Where Have all my Steemit Friends Gone?

I have been absent from Steemit for eleven months... almost a year. I am definitely clueless as to how this platform has evolved or changed. Even when I was very much active from when I first started up to last year and then I spent my time away from Steemit and Discord, I still had not learnt much about this whole blockchain. I would only come here and post so I could share something that I have knowledge of, or share about my interests, my work and daily activities (sort of like a journal or diary for me), or catch up with people I've met here, but other than that, I really did not care about how everything worked. I have never understood the "blockchain language".

There have been lots of things that happened in the last few months, and I want to share it here. However, it bothers me to know that most people may think that they don't care about some personal details of my life, especially I was surprised to find out that some people I used to exchange messages with have moved on (or moved to a different platform), they're no longer active here... so who am I to tell things to?

I am also very reserved to jump in someone else's post and post a comment just so to make myself visible to other people, even when I want to connect with someone so that at least, I'm just not here to exist. I want to co-exist. But I feel like everyone is speaking a whole different language and I can't understand their English... they're too technical! I wish I did not step away from Steemit (I totally regret that) because now I am kind of lost in translation.

I feel so overwhelmed by the changes made on Steemit, like there are communities now I can subscribe to, etc. But, I'm just wondering, where have all my friends and acquaintances gone? I've browsed some of the posts, and some said goodbye to Steemit but they moved to HIVE. What is HIVE anyway?

One thing I do like about the change though is that I am able to browse all my posts from two years back. I'm glad about that. I thought I lost them forever.

Anyway, enough babbling or rambling. Please forgive my nonsense. Until next time.