Congratulations on 8th. I'm going to be 8 as well by September 11th.
I think you're right, Trump change the censorship narrative by giving back a few accounts to their original owners, but these guys are just popular people. I think regular people are losing their X accounts everyday, for absolutely no reason, and this also with those who have a large was well subscribed to Twitter blue.
I think the idea of decentralization will only continue to appeal to a few people, although as we go, many people will adopt it but just not large enough to topple centralized social apps. There are big advantages to having big VCs anyway, but as you've said, having that on Hive would seem to compromise everything the Blockchain stands for, we saw it with Justin Sun.
I think engagement has generally dropped on Hive, but then it affects people differently and also uniquely too.
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RE: Eight Years on Hive