How I Turned Into a Bot
It all started 2 years ago. A friend got me into cryptocurrency. Chainlink. Lanky lookin’ stanky. My friend Wass the gatekeeper, and Chainlink was the gateway into the crypto space. There’s so much in the crypto space, and the more I looked into it, the more hooked I became.
I was reading white papers, and talking about projects with team members on Telegram. You know… a very sophisticated investor. I was responsibly dollar cost averaging into the market. Alright, I’ll be honest. I was dumping every little cent I had into crypto. There was one point when I was buying it on my credit card. I know it’s heavily advised not to do such a thing. However, I couldn’t help myself. I was building a ‘you made it stack’ or possibly it could be a ‘suicide stack’, depending on how things turned out. Flying with the short highs. Riding out the long lows.
After using all my fiat to load up on crypto, the drive for more still persisted. At this point, it then became about how I can earn and accumulate crypto on the internet. Eventually, this led me to Torum. A social media platform wrapped up in cryptocurrency and NFTs… very addicting.
At first, I was justing posting the same shit over an over again. I didn’t know what I was doing. All I knew was that I was collecting xtm... and that was a good thing. With some time passing, I realized there was more to just collecting xtm. Many likes on posts provided a dopamine rush in your brain. A larger followership broadened the horizons and furthered one’s reach. It was at this point where I began to pursue the appeasement of the Torum algorithm, wether I realized this or not.
Have you ever heard of the concept of functionality? Basically, over time and through trial and error, things become more and more efficient. At first, I didn’t know what I was doing. Getting a lot of ‘likes’ seemed to be a good thing. So, I tried to post better content. Some posts that had legs and often did well with ‘likes’ were memes. I took other people’s memes from multiple different websites. It’s strange. The good ones get a lot of attention. I basked in the glory from sharing someone else’s creation. This is socially accepted stolen valor.
As time went on, I came to an understanding that the best way to ascertain the largest following was to satisfy Torum’s algorithm. The best way to do this (as I understand it anyway), is to stay logged in, and to occasionally make posts that get a fair amount of likes. Now Torum was something more than social interaction, memes, NFTs, and cryptocurrency. It became about gaining followership and appeasing the algorithm. I now stay logged on as much as possible. Even when I’m not home, I leave my computer on. I make sure I post something in the feed every so often. This often includes me stopping what I’m doing so I can post something from my phone. Have you heard people say that in the future we humans will be slaves to computers? If this were to happen, I think this would unfold in a similar scenario in which I laid out. We’ll all be serving a master computer because we’ll be incentivized to do so.
Hello, @djjourneyman23
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Okay. Thank you for your response. I appreciate it. Also, I referred someone (and I plan on referring a lot more) however, I don't see that referral reward.
I'm sure it will come in time. Some things on the blockchain are not instant.