Wow you are fired up again - this is like the old days!
I never really gave a toss about marketing - there was a time when I was on Hive for two main reasons - to post content that I was blocked from posting on mainstream platforms, and to earn money from posting and curating.
At one point I had over 250k of HP split between multiple accounts, doing a lot of autovoting, and looking at my old Hive spreadsheet yesterday, I clearly saw it as a business, which as things worked out it was.
At the same time I was posting about stuff like the covidhoax and the injection scam, and that is what got me blacklisted - some of the biggest accounts on Hive are pro globalist and pro narrative, and I never worked out if they are deep state or just total retards.
But in the end I was so fucked off about being downvoted all the time that I powered down, sold the lot, then told some big whales to go fuck themselves and stopped posting on Hive. As it worked out it was a great time to sell Hive and I made truckloads. So those whaletards did me a big favour.
After using a bunch of other platforms for the past two years I now value how well put together Hive actually is - everything works really well - the other sites don't! - and the payouts don't matter to me anymore, as I see now that wanting my $10 payout for each post was what the whaletards had over me - If I don't care and turn off the rewards, their whole carrot and stick control system is buggered.
So if I get back into using Hive again, as well as declining rewards, I also won't be investing or powering up my accounts beyond the 5HP needed for resource credits. The whole thing of linking content to rewards, always seems to lead to a total disaster. At least for anyone trying to expose narratives and agendas it does. For posting pictures of kittens it's fine...
RE: Why Hive Needs a Makeover.. Branding, Marketing and Making Friends