Well, I think I can change your mind if we undertake a forthright discussion. I'm willing to have that conversation with you at your convenience. Another issue is that I understand taxation as racketeering, basically theft of money under threat of violence as employed by government, little different than paying protection money to mobsters so they won't burn down your store, or to muggers so they don't stab you in a dark alley. Many people see DV's as theft, and it isn't the threat of violence, because online platforms aren't potential of physical interactions. It is the theft of rewards that angers people, not disagreement or a thumbs down icon below their post.

I don't know how else to characterize DV's, quite honestly.

"I don’t think people should only be here for the rewards."

I could not more agree with you. I am here for the ferment of ideas in a community that values free speech highly. However, Hive presents a basic premise of communities so intent being able to directly pay authors for their work, that then is potential to utterly leave centralized platforms and the advertising propaganda machine in the dust of decentralized discussion of policy. I saw hundreds of successful content creators come here after April 2017 (before the fork) and was aghast when that massive influx of folks seeking to make this new model of social media succeed was ubiquitously flagged off the platform with myriad insipid excuses.

These events were fundamental to the formation of my understand of DV's as both censorship and taxation, and I would be happy to provide references you could consult to ascertain why these influencers left the platform. When you have the time and interest I will be glad to see if we can't find ways to make Hive the success it should be. I'd love nothing more than to shuffle off this mortal coil knowing Hive was taking over the world as millions and billions of ordinary people dumped censorious financially greedy web2 social media platforms and came here to take control of their words, and their governments.