RE: 🗨️ NO Structure, NO Sense, NO Rambling, NO Silence, NO Thinking, NO
I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin. Cancer is a mean and nasty thing that doesn't care whether you're young or old; rich or poor. Having lost younger relatives to this awful thing, I know how devastating it is... and we end up sometimes questionling life, itself. My condolences.
Yes, time does fly... and — as the years pass — it seems to fly ever faster. Spend as much time with that young Gorilla as you possibly can! Late this spring, we welcomed grandbabies no. four and five (which is definitely cool, but has made me a less frequent visitor here) but it also made us pause to reflect on the fact the we have no idea how our oldest grandchild got to be almost turning 16!
Steemit. Well. In the "very old days" I would sometimes spend an hour or two just refreshing the "recent" posts feed, over and over, looking for interesting new content and users. These days there just seems to be so much garbage coming through... mostly in the form of
- Automated rewards farming.
- Pure rubbish.
- Thinly veiled schemes and scams.
- Meaningless twitter/X reposts/announcements... what fripp is that "Tip Tag" thing?
Once in a great while, a gold nugget or two shows up, but it's a lot of work to find it... and that leaves me mostly engaging with "the same old crowd."
Meanwhile, simply being alive and living in the States feels increasingly like a daily slide back towards the Dark Ages... not very positive.
But glad to see signs of life from you!
Wow, that's very cool. They must keep you extremely busy!
As you probably know, I've created a couple of tools which helps to filter out specific tags, users, etc. and even with this, it's extremely difficult. And still extremely time consuming. If Steemit looked like this when I signed up, it's highly unlikely that I would have persevered, which is a shame because there are some good people... there's just so little being done about the bad to disincentivise people from following the same path. I really don't enjoy feeling this negative about the direction things are taking.
I've not checked, but I strongly suspect the Newcomers' Community's suddenly become more active now that it has got steemcurator support. Which of course, equates to more scam accounts being created because there's no way these newbies could possibly know this. I'm assuming of course!
I don't really understand the TipTag thing, but its creator has applied for DAO funding to expand it further so he obviously believes there's an underlying benefit to STEEM by doing it... (?)
Nothing surprises me about what happens in the States any more. I was amazed when Trump got elected the first time around and after all of the criminal proceedings, getting a second term says more about the state of American politics than anything else!
Thank you! I still drop into your blog when I can 🙂