A friend gave me this link: https://t.me/hiveblockchain

You could ask in there.

I'd be interested to learn more about this history. I'll do some googling, but I'd zap for some links to get me started on the right track.

Scoresby

Steemit was a pioneer, I'm shocked that Stackers don't know about it.

Yes, it was a shit coin, but it couldn't have been done on Bitcoin at the time, and it did find PMF until government broke down. It was the only shitcoin at the time whose value didn't track Bitcoin's, it found a completely new audience and onboarded them to crypto, unlikely basically all of the new people at the time who came through Bitcoin. In that regard it was more successful than SN, which has never found PMF outside Bitcoiners.

The purists moved to a fork called Hive. They will meet in places like Kuala Lumpur.

bitcoin

Why isn't there a shitcoin version of Stacker News?

Steemit was a pioneer, I'm shocked that Stackers don't know about it. 

Yes, it was a shit coin, but it couldn't have been done on Bitcoin at the time, and it did find PMF until government broke down. It was the only shitcoin at the time whose value didn't track Bitcoin's, it found a completely new audience and onboarded them to crypto, unlikely basically all of the new people at the time who came through Bitcoin. In that regard it was more successful than SN, which has never found PMF outside Bitcoiners.

The purists moved to a fork called Hive. They will meet in places like Kuala Lumpur.