Appreciate the thoughtful comment @bashadow, and a bit of background on your own social Internet experience.

My own affinity for Steemit/Hive came as a result of my former favorite web format which I loosely refer to as "social blogging," which was an online mainstay for many writers and creative types between about 1998 and 2005 when MySpace and Facebook pretty much destroyed (at least for my money) what I think of as the thinking web.

When I found Steemit — quite by accident — in 2017, it was so similar to my old (long defunct) venues like Xanga, LiveJournal and Dairy-X that I made an account and got started... the whole decentralization, and blockchain and cryptocurrency angle was pretty much irrelevant to me... BUT I warmed to the idea of decentralized blockchains because it really appealed to me that there was no central company to go bunkrupt and all the time I'd invested in content creation would be lost.

To this day, that remains one of my primary inspirations for wanting to post my stuff here, rather than somewhere else.

Clearly, I DO make Hive-centric posts from time to time, but I have to check myself whenever I want to, and ask myself whether I really am adding anything of value to the discussion, or am I just taking a hot topic and trying to troll for a couple of larger upvotes. If I find myself admitting it's the latter, I generally end up hitting the "delete" button...