Where have all the communities gone?

No, not those communities! I don't mean the Hive feature. I mean collections of humans.

Used to be you're pop into the Hive chat and you could talk to people and make connections. Many of my followers and those I follow are from Hive chat. But now it's dead. I'm still there, but few others are. I'm in the rocket chat, the Hive PeakD chat, a few of the "communities" chats related to the built-in chat, and a few Discords. They're almost all dead though.

And there's nowhere to do post promo. Which yeah, blah blah blah, people hate post promo, but it's actually a good thing to have people read your content. Whether or not they vote on it is up to them. And it really sucks when it feels like something you worked hard on isn't even being read. Like the horror story I wrote the other day that ended up being too long. (Shameless plug.)

I hate Discord, but I even am keeping Discord open, trying to find places to interact with people and try to build my Hive community.

It's not just about post rewards! I've even started enabling @commentrewarder on my posts, now that I know about it. And I could really use those rewards! I need to rebuild my "stack"/Hive account. 3%/5% really adds up! I'd almost rather just pay a bot to trail my votes on comments. Like @dustsweeper does, but for people I vote on. Until I can build my account back up to at least a penny or two upvote, my upvote is dust. So I gotta hope they use @dustsweeper too.

It's just so frustrating! Although this place doesn't feel dead, the "communities", in the sense of people gathering in like a chat or something, do.

Where am I supposed to go? Where do people go now? What chats or web sites are still active that allow people to interact and talk about Hive and share posts?

Also asking if you know of any projects that can help with getting move views and interaction.