You nailed it. However, Marketing and branding gets to be sloppy in a plutocratic world called Hive and Steem where large stake holders can play games and can careless about platform development or are disconnected from simple concepts like discussed in this post.
The concept of communities and Hive as a 'censorship resistant' platform becomes silly when no matter what community your in a large stake holder can flag ya and discourage further content creation and growth. Oftentimes this is done without even a comment and to quality content creators with large audiences coming from youtube or even well written posts just for political reasons.
While framing our perceptions into positive wording when vocalizing them is important, 'framing' can easily be looked at as a way to dress up a ugly reality just to sell a product.
I'm hopeful that over time, these things will resolve themselves. There are enough good content creators here that if things were to get too bad, they have been blessed with the talent to plant their flag in more fertile soil.
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I suppose. But there certainly is a group of people here on Hive that has been traveling around from platforms to platform since the late 90s with message boards. So still a cool way to connect with og online community members and get recognized as newer platforms emerge or ideally as Hive.io grows positively with the currency itself.