RE: Follow Friday: Indecent proposal

Hi my friend Steve,

Thanks for this kind mention. I was also checking out the other users you mentioned.

About Splinterlands—I couldn't really stick with it because the game has become really difficult lately. I also wanted to earn some benefits from it, but as a new user, I felt like I would have to spend a year or more just to see a small return. So, it wasn’t for me. I'd rather focus on my artistic side and pursue things that can truly shape my future. Even if not for money, art and music are deeply connected to who I am.

That said, I have nothing negative to say about them. Every project faces challenges, and that’s completely normal, just like when my brothers and I worked on different projects and failed. It happens in any business, even Hive.

Well, I should say, It's not easy to compete with well-known platforms, especially the ones I dislike—Instagram, Facebook, and other Zuckerberg-owned platforms. They don’t offer real value to people; instead, they manipulate psychology to keep users engaged in a cycle of comparison, jealousy, and endless posting, as if life were a competition. These platforms thrive on creating emotional struggles, making people resentful of each other while chasing artificial validation. Mentally, they take a toll on users, who end up mindlessly scrolling and wasting precious hours of their lives, often late into the night.

Anyway, I don’t want to write too much, but I felt these things needed to be said. The big platforms stay on top because they have wealth and strong connections. Still, I appreciate a platform like Hive and hope more people join. I also hope Hive’s ecosystem evolves to a point where there’s no one left to blame. Saying, "People shouldn’t cash out" isn’t fair because Hive, like the old Steemit, was built on the idea that your voice has value, just like how article writers earn money on other websites. I hope it reaches a balance where all sides—investors, admins, managers, and users can benefit and be satisfied.

I’m not against Hive, I really want it to grow and get better. I hope the team, managers, admins, or witnesses, whoever is working on it, can find good solutions to fix the problems. I don’t have the answers, but that’s just my opinion.

At the same time, I see that adding ads across the platform is another way to generate revenue and keep the system running. While it may not solve everything, it helps cover losses and address some of the challenges Hive faces.

I listened to Break Out The Crazy, Thanks Steve that was a Nice choice, I really enjoyed it and gave them some feedback.

I saw Michael Reischer’s post and your comment on it a few days ago. I agree with you, AI still has a lot of flaws. For example, I often have to repeat my question multiple times before it understands. Once, I asked about the history of Iran, Persepolis, and Pasargadae, but ChatGPT gave me completely incorrect information. It mixed them up and provided a totally wrong history of Pasargadae instead of Persepolis.

You’re right about creativeness and collaboration. it was really great to see users collaborating on Hive. I also heard harbiter and sunsethunter—they are two great musicians, and their solo collaboration was really awesome.

Arsenic Lullaby is also doing great work. When I was a child, I always wished to have comic books, but we never had them where I lived. Later, when I was in high school, I started drawing some simple comics with a pen, but those just became memories. When I grew older, everything became digital, and the world changed. But I still love comics, so I gave him a follow to see more of his great work.

About the attacks—that’s really bad. I hope the team can find a way to fix it. Thanks to HiveWatcher for managing it so far.

LOL, I suddenly saw at the end that you mentioned commenting, I didn’t write all of this just because of the last line about rewards. , but I thought it was better to leave separate comments for each part you mentioned here.

Thanks for all the good work you’re doing here Steve. Keep it up, my friend!