I agree with the waste in DAO money for retarded things that cause long term way to much damage with zero benefit.
But i think 3spk and you apps simple needs revenue streams ( more users) and maybe some classic advertisement.
This will bring in good times a lot of money and in bad less ofc. So the management is important.
IMO DAO should fund for maggi deep pools Hive/ HBD, Hive/ BTC, Hive / another stablecoin and so on. Not all at once but that reduces the dependency on exchanges a lot and allows people use Hive as a proxy token to access more pairs (basically what Solana does).
IMO a fundraise ( even if you dont like it) could bring in some cash. Like having a revenue plan and sell a share from that revenue for instant money. Times are bad for this ofc, but also with AI you can leverage a lot of work.
You need to add something on your apps ppl demand and want to watch advertisements or want to pay for it.
Hive has the problem you pay twice for each user ( i say it for years). First time for marketing to get the user, second time to give them the account. Thats why i think with Maggi things could turn around ( and still Soft accounts are needed on main chain to make social better, it could be Pay to play. Instead of pay with RC soft accounts could post and burn hive instead @theycallmedan).
For DAO, i think there needs to be more control mechanism in place like "steps". So a project can be funded in steps. If the first goal works out, the second funding round begins.
That would add a protection layer for waste. Everything else should be really pools and the support of the base chain (no fancy app funding that generates 2 users).
I also think the Inflation from Content itself could be 50% of the current one. Why? It makes no difference. 50% less and 100% higher price is the same for the author and curator in USD but drops the pressure on Inflation.
Hive doesnt need to be deflationary, but reasonable inflation would be more in the low 2%-5% and not 20%+.
Continue printing will destroy longterm incentives holding the coin ( also looks bad from outside tbh).
Since with all political things, nobody feels responsible to do anything, this will show if the social part of hive makes any sense.
HBD needs to get into more hands beyond the base chain, more pairs with stablecoins and easy swaps cross-chain, which generates fees and make it all more sustainable.
The Socialist Idea of hive will fail ( Inflation pays for everything), value needs to be generated beyond that.
No value is like fiat, it loses value in a long run. The good thing is, it can be easy reversed and past actions have close to no impact in the future. So even if we have another 20% more tokens will only shift away power from a few and allow more opinions with stake and power.
A bit offtopic to the post, but those are my opinions around it.
btw the soft accounts with pay to play ( like ETH Wallet like that burns per post or interaction hive) allow scaling and spam fight + value add all at once.
Also adds another layer of privacy to posting ( allows people to submit a post, pay for it and never use the wallet again). Pretty cool IMO