Which begs the question: Have you tried @peakd's version of short form content, called SNAPS?
For my money, it's (so far) the most viable/functional/intuitive short form interface in the Hive ecosystem.
I'm familiar with that jarring switch between Hive and other social media... I maintain two groups and two business pages on Facebook, along with attendant twitter-Insta-LinkedIn accounts. It is very strange to go back and forth. Mostly I forget myself "over there" and end up having to delete TL;DR replies before even posting them!
Starting to use it a bit more now. I used threads some on INLEO, and it seems similar. I've been making the time to dive down through comments more on blog posts and long form content.