I can understand your frustration but honestly Hive is not 4 years old.
I came here in March in the middle of the HF from Steem and since that move Hive has been popping. I think the bridging idea isnt trying to ride coat tails, or just about Defi. It is happening with most viable well built projects with solid usecases and protocols. Its not about what Steem didnt do, its about Hive and its unique usecase and benefits becoming more accessible as Web 3 gets closer. It IS going to happen, more than likely faster and more sudden than anyone expects. I dont understand how you can say that Dan is selling hope to a shrinking community. The man is putting his money, reputation, credibility and effort into building Hive into the Hub for decentralized digital society. And the community IS growing and development is growing.
Network effect is slow at first and then all of a sudden.
The centralized platforms are deleting and censoring content more everyday and people are becoming more aware of their options in many aspects of society. Hive is one of the few viable options that will give people an alternative and an entry point at a grass roots level.
We bridge to other chains and their community gets exposure and awareness of the benefits of Hive and the ease of interaction between chains facilitates their use of Hive for its applications without leaving their original community.
Coordination/Interoperability
Do you have any suggestions, reccommendations, ideas, solutions to the problems that make you so cynical?
Isnt that what open source and decentralization are all about.
I agree with your thoughts about investors, that would be great, but I think onboarding new users should be a priority and would go a long way to improving the true decentralization of Hive than some big money getting dumped in and the community treated as customers, Again.
Thanks for the reply
Peace