Ah, the good old pain of loss. I'm not a fan of it. It helps me to assume that I'll lose everything and everyone eventually, but it still hurts when it happens. That's a great description you wrote up there.

About the communities - I think I see that differently. Especially when it comes to quality content. If one wants a community that only offers the best content (by one's standards), it makes sense to select. Like sport teams. Now, that obviously doesn't apply to you in this case as you are a great writer and probably more than worthy of writing there. But not everyone is that good.

Though I generally support the openness you describe, a certain restriction of content does help, especially on social media. It can help me personally getting the most out of my time here on Hive, when I know a group as certain standards. Or that a certain curator is more or less in line with my preferences of content.

It's fickle, too. Too many rules damage the diversity and challenge by the other, you're absolutely right about that. If every community starts doing that, it would be a problem. But then again, others can create open communities. That, too, is diversity.

Anyway, I'm sorry that you had to go through that drama. It's never fun. As I might have mentioned once or twice, I personally enjoy your content very, very much, no matter in which community you post :-)