man i love your level of self-reflection and can relate so much to what you are saying here.
the saddest thing really is realizing nobody reads along. in ecency there is this eye symbol showing how many have looked at the actual post and its sub 5 for almost all posts. so i feel ya.
I am NOT here to convince you of anything, or to make you do stuff. But I do miss you and I have a sense of community again now that I started writing on Blurt. It feels very reminiscent of the glory days on Steem, and well, the reason I focus my energy there now is because I prefer the spirit.
Blurt gets a bad rep on Hive and the token is worth nothing, BUT the community and the people I did meet there feel like a community again vs. this empty wasteland of a social media phantom hive has become.
I just saw you have a blurt account, if you still have your old steem keys maybe come and log in, see if you get a better feel. I would sure love to have you over there in my feed where it feels like we are actually building stuff and not being bled dry financially and spiritually.
just my two cents of course. you and like 4 others are the only reason i even check my hive feed once in a while now. all the others i liked reading have long been mobbed off of hive.
i publish on both blockchains now but only put energy into blurt.
i also want to build a front end experiment but that is all still in the future.
anyways, many blessings to south africa brother!
RE: Free thoughts on Hive after 8 years and over 1 million words