Today I announce part of what I'm building.
For tech to be great it needs to feel. This is where hive (and most of web3) get's it wrong.
If you look at all that great platforms they make us feel something.
We go on Facebook because of the feeling that it keeps us connected with our friends, we use X because it's like a journey into discovering new trends and interesting people, and we go on YouTube because it weaves art in movie form.
All have depth and feeling to it.
We, at hive, and all of web3 have a chance to build something that combines feeling with decentralization, where everyone gets a piece of the pie -- and curation not only turns exciting but rewarding.
We have lost the soul of what makes art great, and what connects us to it.
This is no-one's fault mind you, it is the way everything is set up. We follow the money, so our emotional investment is in the money.
I've found myself sad when my post only hits 3 bucks; I can catch myself going -- I'm better than this, more people should recognise me! Even if I know it in my heart that if I want more people to come to my blog then I have to make myself known.
So consider me making myself known, truly known today.
What if, we posted on hive, not for the rewards, but for the act of posting something that you wanted to?
It's 4am, I want to go to bed, but I was excited to make this post; not because of the money it could potentially make, but the signal it gives to others.
The ready,
The waiting,
The wanting.
It gives them permission to do the same.
Why care if a post gets $1 or $100? That shouldn't be why we create art; we should do it because we love doing it.
When we focus on hive price, or post rewards then it ties us to a stupidly unimportant part of what makes art great -- the feeling of being heard, being seen.
We tie ourselves to charts and data outwith our control and then our mood swings depending on price and action.
Through the excitement of earning rewards for our work we have become slaves to the dopamine of the crypto world, and it shouldn't be like that.
Oftentimes we forget how valuable art really is.
If you think art isn't an integral chess piece in the crypto world then you'd be gravely mistaken. If you look at every crypto pump that's ever existed it's borne out of art -- through advertisements, marketing, music, song, dance -- you name it; it all motivates people to buy things.
Yet we have lost that in web3 because we seem to think all that matters is the price of a token.
In a way there's still a long way to go until we're like WordPress where people spend hundreds, if not thousands just to blog for free.
And yet we get upset when we make $1?
This changes today.
Not all over hive -- but in my domain.
I will be infusing art and soul into the tech on chain and offchain.
And we will build slowly, for the future.
We start first with a community.
It will be a community of like-minded creators from hive, and some not from hive.
People will be able to comment in it, but the authors will be carefully selected over time.
As we grow, so will the authors and the commenters -- through garden and soul.
We build out into the stars.
This is my promise to you.