"...they agree that based on the consensus of the vote, they will follow the leader who won."

I think this is why you keep feeling the vote was unfairly used to exclude people from the airdrop. In a democracy of people necessarily dependent on the vote because the polity involved is a geographic region in which they reside, that is the reality of voting.

Blockchains and social media platforms are absolutely different. No one has to agree to abide by the majority vote at all. Not accepting the vote does not force them to rebel against the polity that rules their homeland.

They're not forced to participate at all. It is completely different than voting for a geographical government because you can just join Flote, or Gab, or Facehugger...er, Fakebook if you don't like Hive.

Hive didn't owe any of us airdrops, and however they determined how to airdrop tokens or not do so was entirely at their option. No one has to agree or disagree at all, and can just go about their lives utterly ignoring what Hive did completey unaffected.

You can't do that voting for Governor of Vermont. If you can't abide the majority decision, you either leave or rebel. You have to abide by the majority decision to continue to participate in the polity, and leaving the polity is a major upheaval of your life.

This difference is one of the greatest advances in human political technology that has ever been achieved IMHO. It will produce myriad blockchains, not one to rule all humanity. Government will forever be less oppressive in that world to come where one person living in a home can be part of a completely different polity than another living in the same home.

Truly voluntary government is in the offing, and no one has any right to airdrops from any of them, nor will be forced to participate in any of them. China's forced Social Credit system is the penultimate geographically based polity merely implemented online. It is not at all such a voluntary polity, and won't long exist IMHO, as preferable options arise in the future, and people unwilling to abide by that barbaric oppression will simply join competing polties they want to.

No one has to join Hive, or abide by it's policies.