{"id":22977,"date":"2022-11-13T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=22977"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:17:48","slug":"blurt-is-like-a-small-country-town-with-a-dark-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/art-by-frot\/blurt-is-like-a-small-country-town-with-a-dark-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"BLURT IS LIKE A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN WITH A DARK SECRET"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OK, I’ve been putting a sock in it for the past few months, but today is Sunday here in the first place in the world, so it’s about time I mouthed off a bit…<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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One of the charms of Blurt was that it was like a friendly happy little village where everyone said “Hi” in the main street and hung out at the pub drinking piss and smoking fags.<\/p>\n

But after hanging out in the village for a while you eventually find out that the mayor is a cross-dresser and all the councilors are embezzling the rates money and spending it all on hookers and blow.<\/p>\n

Or in this day and age, on trannies and butt plugs.<\/h3>\n

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I haven’t been going on about these things much, I’m not a rabid penguin, and I’ve been more focused on other stuff, but yes I’d like to see Blurt do a hardfork and I think the cross dressing mayor and all his “elected” officials need to be run out of town. But for $300 I’m not going to freak out about it.<\/p>\n

And yes, that is all my 85k of Blurt tokens are worth this week – about US$300. To put that in perspective my holdings in Pkoin on the Bastyon platform are now worth over US$10k. And my gains are mainly coming not from posting but from running a node.<\/p>\n

Blurt has some key features I’m looking for in a platform – it is essentially a copy of Steemit circa 2017. So it runs on Markdown, and I’m right at home with it because I’ve been using various forms of this blockchain for nearly 6 1\/2 years now.<\/p>\n

And Blurt has no downvoting, and a dark mode – the two things I always wanted on Steemit! – so all it has to do is sort of work, and even if the token price sucks, I’ll be a regular.<\/p>\n

But this platform could be so much more…<\/h1>\n

I’m not powering down or freaking out, but I have to say that this platform has been totally fucked over by a bunch of incompetent twats, and there are bugger all people still here posting or commenting. While I do plan to keep using Blurt to some extent, when I check back in and see the state of things, it fires me up to keep working on growing my WordPress blog and my Bastyon account.<\/p>\n

My WordPress blog now has four new image galleries set up – ART, MEMES, PHOTOART & PHOTOS, as well as 720 blog posts<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

And on Bastyon if you want to suss it out, feel free to look me up if you have any questions –\u00a0https:\/\/bastyon.com\/frot<\/a><\/p>\n

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