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I abandoned Steem because i thought it was going to be MySpaced (people were already referring to it as Myspace, lol.) When JS saga started, i observed how the ETH artists now perceive Hive to be decentralized (with formation of DAO), so i think Hive has a chance if this one thing is taken care of:
New user onboarding and retention.

I have stayed neutral on both and hold same stakes over multiple acc.
I wish i could share your optimism.
I was excited about hive all of 3 mins before reality hit and realised its just a straight copy of steem. Same people incharge doing? Your guess is as good as mine.
We have 80ish devs and so far we have a piss poor copy of steemworld and some other copies which aint even changed steem to hive on there respective dapps.
The dao will be the downfall of hive around 7 people taking appox 1m in a year how long will that last?
No new devs are being funded. Same click taking obsene amounts for litterly nothing.
Try saying something see what happens.
Welcome to decentralisation yay

https://esteem.app/scam/@heimindanger/hbd-go-brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Most of that is accurate if not all.