What is node bloat, for those unaware?

Gatekeeping? Guuuuuurl. You're making more money from your posting than ~90% of the people on Ecency. I just made that statistic up, but the sentiment reflects the reality. You're still killing it with

Is anyone stopping this content from being here, though? So what if someone posting a photo gets $3 instead of $5 after 7 days? It's the feeling of entitlement to the $5 that's the real problem here.

I hear that. How much things that don't matter dominate our lives

A desire to spend less time talking about the platform and more time using it... Can definitely relate!

Give me your quintessential 80s-music-as-an-artform track and I'll take a listen. I'm partial to Everybody Wants To Rule The World every once in a while, loud as fuck. Curious to hear something else though.

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Sounds excellent. It's been months, but I wanted to clarify... I wasn't saying that the idea of a drumming community is lame, it's far from that. I was being self-deprecating towards my idea of calling

It's a start. I'm excited! Got a few recordings to share. In time...

I agree. Your experience mirrors mine in a lot of ways. Patience is required. That's always been the case though, anything that's worth doing takes time. Building, cultivating value. Doesn't happen overnight.

Exactly! Completely unrelated but, did you start up that drumming community in the end?

Had to smile at plebdom It's rough out here...

Proof of patience, that's a good one. POP

No ads is absolutely the best part of it for me! I hope the people steering the front-ends have things sorted out so ad-free is sustainable in the long term. Few people believe me at first when I talk

Agree with you, but just wanted to jump in here in case you didn't know: Hive does already have it's own Amazon. Check it out. Long term plan is to become a vendor myself

What a compliment! Thank you kindly

That was a very valuable read. Thank you. It's a deep shame that that lecturer would be so ignorant. I personally am not triggered by the word feminism. I have a thing for nuance and love refining my thought,

I KNOW! Isn't it awesome!?

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