Creating a comment rewarding culture? 🤔

_{We don’t need to teach our children what freedom is, we can just be the example!}

Simple steps 101: Let's reward each others comments and make life easier!

Had some fun playing with creative writing in the last post and it turned out ok. Didn’t let any big expectations get in the way before mashing keys and it seems to be a decent piece. I also enjoyed the process which is promising since writing still ain’t my favorite thing. Also had some very generous shares from the community, which helps me feel good about finding my voice. In turn inspiring me to focus more on quality over quantity. While clearly I'm still practicing that blog/life balance for consistency.. 🤓

Building our confidence in a future in blockchain blogging requires steady hitting that post button. Though is this really the only way to play in this game? When I chat with friends about what I'm up to, I like to give solid examples of our progress and ways they can get involved. Not only about “how much money can we make?” but also with personal growth and diversity. I'm feel confident these days answering most of their common crypto questions, now featuring experiential knowledge LOL! 🙌

What’s this blockchain thing they ask, what’s it's best use?

To exchange, educate and empower each other with various forms of value.. while not getting censored, extorted or deleted in the process! ⛔️

What do I mean when I say empower each other? ✊ I mean forming incredible friendships and connections, learning and growing, sharing and supporting. These are all priceless aspects of network effect for those of us living outside the system. Being living examples for each other to achieve a freer way to thrive. Saved and secured by our encrypted, distributed and immutable ledgers. Co-creating conscious communities and rewarding each others creativity.

What do we write about and exchange? Anything we want!

_{“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” - Charles Fuch}

So it's the daily crypto grind! 🙇 Blogging has been my focus to talk about in recent years. There's still a huge ocean between those who get it, got in early and those who still feel completely lost. This whole reward 🎁 gifting based social model seems alien to everyday folk. All they ever known is force fed ads and privacy and personal data abuse. Few are aware they've been sold out to the $ tune of billions, even fewer actually care.

All the while most our crypto-crowd is so busy BTD and HODL they still ain't shown their moms how to get a wallet. Trust I still got love but those who really need to get this are trying to eat, not lambo to the moon. The mass adoption we're all waiting for ain't gonna arrive if we all starve to death while explaining it and nowhere near achieving it.

Complicating crypto ain't sexy, we gotta simplify! Which brings me back to our blockchain based social media publishing platforms. Stop looking around, we're it! What makes social media platforms social and viral? Engagement, conversations and sharing! If we only focus on earning post rewards, we will all end up talking past each other. We must encourage more conversations even emoji comments damn it's still attention and that's what gets things moving. Especially for our newbies, what they'd love is to see their comments bumped with some rewards!

Ok the paradox is not to make it all about money.. 💰 While for most of us financial freedom was the biggest piece of the puzzle. We know it's a challenge to post quality content everyday. Many either start spamming or just give up, I've fall off more times than anyone! Perhaps if we redirect our focus to creating a more rewarding commenting culture, one that's just easier on everyone! More players being rewarded for commenting as much and if not more than creating entire posts. Will that attract more casual readers, those who at this stage may be even more valuable than creators? Imho.

Most people don't have any extra money for investing in assets and time as the premium currency is even more scarce ⏲ What they do have is perhaps a few minutes to scroll their feeds and maybe just enough to drop a comment or two before the attention evaporates! Not hating: it is what it is, we live in a insta-fast world! Let's get a trend going to reward our micro-interactions too! Be honest, to make this real for the masses it has to be quick, easy and simple.

_{Best time of day! Morning snuggles with little man and the cuddle crew! 💗💯}

To do so we gotta be inclusive no matter where in the journey users are. Sustainability is not truly sustainable until it’s freely accessible for all levels and all ages. There’s a huge role for each of us to assist by simply being who we be. Sharing our happiness, passions and successes on the blockchain is absolutely serving the whole

This wasn't what I thought I'd write about today. Though I had something in my mind about Whaleshares re-minding me of the early days of Steemit. A time before auto-assist bots and the invisible urgency to post just for posts sake. I dunno if we can get back to it or if this for-word motion will help. I value this space to share and know the comment-chains can be full of human reflections. It's in these genuine engagements that the real friendships were formed, many of which I found right here.

I feel much happier returning to this old school method. I am at heart a loyalist and like being in my circle. Before managing community groups and projects, I’m just another guy doing his best to better himself one day at a time. I still be-life in us, we just have to come together and do this.

Thanks for reading my thoughts today and I’ll gladly show my appreciation for your time in the comments below. See ya in the next post!

Keni 😄

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