The platform broke through in Spring 2017. DV's killed it, because that threatened to distribute stake and end the plutocracy that has governed the platform since a couple dozen users mined the majority of stake in 2016. There have been minor changes over time in that oligarchy, but the plutocracy continues to maintain the majority of stake by funding HW to continue to flag users off the platform to this day.

DV's concentrate stake and perpetuate the plutocratic control of Hive. Now the millions of accounts claimed and accumulated by the substantially staked are being automated with AI. These flaws are features for the plutocracy, but they prevent Hive from rising to dominate the social media industry that has overtaken all other industries to become the largest sector of the global financial market because at the same time Hive has earned the lowest user retention of all social media platforms.

DV's have driven 99.99% of new users away, and this is because that taxation is theft. That is why Hive has lower user retention than egregiously censored Web2 platforms. The crushed hopes of Hive users are worse than the absence of hope of users of Web2 platforms. AI doesn't have hopes and doesn't care. AI socks will turn Hive into a parody of social media, bots talking to bots, and the owners of those accounts will eventually sell and float off into the sunset with @ned - after they finish mining the DHF for that ~$20M with Valueplan fraud and kickbacks.

All this can be resolved with code at anytime.