You can't be banned from Hive unless the witnesses collectively blacklist you, but that is very rare.
I'm a pragmatist rather than an absolutist. I hardly use Twitter now and won't pay them, but I may want to reach people on there.
Some of the fediverse folk are up themselves. It's the nature of people. I've no inclination to run my own instance and few others would.
I think it depends on your definition of banned. If communities suppress your posts for breaking some of their weeny rules, I'd say that was a form of banning in my book. It's stopping people from seeing something because they don't want the author to be accepted. It may well be contrary to the group objective, posting a picture of a bloke jogging around the park in a car forum, but it's not exactly life-threatening.
See, if I hated Elon that much, I'd close my account or at least not waste my breath moaning because we all know X (Twitter) is only going to get worse in terms of pay-per-view.
I'm surprised. I suppose it all depends on who you hang around with. The very small group of (Internet) friends I have on the Fediverse either put up with me or know my foibles. I never seem to have any trouble, unlike the identi.ca days. I also seem to have a lot of lurkers, people who either don't interact with me or maybe once in a blue moon reach out and yet I can tell they read my stuff by the way they respond.
I have a small group of friends on Hive, and that's nice, but I don't have the same history as the Fediverse, which tends to make me feel more at home hence the reason I spend more time on mastodon.org.uk than Hive. As I've always said: "It's not about the money." that's the mistake people make when they think I'm moaning about rewards, if I cared about money/rewards, I wouldn't spend so much time on the Fediverse where there there are no rewards. Well, actually, that's not true, I am rewarded daily by the friendship and respect.
Communities can set their own rules, but then that's about people rather than what the platform allows. You can get banned on forums and other places. If you were running one I'm sure you'd want to ban people who break your 'weeny' rules.
I don't care enough about Musk to hate him, but I think the guy is an idiot. Whether I continue to use his platform is my choice and I don't have to do what you might. I'm on FB too for similar reasons.
I've not had much grief on Mastodon apart from a few crypto-haters. They are the ones taking an all or nothing stance. There are people there I want to follow. I can't expect them all to join Hive.
Some people are looking into whether Hive could integrate with the Fediverse. That may rock some boats.
Social media is about people as well as technology. We each find what works for us. I don't have time to be active on them all. The engagement I get on Hive has value to me.