Given Hive is basically just a new home for the disenchanted of Steemit I'm not surprised in the slightest. Many of those who made the change have brought the same baggage and methods with them that they practised on Steemit. The promise of a "Brave new world" and "A new way of doing things" is actually pretty hysterical when you think about it.
Ask yourself these two questions:
- "Why was Hive created?"
- "Why is everyone changing over?
The fact of the matter is Hive was not created because people (Dev's) were fed up with all the bots, sock puppets, parasites and utter garbage on Steemit it was set up simply because Justin Sun bought Steemit. Everyone (well some were) was perfectly happy with Steemit until Justin came along nobody thought it would be a good idea to wipe the slate clean and start afresh until the rise of Justin.
It would be nice if a lot of the unfair practices on Steemit were not replicated on Hive but that's just wishful thinking. I've not been on Hive that long and like most and possibly including yourself was lured to start using the account already created for us by promises of a "Brave new world" even though I knew that was not the reason it was created.
Let's just hope it doesn't end up like Animal Farm?
To be fair, I don't think anyone thought it would be any different. The only difference is Steemit Inc is gone, which does lower the supply significantly, and means we have a new set of developers but that's about it. The underlying platform is still as broken as before, and so far I don't see anyone looking to change that.
All that said, Hive now is worse for curation than Steem before Justin Sun, and that in turn is far worse than it was in 2018. Not to mention, the golden age of curation - mid-2017.
Funny you should say that. Only the other day I commented on how I have more HB than SP and yet my rewards on Steemit are greater than on Hive.
I think this varies from account to account, depending on what your follower base on each platform is like. I tend to get more rewards on Hive than Steem while crossposting the same posts, likely because some people that read and vote for my posts have moved to Hive.
Because no one is doing anything on Steem and everyone is powered down, so there's less competition for rewards.
In that case, I'm staying on there then. I'll clean up in a month! 🤣