If it requires a phone number to signup, then I don't think it is practically "free". 😔 If it requires a Twitter account to join, I don't think it is easy. 😟 #Ecency requires just an email address, where everyone uses several of them for personal, work/school, gaming, junk, etc. 🤔
I'm sorry that I disagree. 😰
At least, we can create a new Hive account using #Ecency by providing just an email address and then do whatever we want with it (such as posting and curating on #LeoFinance). 😅