I don't have all the answers, but I still believe Hive has a lot to offer and I will keep promoting it as an alternative to corporate platforms (that I try to avoid).

This is why I was thinking Leo or one of the other communities that are built upon hive might be a more appropriate comparison. There seems to be a bunch dropped out which I guess is due to the low HIVE value, but niches are still here, and with less of a crypto emphasis perhaps they can grow organically through interest rather than income?

Decentralization is another benefit, but as we have seen with Mastodon and Bluesky, it has been the content creators in the end who attracted the people and not the tech :)