What We're Doing, Hasn't Been Working!

This afternoon, quite a few of us on $LEO were hanging out with @taskmaster4450 for his weekly 'This Week In Hive' Space on Twitter.

(If you want to check it out, be sure to click here for the recording!)

It's always great hearing from the community about what's going on with InLeo and Hive as a whole, but an uncomfortable topic appeared once again...

And I have to credit @nonsowrites for it. He Threaded out...."Everything that we've been doing over the past 5 years has brought us to this place. Obviously things need to change!"

I'm paraphrasing but that was the general idea....We've done it one way, all these years...And for context that 'way' has been to promote the blockchain to the masses.

All the budgets, DHF proposals, concepts, strategies, influencers....All of it has brought us to right here, where we are today. And if you are happy with how things are, fantastic! Personally, I am happy with how things are building specifically on LEO, but I also have a big dream...And my dream is to see this blockchain represent a way for people across the globe to feed their families from their effort here.

I'm not at that place yet, where I can support my family from the chain, but I am building towards that future. And each and every day, I know I am getting closer. But what was intriguing about hearing the talk this afternoon on Spaces and the general idea I got from most in attendence is that....

We really do a horrible job of being products of our own product.

We run around, talking about how great our blockchain is....Meanwhile, we don't even use it ourselves. What do I mean?

How many players on Splinterlands, even use LEO to micro-blog about their matches? But go to Twitter and see them all there. Heck, how many of them even use the Splinterlands front end for blogging for that matter?

How many people run to Twitter spaces (ironic huh) rather than actually use the tools right here on chain? @vimm is back, combine that with Threads for our own version of Spaces.

Where can I find all these influencers that are supposed to be talking up Hive.....Oh I know, there aren't on LEO and I guarantee they are on Twitter talking about Solana right now.

I threw this Thread up after the show, because I am kind of getting tired of the hypocrisy of this blockchain....

This is what I said:

Want to know the secret to $LEO:$0.06 and how it become a $1 token?

Use it, every day, a lot!
Buy $LEO, earn it, and then STAKE IT!
Spread the token around by upvoting other Lions!

This is as grassroots as it gets!

Want to see Hive have a massive 2024?

Use this stuff. Every. Single. Day! And maybe, we need to spend less time talking about the blockchain and more time talking up the apps we are using!

I know I have written about this countless times over the years, but it needs to be said again. We use the excuse that we are trying to 'reach out to web2 to generate attention for web3'...Meanwhile, most don't even use the web3 products that are right here.

Literally, our own worst enemy!

I hope we all do better in 2024. I know I need to do better in 2024. Because if I'm going to talk about how great this blockchain is and how much of a life changing platform this is....I better start walking the walk!

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