The big stakeholders, witnesses, dApp developers, steem front-end services need to stand together as one. Put differences aside and make a decisive move towards a new era in Steem. Bring something to the comunity and move the whole thing to a off Tron amd co's chain, and back onto a community chain. Leave them their tokens with no other way tonuse it than through steemit.com. and fork everyone who is supporting the takeover amd deadlock out.
It looks like a Steem liberation movement is required, and needs to be done sooner rather than later.
Those who move will need to power down and burn their Steem stake to be active in the new chain.
The longer we all just sit and talk, the less time we have to move.
When people no longer wish to discuss "While many of us have tried to communicate, Eli, Roy, and Justin have made it clear they have no desire to." nothing more will happen, they will run this down to nothing and write it off as a bad investment.
Tend to agree with you @bmj time is now to move, neither side committing to progress after a month.
Let's see if I have that right ... leave this dictatorship of Tron to go to another dictatorship that demands the right to decide where I can hold stake? Gee what could possibly go wrong with that?
Not at all one ductatorship to another. They would have to change the governance (witness voting model) to be more distributed, and make it worth everyone moving to.
It can be done.... but it requires everyone to pull together to beat this deadlock.
if the new one dictates where people can hold stake .. it is a dictatorship ... doesn't matter how wonderful the distribution if is my freedom of choice is infringed
The point is, to effect the change, and take a stand against the current sitution, we need to move as one. We don't want a "sister" token, we want to move, or swap over to the new chain with better protections against a one-man supermajority. Part of the process would be the burning of the old account tokens to acquire the new. The idea is to make the new token the mainstream token by purging as much of the old token as possible... basically burning the house down on the way out... and exchanging one chain for the other. You can start back up on tronsteem with zero later if you want, noone will stop you.
good luck with your theory. Gonna be surprised if many will be interested in having choice removed from the equation. You can start back on one after compliance on the other is still dictatorship. Replacing one tyranny for another doesn't cut it.
What part of this gives you the idea of it being a dictatorship or tyranny?
"Move as one"
"Protections against a one-man supermajority"
The choice here is to unite, design and decide on new set of governance standards together, and move on. Or, we all sit back, do nothing, and hope for the best possible worst case scenario.
At the very least it may just force the hand of the swing voting proxy.token community to pick a side and end the deadlock.
While the price is in the toilet, it me be an opportune time to make a break.
Like I said.. wish you luck with your concept.
I will be far more inclined to follow the concepts reflected in @ats-david's post that entails free choice of being on either chain and letting preference and the markets decide which chain ends up with my attention. Or both if I feel like it without having to give up stake on one to satisfy the dictates of the other. That is freedom not tyranny.
We'll have to agree to disagree.
I don't see any freedom in belonging to two dictatorships. I like @ats-david's idea to move, but the key is "move," and not "split away." People generally only move to something better than where they are, and we do need to move. especially the dApps, web front-ends etc. Not have one foot in each pond.
I stongly believe a clean cut is needed to a better (with greater on-chain freedom and governance) solution, not just another one the same. It would be way too easy to not move. There is freedom to choose to stay with the TRONSTEEM, or move to a better STEEM, with greater on-chain freedoms.
Out of principle, I wouldn't want to keep stake in something I don't agree with the way it was captured from the community, and I wouldn't want anyone who still supports the new owner here to also be on the new "FREESTEEM." If I decide to move, I leave one to go to another. But fomo seems to trump ethics in many places.