Want to know the only people interested in a platform like Hive without the rewards?

Truthers, independent journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and all the other people who get deleted off the big corporate media platforms for not pushing the violent narrative.

Guess where those people are going? Certainly not Hive. They've been leaving Hive/Steem like a sinking ship for some time now.

Don't worry though, I'm sure once the purification is through, and it's impossible to find anything that might be "controversial" without a specialized front-end, then Hive can explode into the big leagues.

Honestly, I'm starting to see very little downside to dropping the "social media" experiment completely, and cutting the inflation of rewards pool out completely as well. Seems like a win/win for the blockchain itself, and the stakeholders. Then the social media side can HF away into something else (maybe not with the name of a publicly traded blockchain company and a CIA program)