hey, I noticed you followed me, and ended up landing here, reading your post
I come to the conclusion that I should try to dive deeper into the content of Hive and try to be more aware of other people's dreams, be a part of them and support them, so that I can regain the feeling that I'm not just looking for what I can receive, but being part of something bigger, where many are benefited.
Unfortunately, during my early days I followed too many people for the sake of gaining followers
the things you write are very true. except maybe the thing that 'living more of your life inside the Hive' is... er... comes in contradiction maybe, with idea living off the nature ;)))))
personally, I restricted myself with an obscure number of '100 followers' and I never followed anybody just for the sake of mutual following back, and for the number of friends. and (hehe) I am actually feel relief that many of those 100 friends do not post at all. it is impossible to devote a part of your life to reading of all the stuff 100 folks would produce on a daily basis.
Besides that, I curate two communities (FL and RU), and becides that I recently jumped onto curating for creative coin fund. actually, I wave a very small 'window' to check up my own feed! which I do, just sporadically, from time to time, when I have a little window in my real life.
What was my lyrical intro, sort of.
I am not sure that my blog match your criteria, but why not? basically, its a rough mix of streetphoto and city street life (which is my passion as an amateur photographer) and nature edudes, including mushrooms, and macros, which again I am obsessed with. If that suits you, I will be honored... Anyway, it s no harm I guess to present in one's feed, if you check it from time to time, to pull the stuff you are attracted to, and examine it more neatly, if you have time and desire to.
Among Hive musicians, I can name the names of @alena-vladi, and @mipiano
As for FL community, its maybe a bit hard to follow cause - exactly like you put it - theres too much stuff skin deep, that folks throw in just for the sake of earning tokens. But most intresting posts end up in FL digest issues, so you may follow @hive-166168 instead... ofc thats totally up to you.
Herbal life community is a better place more focused on what you are after, I think.
Speaking of fungi -- @arhat, @marianomariano, @sketch.and.jam do the blogs about less known intresting foragable mushrooms, and recipes. besides that @sketch is a musician and artist, as well as an intresting person. Also I could not but mention @borjan, but his blog is very divercified, and I cant say that fungi/recipes make the bigger part of it. hmm.... ok let me round up here. hope i wasnt too verbose, and it was a useful comment. cheers!