Looking Back And Learning Over Again On Hive

About three months ago, I came back on Hive after almost two years just to say "hi" with my what seemed to be hit-and-run and very short post. Then I disappeared again. Few days ago, I popped up with daily random thoughts. While writing those thoughts I found myself struggling to format texts. I ended up reviewing the Markup Styling Guide to italize text, make a superscript, list and link. It sounded funny when I used to know all these on top of my head.

There are more communities now, much more than I can remember. In reading one blog, I came across the terminology cross posting. Ah, I knew that feature was already available shortly before I disappeared for almost two years. Now I don't know how to do it so I searched for the steps and tried. It was amusing that it is not available on Hive. I had to log in to PeakD to do it. That was when I realized that logging in through PeakD is complicated. 😄 I thought it wasn't like this before. And I got a new discovery! Cross-posted blogs automatically decline payout. That tells me the cross post is a duplicate of the article and not the same copy of the original that is pulled and projected on different communities. I wonder if this was the case from the start.

It was good to see familiar names coming to my post either for upvote or engagement. I know some of the upvotes are automated so thank you to those who do. That tells me you trust my content. It was also good to see new names. That means this blockchain has grown and I believe that it will continue growing. That leaves me wondering about the others whom I used to interact with. Where they are now and how they are doing?

I manually searched for familiar names that I haven't seen on my recent posts. I even went back and searched on Steemit (I hope it is not a sin to mention here on Hive 😄). Initially, I thought it is sad to find out that many names stopped posting though I see their statuses as active just recently. But what is there to be sad for? Who knows they may be enjoying better in the real world? I hope so... 🙏

I also searched for communities that I knew and found out that a few have ceased operation. I wonder what happened to the Engagememt League. The last post did not say anything about stopping the initiative. It is the same case with Steem Basic Income though I see it is still auto-upvoting. The @pifc has ceased before I disappeared two years ago. I see it attempted to come back but did not push through. It was cool to see that @team-ccc is still running #ccc contests. I wonder how the founder, @freedomshift, is as he seem to totally stop using both Steemit and Hive platforms. Aside from #ccc, I see the Filipino community is still active and they continue their efforts to support our fellows. Kudos, team! And, OCD seem to have gone much stronger now. 👍🏻👍🏻

Speaking of communities, I went through the list and was amused of how many there are. While I understand the purpose is to have a "group" for or "categorize" like-minded people, I find it hard for a generalist like me to keep up with the different communities. On the other hand, I guess that is how we learn more. Growing is better than shrinking. I have to learn a lot more especially on the technicalities of different interfaces like ecency and... I forgot the other one that I just knew recently. 😊

Let's keep blogging!

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