Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): i tried....💽
With Catalog shutting down the the ability to upload or collect today, before fully sunsetting next week, I worked to finalize some albums to document on that special contact before it happened. Unfortunately, I've been hitting the same bug / error message for the past 24 hrs., and I think I'm out of time.
I began posting this at 5:30am, it's now 7:15am.... That's how long i've been writing novels into this description box... I've decided to copy and paste all i wrote into a private notepad instead.
I feel like the way I approached this technology from the jump, using extremely out of character long form transparent and vulnerable descriptions and backstories, combined with how the entire purpose of using this tech for me personally was to escape the attention economy of disposable content and endless self marketing... Being super content and filled with purpose documenting / minting on platforms with no noise or vanity metrics, not focusing on the transactional side of what likely was the main feature to that pulled in artists in the first place.. Also combining that with how intentional and consistent I was trying to be the change i'd wish to see, and putting so much into collecting and making tiny ripples...
Of course i'm more likely to be deeply saddened than most, while also having more difficulty trusting and believing in things moving forward, everything that made me prioritize fully pivoting all available time and energy into a place where my existing audience and community of creators were not a part of was time and energy spent separated from decades of consistency and resonance. Everything from the creator / collector side I cared about just doesn't exist, beyond the features and functions and discoverability.. That collective spirit of being in something together with a common goal of better world, that energy also vanished over night, the hundreds of artists and collectors in twitter spaces nightly having meaningful dialog feels like the Roanoke Colony.
Combine all of the above with the bad pivots and changes of web2 and legacy industry that drove most of here, or at the very least were objectively felt and noticed enough for the Platforms to use those pain points as mission statements aimed at artists....
Well the digital landscape and experience of 2016-2023 look like a utopia to the current form of virtually connecting to devices to connect to humans...
there's obviously more context but I don't think any of it matters to anyone but me haha.
It's now 7:55am.
Do I move all this to the draft note pad, or just hit send... ::::ERC-20 coin flip::::
Send it is.
