Hive seems like it may have been slightly better than steemit.  I think that is partially due to all the tools and changes that were developed and learned on steemit while it was spiraling further and further into a financially centralized oligarchy still hoping people bought into the decentralized dream.

I left steemit because I got tired of seeing the downvotes.  I wasn't even a target but I am not that kind of a hypocrite.  I didn't like seeing it being done to other people with no SANE reason with respect to the stated mission statement.  I finally had enough.

I came to Hive a couple of years later and did a post.  I was warm heartedly welcomed and told I was missed.  I began writing again, though nowhere near as much as I did on Steemit.

I began to see specters of that cancer that is hidden in the malicious downvote...

I too have hope for #vyb though it will be a tough road to travel.   Can the layer 2 token hold its own when intrinsically still shackled to the centralized layer 1 financial oligarchy?