I knew it! It really feels healing when I put my bare feet in front of the burning fire in the fireplace :)))
When I was a kid, I recall during the winters we have a few minutes in swimsuits in a room at school spinning ourselves in front of an strong UV lamp and wwearing protective glasses. I am not sure how healthful that was, as the smell in the room... as meat is cooking, lol. Definitely right though, we need Vit.D epsecially in the freezing winter days!
Thanks so much for featuring my photo and setting me as a benefactor, I wasn't aware someone still does that! :) I love the person that arm belongs to, but please don't tell them :)))
Have a great day!
It's wonderful in those long, cold winters! I love the fireplace at that time of year, there's just something so therapeutic about it.
I'm probably the only person still doing this. This image came to mind when I was thinking of something for the post. I'm glad you're still on here regularly to receive the beneficiary. A lot of the contributors aren't active any more. I'm guessing most will be using the AI image generator on Peakd now rather than from other creators here.
It definitely has a strong therapeutic effect, especially with a glass of red wine in the rocking chair :) Ideal for self-reflection and the future and the myriad of personal mistakes I've made :)))
Thank you for still doing this, I agree, AI is killing this quickly, as it almost killed one of my web2 incomes - stock photography through agencies. I really appreciate this!
Live on HIVE is getting even more difficult with each new day and I have this side to share what I really think, from time to time, and people in general don't like anything apart from the sugar-candied positivism, so for regular bloggers like myself... well, we'll see how much more I'll keep being active here.
Also, something very weird I've been noticing lately, if you take a glance at my latest posts, when I spend hours selecting photos and writing and sharing something interesting, I get less upvotes than posts, where I just share few of my travel photos. It's like the community is trying to tell me "don't waste your time here". Rewards have so little to do with content...
Have a great weekend! :)
At the moment here it is too warm to use the fireplace but next week the forecast says negative temperatures so I'll be preparing it :)
I notice the same. I get much more interaction on my shorter ones where I'm just sharing my thoughts as well. I've been writing up some longer posts on biology, health and chronic disease prevention from my own research that I thought I'd share, but I think if it's not of interest to the majority then they don't want to be spending that much time reading it, despite the fact that I think it's useful.
The same probably goes across all social platforms. I'm often surprised at what gets more attention on Instagram from my posts and my daughter pointed out that while some things might be easy to do for me, they look more showy to others. The showy bit also needs to be at the start of the video. 😉
There's also luck of the draw as to which accounts find your post and vote on it here, I suppose.
The paradox is at the same time, it seems there are many auto-voting accounts that just calculate word count and place a vote based on that. Hence there are so many who copy/paste and in the last months, use AI to create longer texts, Then in terms more and more of us see this is generated, and less and less read.
I hope that trend from the last few years to blindly upvote longer posts is abandoned for the sake of original and quality content. Before it is too late ;)
You're right, capturing attention seems to be a problem of all social networks.
There were news here, at least two separate cases in the last half of an year where teenagers get electrocuted for climbing on trains trying to make unique selfies.
I wasn't aware of autovoters for higher word count. I guess it's bound to be abused if people know. Sadly some curators recently found someone using some AI generated content who used to (and still does) use original content. A good writer too, so I was wondering why they'd turn to that. Hive certainly brings slightly different aspects which mean content isn't organically lifted in the same way as other social media content.
It's concerning what lengths people will go to for attention. Although soon they won't even need to as AI generated video is improving at a phenomenal rate.
Oh, they do. I even took the liberty of commenting on one of those who states that, in a friendly-banter-ish style, as they even mentioned the length of the text under which the post is considered "shit".
It was an interesting "conversation" and I don't get any vote by that user since :) A bit expected and only confirms my observation that any non-sugar-coated action isn't appreciated here.
Oh, something even more entertaining - long ago I wrote a post about commenting on Hive as I am not a native English speaker but I write my posts usually in English, that's both learning and also, Bulgarian isn't broadly spoken, but I often get comments in Spanish. I asked in a post why people comment in Spanish when the post is only in English, and my Spanish knowledge is basic. Since that post, I don't get any appreciator vote anymore. Speaking of energies, I like that, to be honest :))) If something like this could "flip" their curators, I don't want that attention.
Here, attention usually equals rewards, so shiny AI pictures, videos, texts... even more understandable.
I think people will use more and more AI, they have been since day one here and any honest content creators will find a better use of their time ;) The community is sending mixed signals, many AI features already embedded in some of the frontends, it's a bit confusing, isn't it ;)))
Call me old, but I don't use AI to create content :)))
I find it useful for research, and sometimes solving some RL issues. I believe its best use-cases are for research and development.
I was trying to remember what your native language was. I know one of the other photographers was Finnish and couldn't remember if that was you. You only have slight tells which show English isn't your first language, but that's potentially a good thing because you can't be accused of using AI. 😉 Even the AI checking tools often give false positives.
My most recent post was in a Spanish community, which might explain why I got an appreciator vote on it. 😆 I think at least one of the curators for them is Spanish and it's becoming quite a large language group on here. I have to admit that I'm glad they have appreciator because at one point the had next to no support from any big accounts, but I understand your point as well. I wouldn't comment in a different language to what the post was written in. When it has two languages and one is English I admit I can be a bit lazy if I'm rushed and just comment in English, though.
If you're old then I must be too. 😆 I'd prefer to be using old fashioned images and thanking the people who took the time to create them if I don't have my own. I feel like we're losing touch with real people and the supportive nature of community. I haven't even used AI for research. I still do that the old fashioned way too.
I had a quick look at the AI image creation on peakd (yes, mixed messages for sure) and you need to pay .05 Hive to even generate an image. Not hugely expensive, but what if you don't get quite what you're wanting?