Hey. Good to hear from you.

Hive is a fork of the Steem blockchain that excluded the Steemit stake as that was being a abused by a new owner. You can log in with the same keys you use on Steem https://peakd.com/

Steem is not what it was. One guy, Justin Sun, basically controls it and most of the good people moved to Hive.

I've run my own blogs before, but it's hard to get much engagement. Hive is much more social, even if some people are just after rewards. For what I make it has to be fun. I still think a blockchain based social platform has potential. The fork shows the community can survive a hostile takeover.

Cheers.