Hive is controlled by a mafia that captures most of the created wealth by the network. Just look at the 'DAO' proposals, and how it's the same people in the witnesses. It's also the same people running all the apps. They pretend they are not a corporation, yet they will never relinquish control of this chain, and they decide everything via private channels, to which you will never have access to, unless you suck their dicks and do what they say afterwards.

Most of the real people who believed in decentralization are long gone from this network. Those who remain, are just pretending and keeping the shit running so their income doesn't stop. If you are looking for decentralized media, look somewhere else. Even if the governance issue was fixed, the economy would need to get fixed, and author rewards nulled, in order equilibrate supply and demand and to create a stable market for the token. And to make the matter worse, the codebase of hive, which is a fork of steem, which is a fork of bitshares, is obviously complete bloat.

3speak is just trash and not worth talking about