RE: Many witnesses have now turned off their witness server and left Steem
Hi Xpilar, it is a sad state of affairs. The original top 20 witnesses tried their best to reason with Justin but nothing came of it, just empty promises and then further acts of centralisation and censorship using their website steemit.com. Witnesses who disabled themselves see no hope left for Steem and have moved on to hive. I remain active in the hope that some miracle may happen and Justin leaves Steem or someone buys him out, my company BuildTeam also still runs the dlease.io leasing service on Steem and now on Hive so I have an interest in our customers here.
The orange shaded witnesses are fake witnesses run by Justin, the yellow shaded ones are supposedly human witnesses but are voted in by Justin's stake so in a way are bought.
I'm really not sure the future of Steem, some people may not mind that Justin controls everything, but eventually the SEC will deem Steem to be a security if that is the case and will be bad for everyone. I'm not sure what Justin wants, he just wants to be in control no matter the cost, I have never seen anything like this.
Hi @thecryptodrive
Thank you for your feedback.
We want to fight for the faith in Steem has
You have my witness support from me and from my team
Can you name us some witnesses you think we should support.
It's time to see where we go and what we can do. This is where we will stay
Hi @xpilar, I can recommend @someguy123, @aggroed, @drakos, @ocd-witness, @curie, @timcliff, @stoodkev, @actifit, @liondani, @jesta, @pfunk, @neoxian, @busy.witness, @firepower, @jackmiller, @coingecko, @klye, @quochuy, @enginewitty, @patrice and myself @thecryptodrive. As far as I know all these are either neutral or at least have no ill intent towards Steem.
I have no ill will towards STEEM, but I cannot support Steemit Inc. unless they voluntarily remove themselves from governance permanently. I see no point in splitting my limited time between HIVE and STEEM.
The update to their ToS tells me that censorship on steemit.com will be the norm when there is any opposition. I can't in good conscious recommended steem to anyone.
I agree, until Justin is uprooted from here we simply can’t in good faith steer people towards Steem.
Thank you @thecryptodrive
Let's try to get them to come here to comment.
So others also may get to know some of them to vote for them.
I feel that it is appropriate to do so now
I'll change my comment to tag them, but to be honest they all tried to fight for Steem and we lost, so unless some big investor comes from outside and challenges Justin I can't see how we can retake Steem.