Why I’ve Lost Any Hope Hive Has a Bright Future I’m Saying This Because I Care, Not Because I’m Bitter! I Plan On Posting And Still Being Active Part Time, I Love Many Here! But This Must Be Said!

Why I’ve Lost Any Hope Hive Has a Bright Future I’m Saying This Because I Care, Not Because I’m Bitter! I Plan On Posting And Still Being Active Part Time, I Love Many Here! But This Must Be Said!

Hive is drifting into the same trap that killed Steemit, and too many people are pretending not to see it. Large whales keep voting the same accounts and DHF proposals with zero transparency, while a growing percentage of smaller accounts survive almost entirely on delegation-based bot votes. Roughly 75 percent of visible rewards are effectively bought, either through paid subscriptions or locked-up Hive delegations.

This has created a culture where posting isn’t about ideas or interaction. It’s about obligation. Max out a 2,500 Hive delegation, post daily, collect your vote. That’s the deal. You can post two sentences and get paid. Engagement is optional. Meaning is irrelevant. We’ve already seen how this ends.

Steemit proved this model doesn’t work. People powered up large amounts, delegated for votes, and chased daily rewards while real activity died. Prices collapsed harder than any rewards ever made up for. The only thing that grew was the illusion of value under each post. Hive is not there yet, but the rhyme is getting louder.

What makes this worse is the refusal to admit reality. Activity is bleeding. The DHF is full of waste and circular funding. Yet the community narrative insists Hive is growing and thriving. It isn’t. Pretending otherwise only accelerates the decline.

Then there’s the fantasy surrounding HBD. Claims that it will become a dominant stablecoin or be adopted by Bitcoin infrastructure are not optimism, they’re delusion. Algorithmic pegs already failed. The market chose centralized, asset-backed stablecoins. That decision is over.

Hive doesn’t need cheerleading. It needs honesty. It needs whales and devs willing to admit the current model isn’t working and that growth isn’t happening. Without that, there is no course correction.

I care about a lot of people here. That’s exactly why I’m done pretending. Hive needs a reckoning, not another layer of bots, narratives, or forced optimism.