Interesting point to make considering all social media platforms are actively engaging in mass censorship and breaking connectivity.

There are no platforms I can compare Hive to.
Hive is completely unique.

Steem? Blurt? Golos? Whaleshares?
I don't see the splinter communities accomplishing much.

Comparing Hive to Facebook or Twitter or TikTok is like comparing Windows to a calculator app. Hive is not social media. Some of the frontends on Hive vaguely resemble social media. Any centralized service in existence could connect to Hive to give their users access to the currency.

The value proposition of Hive has nothing to do with social media. This network could pivot in an instant away from that model if it suited us. Every one of these networks only has so much bandwidth (very little at that). They are all niche, and they all will remain so until we develop some pretty insane second layer solution and interoperability modules. At which point... is it really even Hive anymore if 99.9% of the transactions are off-chain and/or connecting to some other service?