I powered down my Hive to just over 200HP as well. Not for the reasons you did. I needed the extra money for a bit. In that time I kept powering up POB and other Layer 2 tokens. Though I do agree with you. For now I'll probably let my hive grow every so often and then will power it down to where it is here. I will be focusing on #pob and #vyb myself and posting in places like #informationwars and #deepdives (when I think I did a deep dive). I am hopeful for #vyb. In my opinion it is the centralization of power followed by downvoting that made steemit/steem unattractive in the long run. I do see the same thing happening here. Hell I had someone downvote my post where all I was talking about was that my dog of 12 years just died in my arms and I was heartbroken.
I'm with you here. Hopefully #vyb works out.
Yes i saw that, condolences about your dog, and all the best for xmas.
Hive is an insider club that we are not part of, but vyb could make this corrupt blockchain an honest platform yet