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Not sure where did you get the "against" 🤔

Till recently there was no good open system to power short form content on Hive. This changed thanks to HAF and HafSQL (by @mahdiyari). We have been able to build this whole system without a separate database nor a dedicated backend.

I don't remember them being against short form.

Yep, totally.

It was just technically tricky to implement everything we wanted in a short form content system relying on a fully open protocol.