Yes it's given us a really really great opportunity.

Hive still serves a function, with it's many projects, avenues to earn and the reach that the blockchain has. I am happy that Hive is a bastion of light giving those in the poorer countries their first opportunity to live like a normal person and not having to struggle for bread.

What attracted me to Hive was the promise of community. The earnings are secondary to me. When I saw LeoFinance working on bridging the fiat commercial system with the blockchain, i thought it was game over. I used to follow a dude called Kenny on hive, he was real real popular. Kenny somehting....i think he speaks at Anarcopulco (did i spell it right?). He quit Hive like 3 years back cuz of the downvoting prob. Now more corruption's being revealed from within the community and it saddens i.

Blurt has an advantage - it has a relatively unsaturated space. Though Blurt's been around as long as Hive (after the steemit fork), Blurt's not been corrupted as Hive has; there isn't a downvote capability on blurt.blog (side note...why's there a downvote button on blurt.media?). People are really trying to build something here. Also blurt.blog, because of being connected with blurt.media, has the support of peertube and that is truly amazing.