First of all, I am good, and my parent reared female Harris's hawks is also good.
I do not say that I leave this platform entirely/completely, but simply I am taking a longer break (probably months) from blogging on this platform.
Nowadays I spend very little time online, and I rather post on a platform, where the people actually care about the content. About my bird. About me.
So I continue to post somewhere else (mostly in private Facebook groups), where the people actually care about what I post.
They care about my bird, and about me too. They often ask how the things are going, how I am, if I have help. They write useful/helpful tips. And some of them even write private messages too to me. And they helpfully answer, if I ask something.
Unique content is standing out on its own on a properly working social network. Even with much less users in a group.
Hive is entirely different. Practically no one cares. Even about unique content.
They mostly comment only if we comment under their posts, and often their comment feels forced (not natural). Or when they try to get attention to their own posts (this happens mostly under the posts of people with higher amount of Hive power).
I do not know why. But this is the case. Probably the money ruins the real, genuine interaction on this platform. Money is both an advantage and a disadvantage too for this platform.
There is no point in posting on a platform, where the number of comments I receive with unique content (taming a parent reared female Harris's hawk) is mostly 0.
And earlier my 3Speak (ThreeSpeak) video views were also nearly 0. Also with unique content (two-way radioamateur contacts).
There were upvotes in both cases, but there were no real audience (with the exception of a very few posts).
Without real content consumers, there is no point, no motivation to post on a platform.
Even if I receive upvotes.
So I stop blogging on Hive for a longer period of time. Probably for months.
I started a 932 Hive Power down too.
Seeing the current Hive value ($0.28 USD), this is not much ($260.96 USD), but more than nothing.
And there is no point of having Hive Power, if I do not use the platform.
After the power down, there will be roughly 10 Hive Power in my Hive account, so it will remain usable, if I would like to use it.
And yesterday (on 2024.06.07) I withdrew $75 HBD from savings.
I will sell it, and I will use it on good things. Maybe on extending the aviary.
I will do the same with the Hive too, which is currently in the process of powering down.
In this way, at least I can write something (at least partially) positive. But this is the only (partially) positive aspect of this platform.
The money is both good and bad at the same time for this platform. Mostly it attracts greedy and selfish people. 99% content creators, 1% content consumers.
The end result is a high number of posts without any comments (in general). And the automatic upvotes is only boosting this. Many people upvote others automatically, without even actually checking their content.
So this is how one thing can be an advantage and a disadvantage too at the same time for a platform.
But there are much more important things in this world than money.
True love and true enjoyment in life. This is the most important thing in life. And this is why nowadays I spend very little time online. I spend most of the time with what I truly love and enjoy. With my parent reared female Harris's hawk.
By the way, I take a break only from the blogging on Hive.
Maybe I will still use the microblogging services from time to time (Ecency Waves, LeoThreads) for myself. Mostly as a backup for my photos.
Around 10 Hive Power will be enough to do that.
Probably no one will actually care about this post, but I still write the usual greetings at the end of my blog post.
And maybe I will return to blogging on this platform months later, if/when I will somehow have motivation.
Have nice day and have a nice weekend.
All the best. Greetings and much love from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.