hi ryvhnn, nice to speak to you again, been a long time! All great points. Maybe it would be better if there was one interface and you could select your preference i.e art, or healing, and then it would curate those kinds of posts. I'll check out peakd maybe. I've been working on developing community TV projects and it was going great we just had to shut down for a while because of Covid. I wanted to build it out on a blockchain solution but nothing worked better than building our own website. This is the concept. https://tweedvalley.tv/
I'm trying to find a censorship-free blockchain solution to create a social media network for the concept and everything comes up short because the onboarding and the wallet experience for new users is terrible. The only thing I've found that I like is Hylo which is something Holochain is developing and has really great onboarding (you just give people a link and they can sign up), it would be easy to build a decentralized community on, however it doesn't yet have some basic things like video embedding in posts. I also looked at some of the ones Blockstack is developing but nothing stood out. I think we're probably going to end up having to do it on a Mastodon clone instead because that's at least open source and peer to peer and censorship-resistant and very customisable and fully functioning. There doesn't seem to be anything on any of the blockchain side of social networks that works from the perspective of building communities. There's an interesting project by a couple of Australian guys in Perth called Ultra which could be cool if it lives up to some of the stuff they are promising.
I do like Hive but it always struck me as wrong that the communities that grew on Steemit like Team Australia etc. had to do it literally on third-party centralised servers like Discord.
RE: Hive needs to work on being more user friendly