I got excited when I logged in today as I was trying to change my reward default to 100% powerup for my post and comments. I found this particular option that really intrigued me.

Enjoy the content on the Hive Blockchain without post reward.

I enabled that option and everything felt like a shiny brand new place. You don’t really see people with rewards. It’s pure content with only likes and comments sections to see.

Perhaps it’s the novelty that really intrigued me but I feel like there’s some extra noises removed from my brain. It reminds me of my ultimate reason when I first found this place and trying to grow as a writer.

A lot has happened, life happened and I’ve been here talking about things that really mattered to me. In fact, this opened up new excitement to me. As much as I have always relied on pure content as a curator, there are moments in my life when as a content creator, I tried to appeal to the masses, to content that people like rather than what I like. Now though, I don’t do that anymore, I’ve found myself once again, and write just as I please.

I love writing, I enjoy writing and reading, that’s all there is to it.

To be honest, I can’t point out the exact feeling, maybe it's a comparison? But I don’t know, I am just happy to have that feature enabled and I can explore the chain more freely. For someone who tends to be quite competitive, that piece of reward on the left side has quite been fueling that side. It shouldn’t be that way because again, I love writing, I enjoy writing and reading, that’s all there is to it, to think that I’ve been trying to make all this into some type of competitive thing, well honestly.. I don’t think I did bad either. Again, all that wouldn’t be possible without everyone supporting me here, So, thank you to everyone who has supported my writing journey here.

There has to be some magic involved as I don’t know it’s quite a new feeling to just see the chain as pure content. It’s not that before there wasn't pure content around here, I just feel as if with the extra reward shown, sometimes I couldn’t feel the authenticity of the writing and some people’s pressure to churn out writing as if there’s no tomorrow. I have to admit, during one of my years here, I got caught up into that and got burned out.

Sometimes I read template-ish content that feels like it was just a mediocre latte. Where’s the uniqueness in there when you’re just following someone's template?

Let me ramble a little bit…

I am a lowkey analyst and a few people have seen some of my silly data and research. I can comb through the chain and learn how the game works. It’s all time consuming for sure and sometimes I don’t even follow my own result of the data I gathered but one thing for sure, everything can be analyzed 😂

All these felt superficial to me since honestly, this is a space where you can be your best authentic self and maybe that’s why, I love that option on peakd where I don’t have to see how much a content worth based on people’s judgement but rather do I want to spend a fraction of my time reading that piece certainly without all the extra noises around. Just as I said, pure content.

In the past, when I am judging a content to be curated , it’s almost as if that extra noise is there. It gets challenging for sure to objectively determine which has to be curated and which should not. But without that extra noise, that gets easier. Why didn't we do this 4 years ago? 😆

By the way, I am hosting a book chat every Saturday at 4:30 PM UTC. Come hang out on Hive Book Club Server to see me hosting it. You don’t need to have a book ready, we can talk about books, coffee and everything in between.

See you there!