Holding a voice event, someone asked: From time to time, I wonder if I should write in Matters

Growth is something that I have always attached great importance to. How do I know that I am growing? From oneself, but also from others. There are so many platforms and so many things to play in the world, if a group of people are destined to meet, write, and communicate in one place, it must be fate. A Town Hall Meeting was held on Thursday night. @颖欣and I had a camera shot, which is something we don’t often do. @东嘉豆also briefly shot the camera in order to express her greetings, and we had a chat hello. When running a community online, you will still be very happy when you see each other's faces. Hearing the other party's voice is the same. Hearing the voice of @Lola @泡浴的阳@Sunline @Robert in the voice activity, there will still be an inexplicable joy. I have been reading the text all the time, and I finally hear you at this moment.

The sharing meeting was originally to discuss the newly launched anthology function (commercial time), but ever since someone said, "I don't really understand what Matters is doing", "From time to time I wonder whether I should write in Matters, and the people I know are no longer there." , "It's okay to think about whether you will stop doing it" (to the effect), "After the currency price falls, there is no money to write it down", there is no recording of the sharing session, but it is only two and a half hours away from the end, and the memory is still fresh . After these thoughts and questions were raised, we gradually did not talk about the anthology function in depth, and talked about everyone's feelings. Some people mentioned that "clapping your hands does not necessarily mean that someone will read it", "my article is just that no one reads it", so that you can calmly understand what you and the other party think when you speak out directly.

As the host of the show, I am not embarrassed. There must be different ideas. A community is like this. It is a respectable place to directly raise opposing opinions, and there is no need to speak out. Instead of answering these questions, I think of another point: Creation is a magical thing. Records will change with the accumulation of years. When I re-read past articles after a few years, the sentences and punctuation are the same, but they must be will look different. Such things have been happening over time, words and feelings are carried on the platform, some people have read your articles before, and now some people have read your articles; and life and life other than creation also have their own sadness, sadness, thinking What are you doing, what will you think about five years from now, what is the difference between the person you wrote in those days and the person you are today? Can I still be the same as before, or is the current me cuter? This is from creation to growth. A platform is an environment, an ecology, and a container for recording evolution. Whether it is about words, yourself, or the place of creation, as a creator, you must have many different feelings. I worked so hard to write, why does no one seem to read it? Do I write for someone to read or to walk into myself? I have been creating, is there any mission I want to achieve? Will someone be infected by me? Or don't think too much, just do what you believe in and like? The platforms and people I am familiar with are gone, and they are not as good as before. Where are my past and memories scattered? Are they still there? Will there be a time when there was a lot of excitement and many friends? What went wrong?

I think, outside the general environment, I have been trying to find such an interactive and symbiotic relationship. If I want to really answer the questions raised by users, I think that the decentralized storage of Matters has its role and aims to change "After a large company or a large platform closes the site, the article disappears overnight", "The article can be registered with ISCN so that it has its own certification, and the ownership is its own", "Storing in different nodes is a connected network. It is no longer surrounded by the capital walls of various companies", "is trying to experiment with a feasible social protocol in a decentralized world", these abstract ideas are some basics, but you will hear it in the sharing session, everyone Why I still create, share, and communicate here is because I think this community has love and interaction.

In 2021, BTC reached a high of more than 60,000 US dollars, and at this moment it fell below 28,000 US dollars. People who speculate in coins will say this, and the likecoin circulating on the website also fell, but they said "after the price of the currency drops, there is no money to write down." A user who later said, "But after the currency price drops, it may not be unhappy to write down" (to the effect), they continued to write. One thing I feel very deeply, I am also in different currency speculation communities, and sometimes I will see what is upsurge, such as the popular ORDI, PEPE, the first batch of NFT on the Bitcoin chain, etc., enter these groups, who After scolding that it fell again today, and then came back to Matters, everyone is still writing diaries, life, book reviews, culture, travel, photography, economics, and what to eat. Comparing the two, it is a strange phenomenon, but it should be like this normally.

Matters is an ecology built around ETH (it can connect to eth wallet, eth domain name, and reward layer2 USDT), but it seems to be a kind of magic. Regardless of bear market or bull market, everyone continues to write diaries, life, and book reviews. In the town, the sun and the moon are operating, communicating as usual, walking through the trails of the town, saying hello (leaving a message). This is the daily life of a decentralized community. As a web3 social ecological platform, it does not give a large number of airdrops, does not use various tokens to attract users, and does not scan data to make people continue to alternately fish for wool. Instead, it faces itself as the real world All the organizations and communities here are condensed, encourage creation, organize activities, talk about issues, see diversity, attach importance to poetry, books, and humanities, and welcome everyone to open microphones. You have you to write recipes, and I have me to talk about life. This is by no means Shortcuts, but back to the basics, you can go a long way.

@Robert 's anthology includes "Night Talk" and "NFT Weekly Report". In fact, in my opinion, it is his identity on Matters, from the moderator of the NFT discussion area to the weekly night talk (because he likes to listen to radio programs very much. ), he set up a small garden on Discord, doing a little bit of what he wanted to do. If so, I think this anthology is actually his identity trajectory to a certain extent; @MaryVentura has established a book review anthology, one hundred articles, which is her main focus. When thinking of book reviews, one will think of her as one of the prolific authors. The anthology has its own Status symbols, tendencies, are three-dimensional. She also came to the sharing meeting, came in with the account of @字结杂志, and when she saw the name, she remembered that it was the magazine she ran. This little thing, I immediately felt, um, I learned that different people love what they are doing, and I also hope that everyone has what they love and can do what they want to do. I don’t know which platform you will go to, and you can continue to write wherever you go. Having exchanges here is also a small part of growth.

@Sunline (阿线)’s sharing is great. Aline has 833 articles, and it took a whole day to classify them into 29 anthologies. In that day, it was actually a conversation between myself and myself, and I re-read my articles and classified them. , That is to sort out your life and the past one by one. Therefore, I understand why some people think that "removing the number of words in an article" is a bad thing. It feels like an indicator that has been accumulating, a number that represents a sense of accomplishment, and a growth testimony that has accumulated over time, all of a sudden disappeared. @Robert described that the article has no "browsing hours", just like an article is sent out, and I don't know how many people read it, and it sinks directly into the sea. This description is very specific, so those numbers are actually a kind of "response", a response from a neighbor or a distant place, I am here, are you there? Did you see me? I see you, but you know what? Those numbers may be an intimate response, letting you know that you are there, and others are also there; there is also another voice that doesn’t care much about numbers, and the reason for writing down does not have to be based on numbers. If you see numbers, you may be even less motivated Yes, everyone has different ideas, but what they have in common is that everyone grows up in creation, and is with people from all over the world, knowing that everyone is there; some people have not turned on the microphone, but keep pressing the emoji of google meet , a series of hearts and clapping hands, that is a kind of "being".

The cover of @Lola is very beautiful, those paintings are her favorite artists, the essays and creations collected in the anthology, she said it is like flipping through a book; @泡泡的太阳is very humorous (I don’t know if I don’t listen to the voice ), his comments are very useful, and he even figured out how to improve the graphic display, such as large anthologies and small anthologies. After selecting the article, there must be an identification to avoid omissions.

The text discussion has @Daisy and @swiftevo interacting, always so hilarious, the three of us had afternoon tea before and were somehow like friends (I think, do you two feel... ), At least every three or four days online, you have to talk nonsense, knowing that everyone is not dead, that's good.

I don’t know if Dobby has done some community activities, systems, or those are just polite words. Dobby taught these three words. In fact, to put it bluntly, whatever is good, I am a person who loves the community. Although I am an INFP, I am introverted. , do not like communication, and do not like many people, when looking for answers, they tend to look inward rather than outward, but if it is kind, common, and sincere, then it is good. Thanks to those who came to the event, we had a good hour and a half.