Thanks for your submission. I agree that a lot is been done work to improve hive's infrastructure. There is no denying that because I have seen and read about those changes. How these changes are communicated isn't effective. There are people on this change who don't even know who Blocktrades is, this goes to buttress my point about Hive's PR.
Also as much as we want to build slowly, we should not forget that there is competition out there. Decentralized social media is the new meta and many blockchains are jumping on it. We need to occur in this space because we provide the most value to end users. We have the best product in the market currently but we are not doing well enough to promote it. I understand we are building, but we can do that with thousands of active users, we have the incentives to keep them active and testing, providing the much-needed feedback we need to improve. Two truths can co-exist.
I will support an initiative geared towards promoting Hive. I am active member if the community and I support projects on and off chain. So I am not on some smear campaign against Hive.
About the leofinance proposal. Yes, we can talk about what Hive can or cannot afford to fund. I do not think leofinance is asking for too much esp when I compare their proposal to some of the already funded projects.