One of the best tips you will hear to combat adversity.

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¿What? you couldn't access to your Hive blog today?

¡Alright! ¡keep reading!

Yep, apparently the Hive blockchain today has been behaving in an unstable and erratic way almost all day. Yeah, even at this very moment that I'm writing this post.

¡Check it out!

Oh yeah, but surely it's just because I've been trying to use the hive.blog front-end to access my account and write & publish my stuff. What I suspect (I only suspect) has probably not affected to many other users who rather use other web interfaces (UI) to access their blogs and publish their content. ¿Am I right?

And yes, surely you are now wondering why I continue using hive.blog and I'm not using other more elaborated, developed and sophisticated UIs in the chain. Right?

Well, maybe it's just because in addition to the habit and also due to my already known lousy and sluggish internet connection. I find the hive.blog web interface way more easy to load and more clean and light to write, format, create and publish my content.

So, in the midst of my frustration and difficulties to publish my content today. While I was waiting for the problem to be fixed. It occurred to me to work on something else. Yeah, something else! Although still related to today's discouraging experience.

Almost a month ago. Twenty-three days ago to be more exact. I wrote a somewhat strange and cryptic post to spread an important message across the whole Hive ecosystem and its living inhabitants. Oh yeah, you can read it here if you want.

In that old post. I talk about a curious subject that I find somehow alarming and discouraging from my point of view. Yeah, click on the red letters above and read it before continuing. This way I think you will understand this post a little better.

As many of you may have noticed, it's been a few weeks in which we can feel a great decline in activity in our blockchain as for content creation, comments & interaction and engagement in general. Everything has been feeling a bit desolate these last days.

And interestingly, I recently heard that 3/4 of the transactions that are generated right now on the hive blockchain comes only from gaming platforms like Splinterlands.

So, in between these two facts. The difficulty of accessing our blogs today and the fact that lately everyone seems to have instantly become exclusively into silent "gamers" on the blockchain. It was then when I decided to do that "other thing" that I already mentioned before. I set out to edit the video of that old post meanwhile.

In such a way that the important message of that old post and this post will reach to everyone in our platform in a more complete, eloquent, coherent and universal way.

So, I dedicated some time to translating the video into English. Editing it and generating subtitles in English in sync with the audio as best as I could. With the intention that more people could understand the title of this article more clearly and absorb much better what we would have to do in days and adverse situations like today. };)

Of course. Don't forget to click on the CC icon in the play bar and select the English language before playing the video. Because if you don't, you will miss out on all the great work I did to get his and my message across to you more clearly.

If you liked it, you understood it better now and you think I did a good job with the translation and subtitling. Yeah please, let me know in the comments section of this post and maybe I'll translate a few more videos from this great Author & Vlogger soon.

"At the moment I am trying to make contact with this author and youtuber. To tell him about all the benefits and advantages of publishing his excellent audiovisual content on our blockchain. (Immutability, censorship resistance, content ownership, ability to generate incomes and yeah, all that other malarkey that you already know) And hopefully, if I can convince him, attract and onboard him here getting him to open an account on Hive so that he can reach to a greater captive audience that I bet will be eager to enjoy of a more serious and brainy content with intellectual messages of real value that won't be just for gamers, my job is done" So, wish me luck! :)

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WOW, thats a great vid! Not only insightful, but this guy is funny as well. Love that. Now, the translation, not sure if this 'egg' is indeed what is used in the Italian language, or it is you adding a bit of your own humour into the translation. Took me a little time to understand what 'egg' is used for. That said, as mentioned, I enjoyed this guy. Love the examples he gives, he makes them come alive with all the details given... The old coupon lady for example ... LOL material for sure hahahaha

Great you are trying to get him onboard at HIVE. 3Speak maybe a solution for him, though he may not like (like so many other vid publishers), the vids at 3Speak can be downloaded. DTube I think doesn't give a download option. That said, he can share his work published at Vimeo, YT or whatever with a blog post at HIVE.

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Thank you for the support my friend. :)

And I'm very glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah! this guy is truly funny and has a philosophical sense of humor pretty similar to mine. LoL

Now, the translation, not sure if this 'egg' is indeed what is used in the Italian language, or it is you adding a bit of your own humour into the translation. Took me a little time to understand what 'egg' is used for.

Well, this guy actually is spaniard. So, "egg" could be more accurately translated in english as "nuts", "balls", that pair of thingies we the men have hanging inside the sack of our crotches you know? ;D

However, I opted to be a bit more literal and faithful to the spanish name and meaning of the word "huevo" in the translation. Yeah you know? Just to make it sounds less rude and inappropriate. Hahahaha

That said, as mentioned, I enjoyed this guy. Love the examples he gives, he makes them come alive with all the details given... The old coupon lady for example ... LOL material for sure hahahaha

Oh yeah! the coupons lady was indeed a pretty funny and good metaphor that he used to describe with more precision the sort of peculiar characters he had been referring to along the video. No doubt it's LOL material.

Great you are trying to get him onboard at HIVE. 3Speak maybe a solution for him, though he may not like (like so many other vid publishers), the vids at 3Speak can be downloaded. DTube I think doesn't give a download option.

Yep, prolly 3Speak or DTube both might be good video platforms within the hive blockchain that could be attractive for him to share his audiovisual material without necessarily having to get involved a lot in learning and mastering all the intricacies of the blockchain from the beginning. I will try to explain to him beforehand everything I can about the platform and how it works without scaring him too much.

But it still remains to be seen what is his interest and willingness to learn new publishing platforms sharing his videos in a social network with blockchain technologies once I contact him. Let's hope he may be interested.

In any case and as you mentioned, he can perfectly continue publishing his videos on Vimeo and Youtube while simultaneously he can slowly learn and get the pulse of how the video platforms work in Hive and then also obtain a few additional benefits from his efforts as a professional author and vlogger with great and quality material that I'm sure everyone over here will enjoy and appreciate. };)

Cheers!! :)

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Great stuff 🤣 'Know' a few content publishers myself that I like to get onboarded, similar to your guy creating quality content. Though I didn't really reach out to these peeps and companies, since I believe some quality content corner needs to be established first. Maybe I'm too negative thinking but have seen too many quality content creators come and go (very quickly) when they discovered the amount of crap content in trending, while their own content didn't get traction in terms of engagement as well as rewards. Which UI will you pitch to this guy? What community will you pitch?

I am wondering, maybe we should think of setting up a new community for quality content creators. The other day I was playing with the community features and was hoping it was possible to hide users for everybody in the channel. However, it doesn't seem to work like that. The community account can hide users, like you and I can hide users, but just for the user, not for other users. That in itself is a darn shame since I believe community channels need proper moderation tools which include removing content and content creators from the channel, for everybody within that channel.

What are your views on these topics?

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Though I didn't really reach out to these peeps and companies, since I believe some quality content corner needs to be established first.

Yeah! among many other things to surpass, that's one for sure that keep us refraining of go willy-nilly out there trying of going around making people fall in love with our "elevator pitch" and attracting them to our home without resistance.

Which UI will you pitch to this guy?

As for UI maybe I would pitch PeakD.com which I've heard is the most robust, developed and features rich of all.

What community will you pitch?

Well, specifically for him and the type of content he produce, prolly I would suggest proofobrain.io tribe in first place. And then, maybe a handful of communities, that depending of the subject, he could easily share his stuff using the tags.

I am wondering, maybe we should think of setting up a new community for quality content creators.

Yeah, perhaps we should. Several times before I've been tempted to create a community. One in which the sense of humor, good music, inspiring philosophical content of height and quality content that really makes us think and question things be the priority.

But then after a few minutes, I realize my terrible internet connection would prevent me from taking charge of the community with responsibility and the necessary agility required. And then, the temptation disappears instantly and I lose the desire. Hahahaha

What are your views on these topics?

Well, in principle I agree with those characteristics that you mention that communities should have in terms of moderation and autonomy. However, I suspect that those are easier to achieve and unique to the tribes. A matter of keeping a separate website with its own token, dashboard, rules and UI.

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Tribes: I only believe n tribes (own token and all) when devs are part of the team to bring the tribe forward with a cool UI + additional features for whatever is need to make such tribe successful. I don't believe in the so many tribes out there taking the standard UI while not tailoring their tribe to the needs. PoB seems to be successful, though that one is pushed by some of the LEO whales, as far as I understand. Not sure what the token is doing at the moment after a big hype earlier this year. I think it's losing some of its value in recent weeks/months..... Ok, just checked.... it is losing quite a lot of its value in the last month, at least 50%. I have no clue why that is, but probably a set of reasons incl overhyped in its early days as well as no dev around the tribe.

HIVE: in my view, HIVE is still way too small to fall apart into tribes and all, hence I like the community feature. That said, the community features are not good enough yet.

New Community: I'm all for launching a new community aiming at the topics you mentioned. Would love to have such a corner. As you, many times I had the urge to launch one. In the end, I launched qsounds community, but for some reason, I lost energy again to keep on promoting it. Then suddenly Qanon peeps started to post in that community, probably because the branding was 'Q' when I launched it. Another reason I probably stopped promoting this community, is the fact I'm the only one in the team :) With some good peeps (I know I few), it would become easier to get and, foremost, keep things going. Will your internet situation change for the better any time soon? Read 'soon' as in sometime this year? With my Curie vote power, we can even give some additional rewards. At the same time, we shall hunt for OCD support and all. When possible also from theycallmedan and others. Who knows, later in time when HIVE becomes more popular, or the new community becomes more popular with quality and fun content, a tribe can be establish. At that time its gonna be easier as well to add some devs to the team, which is required imho.

Anyway, from time to time I get lots of energy to start something new at HIVE, but at the same time I feel reluctant because of the dynamics around blogging (super low engagement, too many just post dropping, too many curator teams continuously handing out large votes for peeps that are not playing the social element within HIVE, which doesn't help to improve the status quo).

Let me know when you think of some new project or approach, or you like to contribute to a cool community. Always open for 1) good ideas 2) good discussions 3) working with valued users to at least try to do something different in the HIVE eco-system.

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I use hive.blog mostly too for the reasons you state above. It's just easier. Apart from when it is fumped that is.

I am glad you reminded us to clock the 'cc' button :0D

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I use hive.blog mostly too for the reasons you state above.

Oh! then I suppose we must be both members of the lousy internet connection "brotherhood" eh? Hahahaha

It's just easier. Apart from when it is fumped that is.

Yep, you can swear it's fumped sometimes. Like just right now. That I had to try six times before this comment finally were published. ¡Holy shit! :D

I am glad you reminded us to clock the 'cc' button :0D

Oh yeah, of course. I had to do it because I know that everyone is always wandering around here in a perpetual damn hurry without read first the instructions of consumption all the time. LoL ;o)

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I have done that before with a comment and tried to post it six times and each time getting some nonsense error and then boom, I go back and it has actually published the damn thing 6 times!

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and then boom, I go back and it has actually published the damn thing 6 times!

Haha yeah, I've noticed it too. It would appear that the blockchain wanted to facilitate greater immutability for our nonsense with replicas. But luckily, I noticed the echoed repetitions quickly enough and eliminated them in the spot. ;o)

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