I think you made a good choice to pair ALIVE with ALIVEM because as you said it doesn't encourage people to swap the tokens for swap.hive (which they can still do over the normal market). It actually gives a new use case to both tokens where a part of the supply can be staked. It reduces the liquidity on the market for one and also it increases the APR for curation because people stake their tokens in the diesel pool as well. So everybody profits with this solution. Great move! I already started to provide liquidity :-)