Don't fucking fake it...

Maybe Hive keeps me interested for nostalgic reasons. I dove full-heartedly into social blogging during its nascent years in the late 1990s and first 5-6 years of the 2000s.

Yes, I'm old.

Hive — and the legacy chain — felt like a return to my favorite format; a format I really didn't consider myself "done" with when Zuckerfuck and his Book of Face turned an authentic written dialogue into a shitshow of friends collecting and vapid emojis.

Why write something meaningful when a one-click smiley can pass for "being social?"

Yes, I'm old. And writing on Hive feels like actively rejecting the majority insistence that "long form is dead."

Besides, there are some really interesting people on Hive.