It is pretty amazing the number of people that gladly accept or strive for labels. I have seen post that hive is doomed, that it will never amount to much and that it is an echo box only, that hive is outside of and behind the social and cultural curve. I just do not see that, what I have seen is people/individual fighting against the unjustifiable down vote when some one tries to put themselves up as the thought police. They don't last long when they learn that others on Hive will not tolerate thought police type actions.

To me that is growth as a culture and as a society. The wealthy on Hive can try to control the narrative, but they get kick back each and every time they try it. There is room for and a need for down votes, but when used inappropriately people get called out for it.

Hive is rebuilding backbones in men and womens on-line personas, that is the way I see it at any rate. Since the switch from Steem to Hive this is even more readily apparent to me. Bullying is being stood up to and the bullies are being taken down, unlike on some social sites.

I hope that the building of on-line backbones on hive can transfer over to the real world.