RE: Does Anyone Actually READ My (Your) Stuff?
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Sometimes it is difficult to understand why I'm actually still publishing. And this morning I was also thinking in line with the amazing possibility to share ones own thoughts almost instantly with all those who are interested.
Where magazines, TV, so called 'news' sites and so on have a one sided message. It's not even communication.
And when blogging on a blockchain became a thing there was this excitement, now we could really publish and interact. While making some sort of (extra) income. Those who are into that will come. The ones that just want to take in what is being brought to them, will stay away.
When I started at Steem, early 2016, it was small and I could read quite a few publications. Even interacting with the publisher. These days I find it more of a challenge to read more than one. Without doing some fast 'essence reading'.
To get past this I'm rethinking more towards Steem. Hive is a big city, even in the small town where I live I do not know all 18K inhabitants. Most I know from passing them by I say hi. Difficult to stand still and listen to a story they have to tell. And then interact.
That's impossible, or highly improbable, as I see it. Therefore I try to find publishers in line with the small scale Steem experience I had. It won't keep me from upvoting other publications or projects I think are awesome.
Yet my inner circle will have to be small. Because I know it takes time for me to respond. And interacting fast is not my thing.
Wish you a great 2025, with more interaction on your publications.
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I found Steem accidentally back in January 2017, and what made me excited about it was (A) that it seemed like a return to the format of "social blogging" I so enjoyed during my earliest days on the web, and (B) this whole idea of a decentralized blockchain meaning that when I publish something here, there's actually a real chance that it won't just be gone next week, or next year... because "some company" has decided to put up a paywall or — worse still — simply decided to close down.
When I started, it was after having lost a substantial body of work multiple times at other venues.
Maybe I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that I still live in the world where what you have to offer should at least have a bit of an effort towards being "evergreen" not just something to laugh at this week, and irrelevant next week.
I suppose my "Inner circle" on Hive is pretty small, too... and occasionally I find a new creator to add, and occasionally somebody I've been following for a long time suddenly disappears permanently off the radar. What they mostly have in common, though, seems to be that they care about the social aspects of being part of this community, not just the latest gimmick to make a few more cents.
I liked Asher's Engagement Leagues because they served — in a sense — almost like "a village inside a town," in which the villagers mostly had a common interest in the social aspects, and truly interesting publications. Ironically, it was a form of "gamification," but also a system you really couldn't game.
Wishing you a great 2025, as well!
Data being immutable is also an aspect that I like about Blockchain technology in general. And it also adds to the overall freedom of expression experience on a platform like Hive.
These days the attention span often seems a microblog long. Very tough to make it into the everlasting league. Even if there's a proven authority within a certain realm. A sign of the times perhaps. Maybe with automation taking over a lot of fields it also creates a hunger for 'new' and 'fast'.
Floods of information, or just data input. With the internet everyone can know about someone on the other side of Earth having an itch. It's trending, one needs to have watched it. Ow, that yesterminutes, now there's this monkey that...
Guess I'm a dinosaur too. Although I think this jiffy attention span won't last. There are a lot of Smombies (I heard it yesterday it's Smart Mobile and Zombie combined) everywhere. Apparently they seem to live in an alternate augmented reality. But it's hard for me to see a fruitful future where this behaviour becomes dominant. Otherwise the homo-sapiens species is doomed to extinct.
Guess I'm a Grumpy Man also...
Yet, in another direction there's movement also. And people will find each other there. In this huge sea of zeros and ones individuals do want to connect in a more meaningful way that lasts a bit longer than a jiffy. And within this I know there's a limit to what I can take in. Narrowing down what I want to be a part of.
Somehow I think that it will balance itself out again. Where meaningful interaction will become more important.
Or I'm just becoming more conservative the older I get.
"Smombies."
I like that!
I think these trends often work like the swing of a pendulum... something is "new and exciting" so everyone flocks to it, but gradually they discover that there are sometimes costs associated with the shiny new thing.
People worry a lot about AI, but I have a feeling that once the newness wears off, AI is going to head in a more pragmatic direction.
I remember seeing a comment in someone's blog to the effect of "Now we have AI that can write my blog and do my artwork for me... giving me extra time to do the dishes. Why isn't AI doing my dishes, so I can have more time to write my blog and paint my art?"
I guess we will just have to wait and see...
If the AI thing is taken to the absurd then AI will blog, and other AI will read and reply. While they make audio, images and video.
"Let my AI get back to your AI on this."
Being called 'agents' they will be like worker bees in the world wide web. In that scenario taking up brushes and starting to paint in real life will be appreciated.
It still can go a lot of ways. Hopefully not the sinister path leading to a dystopian nightmare.
The shiny thing will wear off over time, I do think so too. Already NFTs are flooding the market with AI created content. At some point it gets overwhelming and repetitive, to some also known as boring.
The pragmatic utility will stay. It could be helpful, like smart tools in and around the house. There's a lot of things that might become handy.
And I had fun creating images with some AI tools. In a fantasy way. Which can be entertaining.
Somehow I hope it will be distinguishable if a Computer Intelligence being created something or a homo-sapiens.
In the meantime we keep interacting on platforms like these and in real life on earth.
I posted your comment over on Twitter along with this the quoted response, you can see it at - https://x.com/GentlemanRural/status/1873808419427086819
Thank you, I appreciate it.
At some point it will all start to look absurd. Where an AI entity clones a homo-sapiens and becomes a substantive computer intelligence agent. Behaving as the digitally cloned homo-sapien being, highly probable, would do.
It would really worry me if such an entity could enter our analogue reality, using a robotic vesle. A point where digital synth copies of us enter our own realm does seem a possibility.
Somehow it still seems like a kind of Science Fiction. But I cannot state it as being highly unlikely to become real within a few years already.