I believe the network effects that will carry web 3 have already been formed.

I think you are right about this.

True decentralization is really hard to achieve (anonymous founder or community rebellion), but once achieved is very resiliant.

Hive may well be the seedling that will grow into the entire tree of Web 3.0.

@podping is certainly proving that Hive can generate enormous value as a decentralised central global notification / signaling system with very little resource demands on Hive.