Careful about generalizing Hiveans distaste for micoblogging, some but not all and dont let the minority represent everyone else. Its a personal take but if I see low effort posts get rewarded like 2 to 3 digits of $, in my opinion, that picture of a flower you took or what you ate isnt worth hundred dollars but that's just me. Someone else can upvote you becauae they like you or the picture ans that's none of my business.

Coming from a place where I have also been downvoted by a group for petty diaagreements and I still get sporadic downvotes from a nutcase that cant go away after YEARS since the incident, I can say for certain that maybe this decentralized and freedom of speech is really real. I can get my rep to negative because I pissed off someone and it would just appear as some big guy downvoting me to oblivion but my posts are still visible and people can see the reason why I got negative rep for only disagreeing. Does that make my reputation as a person less? I only lost some digits but I still get to express the hell I want because decentralized and less about token rewards.

I dont think people are really into free speech unless it talks about what they already agree on. If you can totally ban someone you disagree by downvotes, maybe Hive blockchain isnt the place for that type of freedom of speech because downvotes dont shut people up here. Make noise at - 20 rep and you can still be visible.

When people complain about downvotes 9/10 its really just a loss of token rewards and less about the content. Because someone is a negative rep, they are unlikely to get voted on and getting voted on means gaining money. And dissect the root of their motivations, they just want to be paid for having an opinion. Its not for all, there's the 1/10 that really are in it for the freedom of speech and just want to say whats on their mind regardless they get internet points or tokens for it.

I say many people arent ready for free speech because decentralization also means dealing with people you disagree and label toxic to your belief system. I embrace the fact that there can be several people coming at me for sharing a piece of my mind, get downvoted for my opinions, and etc but I wont hold it against them for disagreeing, they get the same privilege to express the hell they want too.