Absolutely agree with all of that.
The social login update from VSC is a huge step, once new users can just sign in with Gmail or Discord instead of juggling 5 keys, we might actually keep more than 10% of them. That’s been a silent killer for onboarding for years.
And yeah, bringing in the Mastodon / Bluesky crowd makes a ton of sense. They’re already decentralization-pilled, just need to see Hive as more than “Reddit with crypto.” If even one of those early influencers migrated here and brought their audience, it could snowball fast.
And I really like your last point. Hive needs to stop acting like an app store and lean into what makes us different: ownership, community, and sovereignty in content. Games, NFTs, DeFi, those are cool side quests, but the core identity has always been social.
Let’s build around that and stop trying to be everything at once. Appreciate your comment fr.
There is a lot of advertising happening through the Q3 Value Plan Proposal.
Value Plan Q3 2025 Proposal