It is great that you are initiating this again. When HIVE was still steem (before everything went south) me and my local enthusiasts were promoting like wild. It wasn't just about the token because we were hoping to sustain a network of locals where we could call friends and support each other. However because of constant market crash, and especially those who are unable to keep up with consistent blogging at the time, local witnesses were very hard to sustain, drama (steem) sets in, everyone decided to part ways, with a small amount still trying to survive with the bit of HIVE income to fill in the missing basic income that we don't have.
I'd like to see how you are going to revive this. Hopefully, there will be a long-term self-sustaining system with a consistent, less volatile price change to enable people to see this as something worth maintaining and not just robbing it for mere profit.