When I came into Hive it was because @steevc was already here and his understanding of community always seemed close to mine. While I enjoy understanding of the blockchain and rewards, my main reason to be here is blogging in the old style. When we used to make blogs on Blogger and WordPress it was about just the act of writing anything and everything. And comments were the currency of interacting over those ideas. If it was just a para or two write a comment, if more then that then write a blog answer and connect it to the comment. For me it gave me connection to a larger community outside my geographical constraints. I always felt that my tribe is more global and the comment thread seemed to be the best way for this tribe to interact without pressure of time or length of answer. I felt that this led to quite interesting discussions. Sadly that era had passed and the comments in Reddit, Twitter, Facebook etc. felt fast and hasty and very rarely did the threads have discussions per se. Great to see the old blog like culture alive here in this community and for me that means comments are a first class discussion and hopefully more of us will spend more time in this area so that we can all have nice fun and thoughtful conversations.
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I hear you, my man. I've been blogging for nearly 28 years, starting on my university server long long ago, doing it all by hand in an era before CMSes, but quickly switching to Wordpress as soon as it grew stable enough. I still have a wordpress blog which I post to at least weekly. There still is a vibrant community out there, but it is much much less than it was, having been eroded by the sites you mention. I blog here more often, but I do still love that old Wordpress community. Anyway, it is really nice how Hive still embraces that blogging culture, complete with the focus on commenting and interacting with each other, made so much easier by the ease of linking to other people with the @ shortcut.
In India blogging (especially on platforms like WordPress) at the general level was alive till the Orkut years. Facebook pulled away the general bloggers who used to write for friends and family. And now 'blogging' == 'content creation here'. The simple posts I write will be considered the opposite of best practice. The whole idea is to choose your lane and stick to it. And that's the one thing I cannot do :D Even on LinkedIn nowadays it feels like one cannot write anything there without attaching three learning points from it :(
So for me, this is now a safe harbor :) But you are right, I should probably keep my WordPress alive too with some intermittent posts. By the way, my WordPress site is brijwhiz.wordpress.com.