& become subservient to a highly-censored centralized network? My foot..

Send Hive users away to Twitter? & what do we get in return? A hope of Twitter users becoming Hive users? Really?

This is exactly what you should not do.

There are hundreds of such communities on different platforms that want to do this shuffling with Twitter or other big networks only to unionize with it.

Alright, fine...

Do you really want to market Hive to Twitter's 330 million monthly active users?

Build a Hive based microblogging service or something more unique which is better than Twitter.

Offer it as an alternative to the 330 million monthly active users.