Beautiful post, Christopher! Thank you so much for your dedication to shining you own special light as you do. I am reminded of the following I wrote many years ago:
I will never forget the spirit of joy I saw in the eyes of the poorest man I have ever seen in a wheelchair with no legs going from car to car at a stop light in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, giving everyone a high 5 and a blast of happiness that I had never known before. That was my first trip outside of the United States in my early 20's and marked a major turning point in my life that opened my eyes to the amazing world of discovery and adventure that we have been given the opportunity to explore and learn so much from. I truly hope that you, the readers of this site, can close your eyes and imagine what a deep lesson I learned from that man of just how much of a difference the simple choice we each have of appreciating life can make. I thought to myself, if a man living in such absolute poverty who doesn't even have any legs can be so ecstatically happy, why can't you and I? Since then I have seen far more smiles on the faces of the poorest of the poor in the world than those of us in the so called "civilized world" have.
Many blessings
Thanks for sharing that experience. I think you should make a post of it. But it's true isn't it? I've been miserable most of my life because I was not a powerful dynamo of a businessman making millions. That would have been exactly contrary to what I needed this lifetime. Now I am so, so grateful for the simplest things. My bedroom, the field behind the house, that I can walk every day in nature, that my kids love me. And most importantly, that from a life of despair came the miracle of love. I can love. I can't tell you how profound that is for me. Many blessings.
That was actually in one of my earlier posts which seemed to first attract one of the steem bots and then steemcleaners to punish me for copying it from my own site, even though I had a link to my site in the post...
That's beautiful, though, Christopher. That's where the real priceless millions are at. Many Blessings to you too, my friend, for an awesome weekend.
You are making a remarkable recovery. I really admire and respect that. Doubt I would have done it... but perhaps.
Chores to do today. Got to get the swamp cooler going. Supposed to be in the 90's this coming week.
I just follow my passion here mostly. Not many posts the last month or two.
I spend most of my social media time on Minds with far more success than Steemit. You are one of maybe 2 friends left here who still hasn't setup shop over there too. You make crypto, not limited like steemit, no whales, far better visibility. One of the few areas steemit wins out is in the html markup offered here in posts/comments. I've gotten 3 times the subscribers and followers on steemit in half the time with over 136,000 views. If nothing else Steemians can simply post a link to their steemit posts, in part because steemit posts look better on Minds than Steemit (LOL), can get more visibility than on steemit and some steemians on Minds see, click over to upvote and comment on steemit as well. Of course you have to network, subscribe, like (no limits) remind (like resteem) and comment and doing so you get a share of the daily rewards. I even make crypto on the days I don't log on. Many Blessings
I took a look briefly, but it seemed to me it was more like Facebook. Lots of memes and pictures with quotes. You know that kind of stuff. I didn't really see any posts like what we have here. Writing. Did I miss something? Sounds like it.
I must confess, I am not interested in another Facebook kind of thing.
So illuminate my mind...from your comment it sounds like there are deeper posts over there. Whats the standard? Appreciate your help on this.
Hi Christopher, Yeah, Minds is a real social media platform much like facebook and twitter, but where free speech and privacy still reign fairly well. Steemit really doesn't have either (especially privacy) and isn't that much of a social network per se, but more a blog with very little visibility, because of all it's inherent flaws and bots to try and compensate. There is a blog section on Minds, but it, like Facebook and twitter, is where people often post their blog links from there or other sites to in order to drive traffic.As you say, it also is mostly, pics, quotes, videos, all kinds of stuff. etc., because, simply put, that's what reaches the most masses. In half the time as here I've gotten in far more deeper conversations and made more active and engaging friends there than here largely because of the visibility.
There are a lot of people who are on both and post their steemit links, where the steemit graphics actually look better, amazing enough, to both get paid credit on Minds, if you network correctly to build a following who like and pass it on, as well as drive more traffic to steemit. Lots of people do that. I know many people who tried to join steemit on Minds, but steemit hasn't been allowing new members on the last few months at least as of several weeks ago, because of all the fake accounts and bot accounts to game the system.
I can tell you I make many times more there than on steemit. It now seems fairly easy to make $10-15 a day ($300-450/month) just sharing, networking, subscribing, liking, reminding (like resteeming) and commenting a few hours a day just like any other social network and the mainnet for rewards still hasn't gone totally live. In fact there are days I haven't been able to go on and still made something, because of my subscribers still liking and reminding. Plus, they have an active referral program too. So it makes it easier to tell people about. That's not to say Minds is anywhere near perfect, but they are the best one I know of with the most pros at the time.
Hmnn... so what is your name or tag over there? I'll have to come check it out. And I'm assuming they use a cryptocurrency. What is it? Is it redeemable in $$? How long have you been in MInds? Does one develop "communities" like here? How many people are over there? Is it a blockchain platform too?
And what of EOS? Will they have a system like Steemit that they either promote or facilitate?