"Hive needs to be an extroverted network."
Yes. I have argued this endlessly. Odysee and Rumble only exist because Youtool content are mirrored there - and because Youtool is so censored. Odysee used to enable people that posted on Youtool to mirror their content to Odysee automagically, but a month or so ago Youtool disabled the API or whatever Odysee was using, and content needed to be manually uploaded to Odysee. That was a disaster for Odysee because several accounts that were popular just didn't bother. Recently Louis Rossmann, The Quartering, and other videos have re-appeared on Odysee, however, and Odysee may be providing an alternative for those influential accounts.
Before Odysee was cut off by Youtool from automagically mirroring Youtool content, it enabled folks to preserve their libraries of content that Youtool can just arbitrarily delete, as recently happened to @meno for telling a story about ants. Clearly, it hurts when your entire body of work is deleted for some honest philosophical difference, and this is the opportunity Hive has always had: to serve as a place where content will never, ever be deleted.
"...either our business model works... or it doesn't and we need to fix it."
If only we could take advantage of that opportunity VSC will create by introducing people to Hive to enable Hive to rise to the top of the social media industry that has become the largest sector of the global financial market. Unfortunately at the same time social media boomed Hive earned the dubious distinction of having the worst user retention of all social media platforms because of unrestrained taxation that drove people off the platform and enabled the whales to retain the majority of stake and rule as unchallenged plutocrats. Maybe when they're done mining the ~$20M DHF using Valueplan as a vector for fraud and kickbacks, they'll follow @ned off into the sunset and allow Hive to rise to dominance it has potential to attain by ending unrestrained theft by taxation. However the millions of socks they have accumulated make it almost certain that won't happen, because they'll just automate them with AI and turn hive into a parody of social media with bots talking to bots, as LEO is now attempting to do by using Taskie to post thousands of AI comments a day.
VSC sounds awesome. Associating it with Hive will afflict it with that stench of censorship and plutocracy the cryptosphere rightly identifies Hive by. At least DV's only apply to author rewards, so there's some potential a non-social media app will be able to avoid them. Here's hoping.
Thanks!