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I've been here for 8 years. It's not nasty for the most part but you have a couple of big ego's with big stake who like to dictate to others. People just get sensitive about money. I've seen a lot worse on every other social platform that i've ever joined. Hive has been the nicest and most supportive.

You can ignore thebad accounts and keep building anyway until you outgrow them.

HW are the biggest issue as they drive off smaller users for silly issues. I've tried to get them defunded before but some of the big stakeholders get more worried about the few pennies they are losing form the reward pool than the tens of thousands paid out to drive them away. Madness in my opinion but i haven't gotten big enough to effect the changes myself yet.

Layer two apps are the real solution. Just build great projects onto Hive's tech.
The devs are top quality here.

So build your project away from the main hive reward pool and Hive powered influence.

Leo is built on hive using it's best features but their token works independently of the hive whales. Still earn hive rewards but the users don't see any of this stuff.