Congratulations on hitting 9 years @steevc I remember the tsu community well. It had a lot of promise but failed for a number of reasons primarily because it was a centralized system and was an easy target for the likes of Googl in terms of search rankings. Tsu did some great things before it fell apart.

We learned that running multiple discrete nodes can overcome many of those problems.

Recruitment is often a problem for growing any network but we have the added negative impact of anti crypto stuff in the legacy media.

Think about bitcoin. It was in the doldrums for most of its existence and it has no social media platforms but it does have hard core supporters and hodlers.

Stable coins like HBD are the key to future growth imo.

The ad free experience of hive is something that people may find appealing once they wake up to the lack of privacy on every other 'social media' platform out there.