Getting excited about Hive again šŸ”„

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After 5 years in this community, itā€™s easy to get fatigued. I put my heart or brain into a post almost every day for more than half of those 5 years. Thatā€™s time I could have spent doing other things, but I am happy I spent it here, I just need to balance things because I have a lot of other things going on in my life, and itā€™s easy to get sucked into something with so much potential.

Add to that the fact that most of my favorite communities fell apart due to their own fatigue or lack of support. I tend to gravitate towards people who arenā€™t ultra focused on money and with crypto the money is a major focus. This creates a strange contrast where despite feeling like Iā€™m part of this thing (and also enjoying making money, make no mistake), I donā€™t really feel like Iā€™m part of the in crowd at all.

I tried to put all my energy into Cross Culture but in the end I burned out with that too. It takes an immense amount of work to build a successful community at hive that is both sustainable and fun. You need resources but most of all you need time and focus and I canā€™t commit in the same way some others can. I am an artist and explorer first and foremost, after all.

@Crossculture is still alive and well but after our delegators and trail support left the platform and we couldnā€™t find new ones, weā€™ve been curating a lot more casually and we are mostly just doing it for fun without thinking too much about lofty plans.

Too much time in this one community really blocked me off from everything else that was going on at Hive. I stopped exploring. I was too busy. I stopped getting involved in other projects cause I hardly had time for my own.

In the spotlight, I saw the same projects pushing forward, good projects but not projects that feel like home to me. I remember the early days when there were a ton of discord channels that were active as hell at all hours of the day. THAT is what got me excited about Hive, countless people to meet in different niches, all overlapping with each other.

It started to feel like I knew everyone on Hive who was here to stay. Obviously thatā€™s impossible, but even if you know 30%, your gets harder to find new people you really vibe with. As much as I respect splinterlands and Leo, they arenā€™t much of a home for me.

I also failed to really convince the powerful people here of certain points that I really hoped to make or to gain their respect as a community builder, to really feel like I got the respect I deserved for putting so much of my life into this community. I think everyone feels like this sometimes if they get really into this place. Everyone is too wrapped up in their own thing and it feels like no one cares about your thing. Itā€™s natural though. We are all spread thin and focused on our own thing

Iā€™m not talking shit here. This is just how things go. My biggest supporters left and I had a hard time finding new ones and too much going on in my life.

Itā€™s the same with neighborhoods. A town will pop up with such great energy that fits me and then it changes and I need to adapt. Sometimes itā€™s better. Sometimes itā€™s worse.

So I was feeling a little lost and like Hive wasnā€™t as exciting as it used to be.

And then yesterday that all changed in a moment.

I finally tried to chat in the pizza chat which I had joined a while ago and ignored because Iā€™m in 50 different discord groups. I have to say itā€™s the most active and friendly discord channel Iā€™ve come across in a long time. It feels just like the bull market in 2017 at steem. Lots of excitement. All kinds of overlap and synergy with other communities.

Itā€™s literally the first time that I found a room full of people that I didnā€™t know in probably 4 years. I got to know everyone a little bit and they dropped a ton of information on me.

Apparently pizza isnā€™t just a tipping token, and itā€™s not only a defi token, itā€™s also being integrated into all kinds of services for payment and gaming. I had no idea.

You can buy games off steam with Pizza!

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Check out hive.pizza !

But the real thing I like is just how many people seem really excited to welcome you to the community and how little of that cynical ā€œtoo cool for schoolā€ bullshit there was. Itā€™s that cynicism that turns me off the most so I love when there is low levels of cynicism.

Then I was introduced to the Scholar and Scribe community for writing which is another community for writers, I had the idea to write some really short side stories related to my novella series and share them there.

Lastly, and most awesomely, I was reintroduced to hivelist.orgā€¦holy shit this site has made progress! Back when I first saw it it was just a place for classified ads where people could advertise their goods and services which in itself was a great idea. The only problem was that not many people were using it.

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Yesterday I discovered that they are using printify and other print on demand services to offer this kind of service to Hive members that want to pay in crypto! That means you can design a t-shirt or sticker and then upload your design and details and they will automate the whole process so anyone can buy it off hivelist.

I literally just opened up a shop on Redbubble to sell merchandise, and while Redbubble costs more you donā€™t need your own site. Printify on the other hand often costs less
But requires you to set up your own shopā€¦ Hivelist solves that problem by letting you use their site to list your products. And youā€™ll be able to sell the products to people using Hive, bitcoin, pizza etc.

So Iā€™m getting ready to sell all my stuff on Hivelist and itā€™ll be a nice alternative for anyone who is on hive. Iā€™m not sure how much the production cost will be yet but if I can, Iā€™d like to make it cheaper for the hive community, but at least you will be able to use Hive to buy everything! Thatā€™s exciting!

I really think the key to keeping the price of hive stable is to get people using hive and hbd as a currency. Offer and buy goods and services with hive and itā€™ll reduce selling pressure! Thatā€™s what we want, thatā€™s why I love Hive List and the potential it has for hive.

So now I have a new discord chat to hang out in with a ton of energetic people, and I also am getting ready to offer my novella series and merchandise with Hive as a payment option.

I havenā€™t been this excited about Hive in a while! Yes!

Let me know if there are any new and exciting things going on at Hive or communities you just discovered!

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In the middle of last year when the price of Proof Of Brain (POB) tokens were around 1$ the POB discord channel was heaven, man! I also remember 2017 too, the steemit related discord channels were on fire too! It mostly takes the bulls to have people excited around here and like you said, it's natural.

Cool that you've found a sweet channel again, this hivelist seems really cool too šŸ˜Ž.

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Pizza feels like that now. I kind of want to hang out there, but then again I'd also like to help other discords get there, so it depends on my mood. :-D

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Well, 5 years at consistency, it's really easy to get burned, I know you're in reflection mode currently and you're taking the time to shuffle things, this makes it easier to consider your journey, weighing if it's been worth it or not. In reality, I think it may have been worth it, even it not completely 100%.
Let's acknowledge the fact that it's difficult to deal with how Hive is constantly changing and how you tend to lose people overtime. It's how it is, I've accepted that and made peace with it.
Nevertheless, I've met brilliant people as you and many others who I've kept in contact with for so long, I definitely don't think I'm the type to choose money over people, and basically I appreciate your friendship over these years. I want you to know I'll always be here.

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Thanks man! That's why I tried to add people on twitter and instagram. I imagine I'll stick around here as long as it's around, but just in case someone leaves I don't want to lose touch with them. That happened a lot in the early days and I wish I had stayed in touch. I have a good feeling we will meet in person too. :-D You are one of the people who kept me around during one of my hive low points

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Instagram has been a great touch and a very viable way to keep in touch with people. Sometimes it isn't our fault that we don't keep in touch with people it might be the circumstances in which they left that actually made it impossible. But we can always do better.
We're actually going to meet in person, I believe this is a bigger reality. Hope you've been well?

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Ya man we gotta catch up on discord soon. Iā€™ll hit you up.

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