easily given a few steem or SBD each week really painted a bigger picture. It told me how many focus solely on themselves and really don't give a shit about others unless they get something in return. HF20 didn't help any of these feelings get any easier either. My wife then asked me, whatever happened to that other site that was coming?
That new site was whaleshares.io, I had to look through my emails to see if my approval link came. It had never come, so I submitted a new account approval form and joined whaleshares.io on Oct 9, 2018. It has been an amazing ride with tons of engagement and large rewards since inflation is still pushing 80% or better. I did the Beast challenge my first week there and got to know a lot of people I saw on steemit but never talked to. I started helping out and running a curation team that focuses on giving rewards in place of getting them. I was happy as a pig in shit. I was able to post on Steemit, whaleshares, weku and smoke and make 4 different types of crypto each week just for writing and engaging people. I started off strong on whaleshares and have never stopped adding things to my to do list.
Whaleshares had a handful of witnesses turn their servers off or couldn't afford them any longer and I decided to step up and add being a witness to my to do list. On January 24th, 2019 I started the
@unity account and started my witness. I was currently doing and coaching the second round of the Beast during this week. I didn't care about the extra work or cost, I started a witness to help secure the chain. I then also issued a bitshares asset to directly control 100% of the witnesses mana and voting power. The witness is run as a community witness where the community controls the power of the account. I do not manually vote with the account at all. That has been my whaleshares.io journey so far.Now, I would like to invite a few people to join me on the whaleshares.io platform. Reply to this post telling me an experience you have had on steemit and why you love it.
Check it all out!
My personal account: https://whaleshares.io/@erodedthoughts
Community Witness Account: https://whaleshares.io/@unity
Witness Asset: http://www.bts.ai/a/wisdom
Official Discord: https://discord.gg/BERmnG