Hello my friend @erh.germany,
I enjoyed this article very much, you have a deeply philosophical mind which helps people view things from many different perspectives.

I find Hive to be an interesting social experiment, one which provides different purposes for different kinds of people. Oddly it's a very small number of people in comparison to mainstream outlets and this adds to its mysteriousness if I'm to freely express my opinion here :D

If we are to stay completely within the confines of Hive and Hive alone, then the possibility for intimate online relationships is pretty limited in my view, and intimate might even be perceived differently by some, but in my perspective, I think the meaning is close personal relationships which can be compared to real life flesh and blood relationships.

Discord has been a major background service which has no ties to the Hive blockchain as far as I know, but has been like an integral third party tool to help with business models and management.
The integration cannot be completely dismissed in my opinion, because it heavily influences a great deal of what happens on Hive.

Many of the communities on here have discord communities with voice shows and even video broadcasts with people spending large quantities of time through digital interface with one another. Some of the broadcasts might be for an audience, some are one on one. For business models and personal friends projected through a digital interface, this is as close to intimate relationships as we're going to get here (for now), and perhaps some people have some very intimate/close friendships that they cherish deeply but have never even met the other party in real life before.

But things also suddenly skew through text due to misinterpreted inflection and/or plans of one or more parties change, commitments change, etc, and then one or more parties may find themselves deeply disappointed, angry, sad, etc, all because of investment of self, through a digital interface.

The online world seems to change so rapidly day to day that it's hard to keep up with everything, it's very understandable that breaks may be needed, reassessment of what matters here, and how much time should be invested, and when, etc.

I could go on for hours talking about this I think, but then I might be investing too much of myself unless I just change my perception to feel like it doesn't matter either way :D

I hope I addressed some points here in a resonating fashion. For me this place has helped me reinforce positive change in my life, and I've met some really nice people like yourself :) and have also had disputes, arguments, friends turn into enemies, enemies turn back into friends, seen weird things, funny things, excellent literature, excellent art in so many forms, etc, yeah Hive is definitely a different kind of place where some really cool internet dwellers dwell in my opinion :D

You could just post your philosophical thoughts whenever the urge comes, no commitments or cares about it, and maybe you will get responses like this once in a while that may or may not make it all worth it :)

No matter what type of content you post, it's always very fascinating, intelligently narrated/written, and the artistic contributions you've shared are also profoundly amazing and enjoyed by the community.

Thank you for the musing 🤗