"I've advocated for the genuine and organic approach for almost ten years. I still see potential there. A lot, actually. People worked hard on all this. Often when I look around I see plenty of tools, still in the box...I often feel alone in that department."

We are in agreement about a lot of things. Those things. It's because of those things I am looking back at how our (Hive) circumstances evolved, to see where we got locked into this apparent death spiral. Maybe there's a way out, a way to fix it.

You came back. There's a good reason. The sense of 'almost, but not quite' I get so frustrates me sometimes it's difficult to check my tongue. Hive doesn't have to fail, but it's hard to deny it appears to be. I've been here nearly a decade too, not nearly as bright, nor as influential or as good a writer as you are, but bright enough to note more concordance between our views than discordance. There aren't many folks that have stuck to their organic guns as both of us have. I see that demonstrates we both consider human society to be extraordinary. I have used the word sacred in reference to society.

I don't want the technical advance in social media Steem advented a decade ago to simply be subsumed by profiteers, kicked to the curb by grubby token miners. I have occasionally pointed out that Steem (prior to the flight of The Hair) and Hive (and even Blurt, too, to be fair) have the base technology to enable voluntarist government to be conducted using the platform. Because I think we need voluntarist government I consider that significant. I think Steem solved the online voting security problem. I am unaware that anyone has ever cracked the encryption and the blockchain makes votes auditable.

I'm not seeking to oppose your views on this or that. I'm trying to come up with an alternative to Hive dying. I'm not trying to recruit co-revolutionaries (yet), but I am trying to get criticised and availed better ideas than I can come up with without abandoning my commitment to organic human society, a commitment you seem no less dedicated to than I am. The factual criticism you undertook above, regarding curation, was exactly what I need to keep from barking up illusory trees. I'm not particularly bright, but I do want to be factually correct, at the forefront of innovation regarding decentralization, and if Hive is going to use it's great potential to enable voluntarist governance, organic society, and empower social media to be what free people need instead of end up a shriveled worthless husk, then a way forward needs to be found. Since I can't find one, because my misunderstandings get in the way, I reached out to you here, where obscurity eliminates concern about treading on toes and you can forthrightly respond.

"I only have words and those never change things."

It's the words we share that enable high quality society to be beneficial. From it's outset written language has enabled words to be shared by people separated by thousands of miles and millennia. The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' still informs the West today. I can't think of anything more powerful mere men can use.

I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.