With the upcoming vote decay for witnesses, I think that will help a lot on the take-over control, but it is something we simply wont know for sure until the process is in place and then someone tries to step in and control, it can happen pretty easy, because people like money and will take any bribe to give control to one person.
People seem to have to deal with less ridicule for their outlier beliefs on Hive than in other media. Flat Earth believers do not need to worry so much about troll activity, even bernie has stopped harassing them. Political points of view are very easy to see on Hive and no one side is really going after the other side so much. Vaxers and anti-vaxers are both expressing their opinions and not getting nor giving a lot of down votes to each other.
Not everyone wants to rock the boat, but will if the need is there, you are a pretty good example of that, how many different people/groups have tried to bash you into oblivion for your views, yet, still you are here letting them know and others that you can not be down voted into submission.
There are going to be cliques all across Hive, those that have had any amount of time will pretty much hang and see those that were around when they first started. Those that are new are going to find and see the most active people and have a tendency to follow them and to follow those that joined about the same time as they did. Advantage early adopters, but still leaves room for new people to grow and make a name for themselves.
There are so many people and post now that it is hard to keep up, I sometimes look at the all post page and see account reps from 25 to 80 and lots of 40-50 accounts, so a lot of new users, I myself just seem to keep with my initial group I found and the new ones I just add to various list to look at when i have a bit more time.
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