I was mainly on Blogspot even though many recommended WP. However I was used to Blogger and somehow I felt 'at home' with it. Nice free blog themes were available and my blog looked semi-professional (it was about Flash and later Python) but SEO wise it was disaster so I guess that's was the main reason why I never monetized it.
Always backup, hard learned lesson, I know. I would probably feel the same.
Hive is interesting, but I think it takes a lot of digging into what and where to post, what communities etc to be able to make good profit. It's the future for sure that's why I'm still here :)
RE: Content Ownership in Web3: What I Learned from 12 Years of Blogging for Nothing