Ive also been helping out on blurt a bit. The current situation on blurt is pretty bad, generally dont have a graphene adept dev so development is patchy, up until about a month ago you couldnt even manually compile blurt till I came in and fixed the build system enough to work.
I personally am in it to see if and how well blurt works with no RC and stable coin. Lack of downvotes is.. Eh. A problem without alternative to combat abuse.
Its a pretty testing time for blurt
I'm not against the project really. It is just that a lot of people there complain about Hive, but all they have is a basic blogging dapp and Hive is much more than that. Good luck with it.