From what I've been seeing to be brutally honest would be the start of something great. Hive right now feels like the startup companies I've worked with over the years. They are that small group of very hard working people looking to expand and grow. Filled with mistakes, learning opportunities and often a hard time figuring out what is going right and sticking to those things that are working right.
We are seeing right now just the start of real development and building which should hopefully expand with more developers and also value and by value I'm going to say it on the business front and that's $ dollars. Dollars matter in all of this. You can work you butt off as much as you want and develop some rather cool things or things you think people should want but at the end of the day if it doesn't drive dollar value and new users then it's a failed project as simple as that.
My hopes are this is the turning point of all of that and we start to build a more supportive ecosystem that is not so hell bent on saying NO ADS, NO REVENUE. Content creators create content on all of these other web2 platforms and bring their audience and that audience then sticks around because of that content because it's generating them revenue. A content creators job is producing content for others to interact with it's their job. So if you can't bring the dollar value into that fold you're going to have one hell of a hard time with any real massive growth. What's awesome about hive and layer 2 on hive is the fact that all of that money goes back to content creators AND users. So here's to hoping we start to see that shift and solid growth on all fronts of hive. I think 3speak is doing a great job in terms of decentralizing things which is no easy task and that does have value in itself but there's also other sides to all of that from other front ends that bring their own value.
I'll be making a post on this sooner or later.
The only way to scale something is if it can pay to scale itself.
Altruism is powerful but it can't grow past a passion project.
Even billionaires can't force networks/companies to scale like that.