Glad to see the videos fixed, I had to watch a couple on bitchute.

The more stake that is held, the larger the influence in the hive.
If we don't like what is happening buying more stake on the dips is about the only recourse excepting abandoning it.
The tech is too good for that.

I agree with FrankB, the audience here is too small to have much impact.
But, if you bring an audience here, the more stake they control the less that is controlled by the current controllers.
More users renders moot a lot of the disagreement.

Stakeholding in hive includes voting the hive power, any unvoted hive power is more money/power to the status quo.
Selfvoting has been seen as greedy since about hf17, before that it was default to selfvote.

With hive inflation running ~7% hive power is a good investment provided it is voted each day.
With the ~3% staking rewards you make 12% on it.
Hive as hbd is even better at 20% for a 3 day locking period.

Ya'll have the resources over there to change the culture here, if you cared to do that.