Wow, that's a lot to unpack and respond to. i am glad you had fun on your vocation. these answers are not simple and I can't address them all. I will say this...are you enjoying your time on here? you mentioned wondering if you should move on. If you are genuinely having fun/enjoying yourself then I say stay. If you aren't, maybe take a break,. a longer more scheduled break and see if you miss it. Yeah HIVE is about money but also should be something you enjoy (my opinion). As for the other stuff you mentioned..it's complicated. HIVE is not truly decentralized nor "censorship" free. There are a few accounts that have all the control. It's frankly more of an oligarchy at this point. All it takes is one downvote to negate hundreds or thousands of other upvotes.

Some of these downvotes make sense ie illegal content. copyright violations etc, but so many others are simply some folks don't like certain types of content (though I have yet to see any real consistency. It's more that they allow some folks to have certain content while not allowing others to do the same). Is it really fair that one person or a small group can just downvote a post that is not illegal or violating HIVE TOS and completely negate the rewards? Not only for the author of that post but the (potential)hundreds of other folks who upvoted also lose their earnings. Is that really censorship free or the spirit of decentralized freedom? hell no. Even with other more traditional POS tokens -yes the higher the stake the better rewards but a high stake does not negate the rewards of smaller stakes(users). Though Hive-engine tokens are immune to downvotes taking away rewards which is something to consider.

As for a Hive community..I guess that depends again on what you want to do (does this idea make you happy/motivate you etc). Also can you work around these limitation of HIVE? Not all groups will every fully agree or even get along and that's just reality . That said could you make a community that is open to all and somewhat unites folks-absolutely.

Sorry I don't have much more to say at the moment. but feel free to shoot me a message if you want to chat, bounce off ideas etc.

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