Considering that the main bloat of the chain is english language text it damn well better compress. And considering that it didn't start making a blog until, what was it, 2018? and a tiny userbase, it won't be as big as bitcoin.

Lightning isn't providing the forum, it's just payment rails. This application is just a lightning wallet with a forum attached.

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Ipfs fails because it doesn't provide any way to incentivise pinning. We're working on that. 

The storage size of Hive just dropped by half with better compression. It's currently smaller than Bitcoin. 

A witness node runs fine on a $50 per month server and positions in the top 50 more than cover that cost.

Api servers which web front ends need are heavier but it's becoming easier to run modular parts of this infrastructure for specific apps. 

I don't think Hive is the future for high frequency small payments as I'm doing on Lightning but it provides many things that lightning can't and shouldn't be trying. 
