You call Hive centralized, yet fail to mention what is happening on Steem now that Sun Yuchen has centralized governance in his person: massive censorship, $300+ downvotes, and zero ability of the community to influence governance.

When you voted for his socks for witness, that's what you voted for. That's what you got. Hive was a rejection of that governance, and since you voted to centralize governance on Steem, Hive didn't offer you free tokens to use on Hive to use to try to centralize governance here.

I don't think that's an unreasonable position for Hive to take. Why does Hive owe anyone tokens? What did you do to earn Hive tokens? I didn't earn my Hive tokens - except as those that airdropped them to me reckoned I had.

I posted on Steem my recommendation to you to pick a side and stop trying to extort the community, warning that would do you harm. I didn't even recommend you pick the side of those now on Hive. I just recommended you pick a side.

Here you are now, having failed to take my recommendation. I hate to say I told you so, but I sure as hell told you so, and you chose to try to play both sides against the middle, pissing everyone off, and gaining no allies by extorting them. Today you have no tokens airdropped from the Hive community you tried to extort and who left you to your Steem, now controlled by Sun Yuchen. How grateful is Sun Yuchen? Is he now ending downvotes? No?

I'm not surprised, and I don't think you are either. Your protestations are disingenuous today because you were absolutely aware that you were extorting the Steem community and Sun Yuchen by voting for both sides of the hostile takeover attempt, and now you reap the fruits you have sown. Don't complain if your blackmail victims aren't giving you free stuff now. It's really like begging, and when you have a mechanism in the HPS system to make a case for a free airdrop, begging does not inspire expectation of responsible and productive contributions from you. It's like holding up a sign that says 'wil work for food' but when someone offers you a meal for some work you turn it down.

We're here because we want to be here, and if you want to run a witness, earn tokens, buy tokens, submit HPS proposal for free airdrop tokens, you're free to do that. So am I. That's not centralization.

That's freedom.