Honestly, I am not a big fan of 'general' communities until we get rid of rewards on layer one. They end up just being a second reward token with little real meaning instead of a community you can call home.

That being said, I do appreciate they give Hive users another thing to login for and participate in.

The lack of downvotes is a big concern of mine with VYB. It is left to one or two people to decide who earns rewards or not making it even more centralized than a typical tribe. The whole premise of this was to prevent "malcious downvotes" which is extremely rare and there is likely one "malicious downvote" for every 10,0000 shitty upvotes, just look at trending at certain times of day or at all the automated reports getting $20-200/day.

Full disclosure, I honestly don't even pay attention to POB or now VYB, I just assume most posts will use both tags as there is no reason not to, so I typically don't even know if a post is POB or VYB unless it is meta like this one. There is no reason to use their front ends as they offer nothing PeakD doesn't do better and the POB penalty for not using the site is actually less than the penalty to use the site.

As a Hive user, neither can ever offer me anything I can't get elsewhere besides "more rewards". For either really change the game they need to onboard from outside Hive better than anyone else. Even very successful projects have yet to do any real amount of onboarding. Both communities could be a great entry point for outside users who haven't used Hive in the past or want a gentle introduction to crypto (something Hive has done for many people).

While I am not a big fan of either specifically, that doesn't mean I am against them in any way. I am happy to see more communities pop up on Hive, let's get 1000 more. A community for everyone is a community for no one. Unless a lot of effort is made to make the community unique and a place people can feel home, it ends up boiling down to just some extra rewards you can get on your posts.