It's common for me to do the same. Tangent land. No worries.
And I agree. The abundance of AI generated content is acting more like a shiny trinket keeping people glued to the sites and that's money for the site.
Here that doesn't quite work. In my view this platform has always been more like the streets. In the early days, once I started to feel like a busker with my content, people took notice. Always carried that mindset with me. This was the closest thing on internet, to that experience. Combined with streaming, could come even closer. Combined with several here just for the show, being present and dropping votes rather than this crypto mining strategy, we're damn near there. But I could talk about this stuff for days and go nowhere. I still think it's worth it. Sucks being the only one. lol
What mainstream is and what mainstream could be, don't have to be the same. Always said, "The easiest way to stay behind is to follow trends." We're ahead of the curve in many ways. Holding ourselves back in many ways as well.
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