All that is true what you said there.

But a word I haven't used yet in these posts and comments of mine since returning is also something of core importance to all and any of those true things you illuminated having a future to continue happening...

And that word is "cohesion", that's what I feel like might be missing. Sure people can decentralize and do their own thing, but they don't need a singular chain or social media site to do that. What kept this place thriving in the kind of way I am reminiscing about was "cohesion" - an "we're all in this together, let's tell the world" kind of way.

I am a huge consumer of all the major social media outlets, a part-time consumer of many cryptocurrency outlets and have always kept an eye on this specific chain as a consumer and contributor of it's offerings since I discovered it.

But I can tell you for sure, there may be people still out the promoting it from sheer excitement and enthusiasm in the current world, like this example from @raymondspeaks I found and that he posted very currently - in fact, just 5 hours ago today: (associated platform post for any interested rewards givers if you want to go see it: @brofund/if-youre-a-content-creator-try-this-8zt)

And thats the kind of stuff I am talking about, X, Youtube, Facebook, etc. Used to be I could find organic hive promotion all over the place. I don't see it as much anymore.

And that makes me sad a little.

The discords sit static and quiet all day, I'm in a lot of them and always was. Used to be cranking with chatter, humor, supporting each other, encouraging each other, arguing, solving, ... communing. I see mostly quiet discords and niches of long time friends popping in periodically, but its not like it used to just continuously buzzzz in any of them.

Change as I said elsewhere, is inevitable, but I what I see here on my return is just a very small taste of what was once a much more vibrant smorgasbord.

Maybe its just me, but I've spent the last week pretty much scrolling feeds, community sections, bouncing in and out of discords, and I can't find the level of activity we had when I left. Big names taking long breaks between posts, tiny names not loading my feed with new faces. Just sort of a place, that kinda seems stuck in a rut.

But that's just one man's perspective. And one I've had echoed to me by some of the others returning and peeking in that I've been speaking with.

Something, inarticulable, is missing and I'm still writing long words trying to define and describe what I mean, about the lightening in the bottle we had caught, that seems like maybe has escaped a little bit. Maybe a lot.

Can we re-capture that?