Hivewatchers has been instrumental in the "no fun allowed" attitude on Hive. I'm not sure what the solution is to fix this, but long form sourced content is antithetical to social media fun.

I think the problem fundamentally is Hive tries to be too much, and has no real identity, so it's a mediocre blogging site, a shit social media site, and honestly the reward pool just makes everyone fight all the time.