For the past 2 1/2 years, I've been devoted to Steem. But seemingly, this doesn't matter.
@justinsunsteemit, just took it into his own hands to vote in 20 own witnesses, backed by Binance & Huobi, with a statement that the SF 222 was malicious.
I fully disagree about the SF being malicious.
It was an attempt to uphold Steemit Inc (now owned by Tron) on their words & social contracts, they've given me and many other developers, entrepreneurs and Steem enthusiasts.
@ned & Steemit Inc. have proven that they were incapable of getting shit done and left it to their community to bring value to their project.
And when we, the community, finally thought, we'd see light at the end of the tunnel, we're being brought back into 2016. A Steem which is being controlled by a single entity.
I don't think of it as an absolutely negative thing, but based on the past 4 years, this is a major punch in the face.
Why did the community spent years on marketing & improving Steem, just for the useless founder to get a nice payday?
Steem would be nothing without its community of developers, entrepreneurs & creators.
Do you really think that Steem wouldn't have tanked far more and lost far more users, if projects like SteemMonsters wouldn't have kept people around, on Steem?
Look, I have nothing against Justin Sun (I was actually quite optimistic of finally Steem getting the change it needed) and I've always disagreed with forking out anyones stake (forking !== freezing).
But I also disagree with how we, the community contributors, are being treated.
So, for now, I've shutdown SteemApps.com and Smartsteem.com.
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This argument is what every open source programmer could say about Amazon and other big box companies using their free and open software to make millions... Yet somehow, it's not always the case.
We build tools then toys because we love the sandbox
The capitalizing on open source developers hard work is an ongoing battle in the open source world,..
and well, from a philisophical standpoint, it's a losing one.
If you didn't want something to happen to the toy, you shouldn't have put the toy on public display
People like to break things others have made, sometimes it's to make it better, sometimes it's more malicious.... Who's to say, we aren't in their mind, we must wait until we've calmed down, and ask the 2 yr old, why they did what they did. It's that simple....
Investigation of facts, not assumptions. Also, knowing history is important.
Idk, I'm as shook as you honestly, but trying to be mindful of the past all the while.
The "problem" is it's his right as an owner and there's not much you can change about that. The fact is it is not realized yet and there was a meeting planned. Instead, he became a hostile welcome and motion of distrust.
Ned might have done nothing but that is not Justin his mistake, neither the fact ned filled his pockets, let Steemit bleeding and sold it.
I wonder what you would have done if you were the new owner, you received this frozen hostile welcome. I understand people are disappointed, angry, afraid etc but you can not blame @justinsunsteemit for it. He didn't start a war with an announcement only and didn't ruin Steemit either. Those who visited Steem(it) daily, wrote and commented are punished most. I hope something good, preferable better comes out of it.
I never saw an option to swap Steem to Tron. Is this done automatically?
If so Tron can be changed against Steem again if not here somewhere else.
I hope we all will, especially the small fish, lose everything.
I wish you luck here or elsewhere. Thanks for your answer. 💕
It's your right to shutdown what is yours, take your money and run, invest in something else or buy beer and chocolate.
You can not blame @justinsunsteemit for the mess others made out of this platform nor for you not getting what you want or expected.
@nathanmars and many tried hard to make something good out of this platform. Not only those who developped an app, promoted Steem but especially all those writers who decided to stay, to keep writing although they do not have most benefit from it, are hardly noticed.
That soft fork was a dirty trick. You wouldn't like me to frozen your banksaccount etc either just because I fear you will get me or kick you out.
If a business is sold you know changes will be made and heads will roll/cut off.
It was your free choice to invest in this sinking ship, weeks ago a certain group here already knew Steemit would be sold, and it was my choice too to stay.
I will stay and see what @justinsunsteemit makes out of it. He has my trust, more as @ned had.
The witnesses with their soft fork created this situation. That's how I see it. They told Justin exactly what their fear was, what they would do and thought they could get away with it.
You can be disappointed because with your help you filled someone else's bankaccount but you knew that was the case, you know this platform way better as I and most steemians do.
I wish you luck with whatever you do or go.
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Unfortunately, I'm not a mind reader or able to predict the future.
What you're suggesting is not a huge stretch. Consider, only about 0.000035% of users are whales (was using older numbers I found, but most recent results I could find, but less than 40 users).
The main point was that the platform was always about making profits, more than creating a platform that could attract users and fulfill on the promise of what the platform could deliver. If I was wrong, the usability issues would have been addressed, the issues of manipulating the system would have been blocked, and the focus of expansion would have been on improving systems deepening the functionality instead of spreading wide across a series of 'dapps' most of which are varying degrees of functional.
The results are pretty clear (when we can find metrics) that the platform has been on a downward spiral, fewer users, fewer comments, fewer posts, fewer rewards. I feel bad for anyone who is more invested in the platform than as a free hosting service for a blog.
