HIVE is dead, long live HIVE dapps

Yes, i went with that title. 😂

I just wanted to say that im slowly picking up excitement again for things related to HIVE. "RELATED" is an important word here. Ive pretty much given up on HIVE as having any kind of future beyond simply providing a base that LeoFinance, Splinterlands and 3speak, the 3 dapps with the best potential future, will marginally use.
HIVE is stuck in the mud and i see nothing bright in its future. If i had to guess, even frontends like Peakd will slowly dissociate themselves from the stupid content placement algorithm imposed by defect Steem ideology, and do their own thing.
Not until Blocktrades takes the reins will anything more or significant come from HIVE.
Imo, this is as far as HIVE goes. Sure, the market could pull us back up with the rest of the alts but id say that HIVE is more or less creatively bankrupt and doesnt offer much in terms of competitive ideas, hype potential or innovation on any front. The underlying tech is sound but thats it.

BUT...

There is still hope in HIVE dapps. @splinterlands didnt have to drop STEEM. They could have made a deal with Justin Sun and he would have probably payed them nicely to stick around. They moved to HIVE. Was it nostalgia? Was it a sense of righteousness? Who can say.
But theyre here and theyre going places.

LEO is doing good, i talked about that plenty. :)

3speak will launch their own token. The reason im hyped for @threespeak is because i feel that @theycallmedan (and his team), that has almost a cultish following around him, will do so much better with a cryptocurrency of his own, having more control, then he ever could with HIVE. People trust him and he has what id call an intoxicating level of enthusiasm and drive. I often dont share that enthusiasm, but i do see why its attractive to many people.

Look, i know all of you peddle the idea of decentralization and communal contribution, or whatever. And thats all fine and dandy. Decentralization is good at some level, its good for some things, its good in moderation and knowing where it fits and where it doesnt.

BUT...

They can all say whatever they want but none of these people, not Aggroed, not Khaleelkazi, not Matt would have ever, nor did they ever, approach HIVE or STEEM with the same determination, same love for the project, same level of commitment, same work ethic as they do their own projects they created and are heading.

And that is to be expected. Its their own. Their "baby".

Thats why HIVE dapps have a strong future and i feel HIVE wont achieve much of anything. There is no one leading the pack. All you have is a dilution of responsibility with the guy that should be in charge not wanting to be, in order to stubbornly uphold this dumb narrative of absolute decentralization..
If not him, who? Many of the other witnesses, whales, orcas.... are ex bot owners and/or bot delegators that are now morally grandstanding on the carcass of STEEM when they were in fact STEEMS undertaker.

Long before Justin Sun came along they were parasites that leeched from the platform, diminishing the trust in the platform for users and investors and making STEEM look like a bot ridden hellhole for their short term profits.
Did we all forget that? Thats whose left. Those guys.

Nah...
I dont trust any of them one bit to deliver anything outside leech the reward pool and bitch about other whales curation sniping them.
What i trust is people with drive, a mission and strong ideals.
Guys like i mentioned above.

Thats why...

Long live HIVE dapps.