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RE: What is the decentralization in Steem Community ? The more, the better.
There was only one group of witness before, there are two groups of witnesses now.
The more different groups, the more decentralized.
There is no group of witnesses.
Let me repeat: there is no group of witnesses.
You might think that way, because somehow they all agreed on certain subjects, but that's only from the outside.
The witnesses are 20-50 individuals who worked together on governing the chain. Those 20-50 individuals have different world views and opinions on how things should be run. There are often discussions and disagreements on certain subjects. Pretty sure that isn't the case with Justin Sun and his sockpuppets.
Just because you disagree with the consensus that witnesses came up with, shouldn't mean that you can just call witnesses to be a group. Again, we are all individuals.
A group that mostly vote for each other, on each other's posts, and on each others SPS proposals. Not to mention the softfork. That is what he is getting at, and it's more than just his perception. It's the perception of much of the broader community.
Just because they agree on some topics, that doesn't make them a homogenous group. If they couldn't agree on anything, there wouldn't have been any changes since the launch of the chain. They still disagree on many things, and each one makes their own decision based on the information they got, which is why many changes didn't happen.
Now we have someone taking up half of the spots who doesn't know what he's doing, and trying to push changes that would break the system. Those are naturally opposed by all of the witnesses who understand steem. They can't deploy infrastructure changes either though, we're in a lock down now. Instead of preparing to launch SMT, which are basically done.
But keep cheering the "decentralization" of 1 guy taking up 10 spots, just because you can't understand people agreeing on something where you might disagree. It's so much easier for the mind to build a conspiracy theory.
I could not have said it better.