{"id":22172,"date":"2022-06-11T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2022-06-12T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T05:15:36","slug":"what-is-blurt-like-and-should-i-get-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/art-by-frot\/what-is-blurt-like-and-should-i-get-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Blurt like and should I get on it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PostFull__header\">\n<div class=\"right-side\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Should I get my arse on Blurt?&#8221; a friend from Steemit just asked me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<p><em>This was my reply:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blurt &#8211; I like it &#8211; it really has a friendly vibe I haven&#8217;t seen on the other platforms &#8211; no down voting and no nasty comments &#8211; I haven&#8217;t posted much because we are pretty busy, but I have totally quit Hive just as i did with Steemit and would like to post more on Blurt &#8211; I&#8217;ll never use Hive again, you were right, those insiders are pure evil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blurt.blog\/crypto\/@world-travel-pro\/red-alert-wealthy-satanic-pedophile-network-in-full-control-of-hive-blockchain-fbi\">https:\/\/blurt.blog\/crypto\/@world-travel-pro\/red-alert-wealthy-satanic-pedophile-network-in-full-control-of-hive-blockchain-fbi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blurt.blog\/@world-travel-pro\">@world-travel-pro<\/a>\u00a0for lots of good posts<\/p>\n<p>And although the tokens are not worth much I actually get more in payouts for my posts because everything I post seems to earn between about $2 and $14 and I get to keep half of it &#8211; the payout system actually seems to go to the bloggers rather than a bunch of insider whales<\/p>\n<p>My wallet constantly grows and I now have about 65k of tokens worth about US$1300 &#8211; most of that I bought from trading left over odd Hive tokens for Blurt &#8211; it&#8217;s not much compared to when i was an orca on hive but it&#8217;s enough to be able to give out votes worth about 4 cents<\/p>\n<p>Downsides &#8211; the interface is pretty basic and only improves very slowly, and there just aren&#8217;t that many people compared to say Steemit in 2017 &#8211; but it is slowly growing &#8211; definitely give it a try<\/p>\n<p>You already have an account all ready to go &#8211; same keys as your Steemit\/Hive account if you haven&#8217;t changed them &#8211; you just need to keep a small amount of liquid tokens &#8211; keep say 20 -100 tokens liquid &#8211; to pay for activities<\/p>\n<p>To begin with I thought having to pay for everything was a real pain in the arse &#8211; but then I realised &#8211; it totally stops all bots and spam &#8211; works brilliantly<\/p>\n<p>So everything costs about 1\/10 of a cent and there is no downvoting &#8211; and those two simple changes fix many problems<\/p>\n<p>I also think most of the accounts are real people &#8211; they respond if you reply to them<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pissing down here again &#8211; regular chemtrails are keeping things very wet!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/3e7b3df461bf4a6be4fd17c732ffadf22aca9b9b.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Max Igan keeps nailing it on Bitchute<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This link will take you away from blurt.blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/8yly989fgo80\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/8yly989fgo80\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/8a9d025df7b40b0251a86c4c11fc1dd46b07321f.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Yes, get your arse on Blurt!<\/h1>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/imgp.blurt.world\/768x0\/https:\/\/img.blurt.world\/blurtimage\/frot\/ae30f215dcb6013ce42cba4c1c81dffe75f3360d.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TagList__horizontal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blurt.blog\/blurt\/@frot\/what-is-blurt-like-and-should-i-get-on-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blurt.blog\/blurt\/@frot\/what-is-blurt-like-and-should-i-get-on-it<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Should I get my arse on Blurt?&#8221; a friend from Steemit just asked me. This was my reply: Blurt &#8211; I like it &#8211; it really has a friendly vibe I haven&#8217;t seen on the other platforms &#8211; no down voting and no nasty comments &#8211; I haven&#8217;t posted much because we are pretty busy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[64,85],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image3A134600_mirror-03.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22122,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/five-things-i-quit-doing-when-i-switched-to-blurt\/","url_meta":{"origin":22172,"position":0},"title":"FIVE THINGS I QUIT DOING WHEN I SWITCHED TO BLURT","date":"May 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This year would have been my second anniversary on Hive in March. 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