I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 5 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I want go announce a notable change that @borniet and I have just made to all of our tipping bots under the MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Meta-Project, @hopelizer, @indeedly, @thestrider, @weirdly, @zombiebot, and @mmbbot. As you may have noticed, most of our tipping bots have been heavily downvoted on their tip replies by those that did not appreciate them for one reason or another. Bjorn and I were unclear about how to rectify this situation for a bit, but we finally came up with a solution to our dilemma.

One of the main issues about tipping bots, and a big reason that some people really don't like them, is comment spam, such as when a comment section is mostly filled with tip replies, and only a few actual comments or replies. To resolve the problem of comment spam, that is the main reason that our bots are being downvoted, we looked at how other tipping bots were handling their tip notifications, and in the end we decided to follow @wine.bot's method of doing it, where there are no tip replies at all, but rather an automated daily post on tipping activity. It was tested first on @indeedly and @mmbbot, and then rolled out to all the rest. The first automated daily tip posts seem to be a hit, because they are getting some nice upvotes, which is quickly restoring their reputations to a good level. So with one small change, we fixed two issues at once. Brilliant!

Resolving this problem with our tipping bots feels like a weight lifted off my heart, because I, and we, don't want to create dissonance within the Hive community, and we do want what we offer to be appreciated. With this issue rectified, Bjorn and I can finally continue with developing and fleshing out our MMB Meta-Project, one step at a time. That is very good news indeed!

On the We Are Alive Tribe front, after getting the ALIVE tipping bot back up and running, and the Alive Chat community engagement challenged kick-started and rolling, once again, it's time for me to finish the asset inventory of all the Alive Tribe accounts, so the we can best decide how to use them. I did two more accounts this morning, and I'm thankfully very close to being done completely.

Once the asset assessment is finished, then it'll be time to begin allocating and reallocating the assets on the various accounts, with the intention to begin creating a self-sufficient and self-sustaining income and asset flow, which will allow the Alive Tribe to grow in a very good way. These are exciting times indeed for both of the Hive projects in which I'm involved!

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, around 1:30PM, putting my attention first on some photography for these posts, and then collecting a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food. With that done, I took a shower, and seeing that I still had a bit of time before I was supposed to go over to Lea's (to help her transfer her data from her iPhone to her new Android), I got my machete and cleared cane grass around three young cashew trees near the Flow House. After that small task, I took one more shower (cane grass is very itchy), and then I did some token management up at the Flow House, before walking over to Lea's. She made a delicious dinner for us, which we shared before getting to the phone stuff. As with many things with technology, things took longer than expected, and I didn't end up leaving her place until just after 8PM. As soon as I got back to GaiaYoga, I collected my leftover jar of superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and I made my way back to the Flow House, to finally get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications, much later than usual. Because I stared so late, and because I still had a backlog of notifications from the night before, I was not able, yet again, to get through them all before I had to make myself go to sleep just after 12:30AM. I didn't sleep so great, waking up around 8:30AM, doing some token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk Daisy with Jo. Once I was done milking, I returned to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so a great time to end this post, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first do some photography for these posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest later this evening, and the next iteration of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.