You need to ask yourself a question before you take a break.
You only have 9 videos on 3Speak. You are getting engagement from on them. Even ones with no views are still getting upvotes. From what I understand those views are counted on 3Speak itself and those videos that dont have views may be getting them from somewhere else. A different front end or even the desktop app. Again, I am not a dev nor do I know how these things work.
Bitchute says they are decentralized but they arent. 3Speak and DTube are the closest you can get to decentralized video social media without going to just IPFS only. On IPFS there is literally 0 engagement by design. If you were to have only 9 videos on Oddeyess or YouTube you would have less engagement Remember these videos are displayed across other front ends. Not just 3Speak. I firmly believe, but have no idea how to prove it, that Bitchute inflates their views. Odeyesee is NOT decentralized and will never be since it is owned and operated by a company.
It's not an overnight thing. I have well over 100 videos on 3Speak across 3 accounts. I have since learned to drop the other 2 and just run it all through one. Why spread my stuff all over and expect some random user that just finds one and automatically know about the others. If people want find out everything I do I point them to my domain name which is a link site hosted on IPFS. It has the links to all the stuff I produce and there they can click on what interests them.
So the question you need to ask yourself is what do you want to get out of being on Hive? Do you want engangment and create and cultivate relationships with other real humans? Or perhaps just create a little content and earn some crypto coin for it? Or Do you want to be a mega super star social media influencer have millions of followers that drool over everything you say all while walking on pin and needles hopng to not piss off the YouTube/Twitter/Fuckbook gate keepers and not be banned?I
The first two options you are in the right place. Just try a different approach and switch up your tatics.
The third option? Yeah this aint the place for that. Many of us are here for the Freedom. Some are here for the crypto coin. But we all share the common interest of Free Speech.
So if you stay be patient, vigilant and consistent. If you leave good luck.
My only regret is that I didnt know about you sooner.
The issue goes beyond threespeak but yeah 1000s of views on a video for my farming content there and way more engagement. I think there is issues with Hive currently beyond threespeak.
I think it is time for myself to realign with reality. The reality is that Hive is not a healthy platform to express one's self or to invest into. I appreciate threespeak but eh just the views are lackluster and I brought up how odysee is not decentralized to a person involved with it and yeah it seems that they are with how the content is hosted in a p2p fashion. Will be cool to see spknetwork fully realized when they incorporate odysee and bitchute like they planned on. As it is Spknetwork and peerplays is WAY behind.
3Speak is already just as decentralized as Odeyesee. Odeysee is not true decentralized because they are eun by a company and can delete your account.
But if you leave Hive your account will always be here. It cannot be deleted.
We will be here that's your decision.
3speak is a company.
LBRY has thousands of miners all around the world - Hive has less than 100.
Yes it is. But 3Speak is not Hive either.
LBRY has all those miners and still LBRY Inc is a company who owns the largest share of the LBC.
3Speak the company and website is merely a front end to Hive. You can view 3Speak videos on other places than 3Speak.
LBRY your choice is desktop app, mobile app or Odeyesee. When the focus of the company is to drive users to their Odeyesee website IMO that's not supporting a decentralized web.
But LBC isn't proof-of-stake, so that doesn't give them the same kind of power it does on Hive.
There's also an audio-centric dApp and an ebook-centric dApp being developed by third party teams.
As far as proof of stake, that part of the blockchains I dont understand. I understand about how a blockchain works and why. But all theses weird accronyms -dpos, defi, pos, etc. Just makes my eyes glaze over. I dont understand that stuff. I dont want to understand it at that level. Super low level. I just want to know that my account cant be deleted.
I didnt know about the third party apps. Thats nice that someone is finally doing something other than LBRY. They've tried to get people do that for several years now.
That was alway one thing I liked about the lbry protocol. It can do video, audio and text files. I just didnt like that it all seemed to come from one place. I can rmember when LBRY was just a fresh beta app available only in the Ubunut repos. I tried it and it would barely work cause there was barely 50-100 users back then. I didnt check it out seriously for a couple of years and they had the first release of the Anderoid app.
Dont get me wrong on all this. I wasnt hating on the protocol or LBC. I just dont like a few things about them as a company. The tech is fricking awesome though.
I wanted to share farming content on Hive but got ignored. Wanted share Korean natural farming content on Hive but ignored. I wanted to start making deepdive content but got ignored. I started sharing curation posts and started getting some traction but still that was a one way street.
I am in a weird place in life where freedom of speech and standing up for others got me burned but still feel inclined to do it. So clearly freedom of speech is not something Hive is for much less this community in Boise Idaho.
Seems I need to just step away from Hive and expectations. I want to stand up for people and freedom. Seems a great opportunity exists for me to do that in Portland. There seems to be freedom cells and a Rainbow family presence I can align with there. My kids are there, My kids mother kidnapped them and took them there and had law enforcement and family courts laugh about it as well as people on Hive. Also the Soil Food Web organization is there. So it seems I am in transition and have to go there. It feels right.
Being ignored is not what you are equating it to be. Being ignored is that there is no audience for that content.
Again it is your decision. I'm just stating that what you are saying isn't true. You just have to fi d your audience. It may not be here on Hive.
Free Speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't guarantee that people will listen.
Ok so no audience for gardening or farming content for Hive. So yeah what then.
Change to something else you are passionate about. Just keep going until you find something that connects.
Or go look for somewhere else.
Or try to bring that audience here with you.
Creating content isn't easy. Its hard as hell. Finding an audience is harder. Making Content for that specific audience is even harder.
There's literally no place on earth someone can just walk in and say "I'm here! Heres my content, Like me!".
I have mad respect for a lot of people on Hive because of how long they've been here already. They aren't coders or crypto influencers or anything like that. They blog, podcast vlog, draw, make music, etc. But you know what? They found an audience eventually. They stuck it out through thick and thin. They didn't get mad and run. The buckled down and worked harder on their content.
Again you have to answer your own question. Why are you on Hive?
Hive is not a get rich scheme. It's not a way to make money off of cat videos. It's not just so someone can say stuff to offend people in every possible way.
Hive isn't a place that guarantees creators will get paid. Its not a market place.
It's a tool for people to use.
Hive is just a tool. What you choose to do with it is up to you.
So do you use a hammer to screw in a light bulb?
If it pisses me off and won't go in I will. Lol!
What pisses you off? Having a job and getting paid to do work? Yeah I am for sustainable systems where money is not involved but even in communes you work for your keep for shelter and food.
I can dude. Do you think that the Hundreds of people who follow @dynamicsteemians curation trail are fake accounts? I have been there and done that with Hive and yeah creating Video content is not my strong point and trying to evolve that now. So go ahead and go in and tell me about how I should do something different. What do you think I should do next? I must say thank you. You have woken up me up. I am ready to kick ass and for other people nontheless. I was just given a 50 slide work up on an entire sustainable eco village project I am about to make giant introduceyourself post for just like I did recently for @earthpurse777. Just this time I am trying to use threespeak since markdown discouraged the last person I onboarded.
And you know what I have invested 10g into Hive. Really more if you look at what I transferred from Steem to Hive. I have used Hive for LOTS of different things and never looked at it as a get rich quick scheme. You should probably look into my HSBI shares, my Hive power delegation purchase history with dynamicsteemians, my spt investments, sps investments, SPL card investments as well as the thousands of different posts that I made in the past. You are aimlessly saying things without doing any research.
And you're flaunting your portfolio and stating that you've dropped 10g on it because thats supposed to make me feel small? Or am I supposed to be impressed by it? I dont care about portfolios and I dont care about the money. I'm here because I dont like to censor what I say.
I didnt do "research" on you because
2 Your rep is at 67 which is similar to mine so I took it as you had been on here roughly the same amount of time. I've found that people typically people here since the steemit days are usually in the 70+ range of rep.
3 I dont "do research" on people. I actually talk with them and get to know them as a person before I decide whether its worth putting effort into cultivating a friendship with them. I can and usually do end up being everybodys friend. I had never heard of you until you popped into the 3Speak discord.
To be completely honest this conversation is becoming tiresome and somewhat disjointed. I was trying to offer help to what I thought was someone trying to reach out with questions about content creation. But it sounds more a drama filled quest. I mean you've been here since the steemit days. So you should know better than I about content creation on Hive.
So I'm done with this. If you want to seriously talk about creating content or looking for tools to create audio video feel free to hit me up. Either on Hive or Discord even if you take a break from Hive.
have a good day and good luck in Portland.
Take care.