Apparently, and my gratitude goes out to for alerting me to this, today is a big Hive birthday for me.
Three years ago today, I received the email that started my life in the virtual world of blockchains and blogging.
My first action was to resteem something I immediately regretted reblogging, an action that, I discovered too late, could not be undone. What would people think of me?! Had I made a bad impression on my very first day?
Fortunately, it seemed no one had noticed.
At this point, I had no idea what I was doing. I held no cryptocurrency and had only a vague idea of what that was. I had never blogged or read others blogs. My experience on social media was limited to FB, which I very much wanted to leave.
I spent the next few days casting my worthless upvote on posts that were months old, and spent hours composing comments for those posts too, running out of the mysterious RC before lunch.
No response.
Not to be deterred, I started posting poetry. You can imagine the reception poetry from a nobody got - NADA. I then posted some of my very best poetic stuff!
Still NADA.
Trying to find both my voice and a niche, I started a series of Advice by Haiku For Newbies (abandoned after #8, which earned 2 cents), the first of which was:
in the beginning
I placed my most treasured work
and no one noticed
Salvation came from , which adopted me, and my fortunes took a big turn for the better. I wrote an effusively thankful post to that community (before communities were even a thing) for its support in my early days. Here is an excerpt from that post
This week of my adoption has been quite a rush! I saw my followers swell from ten or so to over forty! My funds soared from under 20 cents to over $1.20! I wrote at least five minutes of fiction every single day! As small as these may seem to many, to me they were unimaginable just one short week ago.
Look at me now! Three years old, and closing in on dolphin! Even follows me, as the 143rd account he has followed, an auspicious number!
I have hit the big time!
Thank you to everyone who has helped me get here. I love you all.
Enough about me - I have packing to do!!
Thank you for reading my birthday post.