Back in the day, having a blog on Wordpress or Blogger was pretty cool. There were plenty of comments and views, and we had this idea we were helping to wake up the world to psyops like 911. But these days all those old school blogs seem like dinosaurs and nobody really gives a toss.
Like many people I struggle a bit with letting go of shit, even if it is long overdue. I've been blogging and doing websites in various forms since 1998 - starting with Frontpage 98 and moving on to Blogger, Dreamweaver, and Wordpress, before discovering Steemit and Hive. So over the past 23 years I've knocked out thousands of posts and webpages.
There were times when my posts seemed fairly popular, and before the days of sites like Fakebook they actually used to get a bit of engagement. As recently as 2015 my blog was still getting up to 2000 hits a day. But then Google put paid to that by hiding it in all searches.
The internet was a new frontier in 98 and I learned a lot, and imagined we might be changing the world too. But by 2008 I could see that it was gradually turning into a cess pit of bullshit. That first 10 years of online education was enough to red pill me though, and by the time "911" took place I already had a pretty good idea what had happened, who was behind it and what the agenda was. The only thing that really freaked me out was that so few people grasped what was going on. Just like the convid plandemic now.
All along, as well as a blog, I always thought it was necessary to have a "real" website with full length pages about specific subjects.
In 2016 I set out to fully update my website but never actually finished the job. I got distracted by some site called Steemit. And for the past five years it's been on my to do list. But the truth is, I can't be arsed because nobody looks at it anymore.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a new plan: I'll give up deluding myself that I'm ever going to update all my old webpages and just start posting my updated content on a new blog site. Start fresh again.
The big difference between a page and a post is that webpages constantly need updating. Each page is expected to be current. If you have a hundred or so pages, this is just an ongoing pain in the arse, and a website is never up to date.
That is the beauty of blog posts - they are snapshots from a time and place, and there is no implied promise that they will be kept up to date.
So that is why I have decided to give up trying to have an up to date website and just go back to posting all my content on a blog.
If nobody is looking at it, why have a blog on my own server at all? The main thing for me is that on my own site I don't have to stick to anyone else's standards - I can post stuff that is too controversial for Hive, and just copy and paste anything I feel like. So it's like my personal scrapbook, but posted online.
Which brings me to my PROOF OF BRAIN EXPERIMENT
Having been around on Steemit and then on Hive since 2016 I have had plenty of experience of being a non-approved content creator who posts content that violates whale circle jerk community standards. This is my first POB post on this account and I'm curious to see if a whale free zone can work. It's safe to say I'm no fan of down voting or of sticking to the mainstream narrative.
What if I start sharing my updated blog posts on the POB front end? I thought. Well it's worth a crack, so I'll start with this one.
At the moment my new blog www.sift.co.nz is little more than a rough sketch but it's safe to say I have no shortage of content to post, and as I go, I'll also give it a tidy up.
So that it doesn't become a vast and time consuming job I'm just going to do a few updates each day, and I won't be sharing the copy and paste content, or the really verboten stuff here on Hive.
http://www.sift.co.nz
Cool. I think it is cool if you post updated versions of your old blog posts, but I wonder what measures you've taken to ensure that allegations of you copying your posts and allegations that you're not the original writer doesn't come up. You get what I mean, right? Seeing the post here and seeing something similar to it on other blogs (especially as you sad you've ran more than one websites in the past) may cause these allegations.
Measures I think you can take, you've taken one already by making this post. Another measure should be, I think, making a short 'about' on your blog that includes your Hive username. And maybe always adding at the end of your Hive posts that it is an updated version of stuff you posted a long time ago. Am I worrying too much for you? @sift666😀
Don't panic dude - you have girls to help with their life directions because they would be lost without you - remember to be SMOOTH
Hahahaha 😂😂. Fuck. Does this mean you remember reading my post about girls?
Yes, and I know all about girls, I used to be one, with huge boobs!
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@sift666/i-am-new-to-steamit
I just read that post and the comments, I'm LMAO right now 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fuck you @sift666! You're so incorrigible 😂😂
I really pity some of the people that fell for that, if I fell for that I damn near would cry.
And those comments remaining now are after most of the dumbest ones were edited or deleted - it was my finest moment on Steemit:)
Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Wordpress, there's a word I haven't heard in ages. Someone got me to sign up for wordpress because they were moving their blog over there, said in order to blog there you had to have an account. I don't think it ever went anywhere and I've long forgotten about it.
latest stats:
WordPress powers 40% of the internet in 2021, up from 35% in 2020, and a 4% rise from the year before.
Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month.
In 2016, nearly 118 billion words were published on WordPress
Nearly 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce (Wordpress)
Have a PIS ,... proof in spirit .. in the form of about 1/4th POB . ;-)
Have a pis?
ER..OK..
Stunning "Public Urination" Artwork For Sale on Fine Art
Post Mortal artworks always sell better , i wonder what took so long to release his works ,.. ? ...;-)
Stick those glasses and that beard on absolutely anything, and it would look like a twat!
Ad some cheap ass chinese made green cloth , and it looks like a power-hungry twat .
I'll check out www.sift.co.nz when there's a lull in stripchat ... I'm pretty stupid when it comes to the new things in hive.. POB )) I have seen you can post from there..and now I understand these new hive off shoots have their own coin.. Guess I should read more instead of just looking at the pictures..
POB tokens are worth more than Hive now - if you just add the tag #proofofbrain to your posts you will be earning pob tokens too, even if you never look at the front end.
This is the front end - https://www.proofofbrain.io - it works but it's slow and backward compared to Peakd - like Steemit circa 2018, so i mostly stick to Peakd
My POB tokens are worth about $1800 at the current price, so it's not like Palnet - these are actually worth getting.
#lucylin is a god on POB! https://www.proofofbrain.io/@lucylin
Yeah I use Peakd most of the time.. I didn't think I was allowed in proofofbrain..thought it was for the smart people.. #lucylin is brilliant and funny.. Like you Ian... That was a big suck-up lol
Truth is POB is pretty much open to any original content - it sounds intellectual but it's more a parallel token system without whale downvoting. New but rapidly gaining traction
Sounds to good to be true .. no Whales to make waves..
check this - on hive his posts are getting reamed - but these pob payouts are much bigger
Thanks.. I'll have to open Proof of Brain account and check it out..
Listen as long as you are here.. I still haven't opened a Bit-Coin Account.. I started to on Coinbase... they wanted me to take a picture of my Drivers License, both sides. for verification.. IS that standard for everyone? Main reason for me to have bitcoin is ..Stripchat accepts them and I can get a discount... ha ha..
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That feeling of coming up with an idea, spending hours to write and rewrite but no one even view your work or read talk more of commenting. That's really discouraging and morale killing.
When I look back at some of my old Steemit posts from 4 years ago, the engagement was vastly better than Hive now. But Hive is a much better front end. I'm hoping that adding more content can help things.