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RE: [Steemit] A recap of the current situation
I need to say this because I have huge respect for you and love you Jay. I have worked along side with you, and know you to be an honest person, and of high integrity.
I just can’t understand how you can keep defending evil corrupt person that is Justin Sun. He has made so many bad things already that no sane person would do.
I love you Jay. You are my friend, and will continue to be. But you are dead wrong on this. Give it some thought. No politics. Just honest thought, for yourself.
Defend the people. Not a rich and spoiled egomaniac.
Stay safe and healthy.
Hi @geekgirl, thanks for stopping by!
I do respect you and really appreciate always your direct and very clear voice as a friend.
I had a lot of sleepless nights and have been talking to a lot of people in the last couple of days to prevent the fork itself, but I guess my influence was not good enough.
I agree that a lot of people have moved to the new blockchain, that I care a lot, but I don't think that I will have a chance there as my voice would be nullified. I had been already attacked when I predicted the outcome of a possible chain split at Steem.
Similar to other users that have NOT been speaking the same voice as it is requested at the new blockchain.
Let us assume I will write a post (not at Steem) on the new blockchain to explain logically what is wrong with their behavior and why they are against their own ideology. I would not even get any support from the current KR community, as their stake has been nullified and could wait either to be ignored or downvoted from whales (which has been already a normal procedure before the split).
Sure, the content itself is decentralized on the blockchain and always visible, but we have to think about it that content visibility is NOT about decentralization but about visibility itself on each condenser. And all condensers for Steem or the split blockchain are centralized and don't need to follow any rule of decentralization. That is the reason we have the blockchain and can use separate condensers that can show explicit content.
So here again we have visibility as the key and not decentralization. Because if my content is not visible, because other forces can, might, will control the visibility, I have no use of decentralization, because my content is still not visible on the place where I would have the biggest chance of being seen. Should be one of the reasons why most witnesses have closed their Steem witness, as they have seen they might have also no chance for visibility on the Steemit condenser level anymore. They still would have it on Steempeak or peakd, which they would prefer and would be no problem, but that is the point where we realize that visibility, crossed with Domain ranking and power , is indeed a fact that people do care about.
If we would really care only about decentralization, it would not matter, because a domain can always be closed, sued, shut down from government, etc. But not the blockchain, as long as we have enough nodes running it. Just open a new condenser (which is anyhow open source) and start an xyz domain and your content is there. Steemkr, formerly busy.org, still Steempeak are examples of that. Users can just easily deny to use the condenser and choose something else. It should not be a reason to deny a blockchain, only because of that reason. (And yes, I do know that is not the only reason, but just the last trigger)
I am not directly defending Justin Sun. From the beginning, I am trying to keep this blockchain alive and fighting for it. Trying to listen to both sides and find some common ground, which had not been successful by the way. Trying to do it while being against some opinion of the former witness majority I have also as consequence lost the possibility and credibility in their view to do anything else, as I would not be able to place my opinion a brand new blockchain due to fear of violent voices, mocking and mobbing, downvoting and due to a selective distribution of the new token, nonexisting stake. Happy decentralized blockchain world. Don't exactly understand the difference of the result of what is happening on Steemit and on the new blockchain.
Yes, we should defend the people, but having a different opinion made me on the new blockchain, not their people. :) So I am defending my people on this blockchain, and I definitely will.
Keep safe and healthy from any virus, because in the real world there are many more important things going on than this.
xoxo, Jay
Despite everything, here’s hoping you will submit an airdrop proposal when those are ready. Many in the community do not agree with the selective airdrop and many will find support when they launch their proposal. I hope you will be along those.
On a personal level, this whole show has been one of vindictive reactive move, a never-ending escalation. I am not yet convinced the escalation will end soon(ish). As a user, stakeholder so far I have mostly felt that my options were “can’t win” or “lose”.
While I guess I may soon get to it, I haven’t posted anything yet since the split became an obvious fact. Staying on the fence, being across both sides is being made more difficult every day because due to the centralized nature now I think some semantic arguments fall in the water and there is effective censorship happening here (If argued well, I also support that the airdrop was censorship but I haven’t seen anyone make the valid censorship argumentation yet).
I’m torn, have constant ambiguous feelings over all and generally feel pretty lost in everything.
It’s all been quite the “excremental show” and I am always wondering ever more if our human culture, one driven with money at heart of it, is mature enough to make platforms like this work. Anarchy culture, born on socialist principles, is often not understood and for many the name alone is a deterrent. As we all know education is slow, costly, and apparently easily forgotten or rejected too.
Stay strong, stay healthy, and keep doing what you do... I am not sure I will continue to observe the chain for a long time but whenever I do or have a quick look, I hope to see a budding and thriving community. And here’s hoping many of you guys still come over nevertheless, and that not just to request a power down. 🤘
PS: One thing I would want to highlight though - two in fact - is to lobby for further decentralization as right now STEEM and SBD may be securities. Additionally, if funds are frozen or moved to the DAO - or nulled - the currently centralized operation of STEEM would effectively put Steemit Inc at legal risk (or Tron Foundation SF, whoever is on the company papers in Delaware).
I agree with @fknmayhem's comment. Proposal for the airdrops should be made. Maybe people can unite around it as a community and make a proposal. I have seen many expressing opinions in support of airdrop for those users who were excluded.
I doubt your voice will be silenced on Hive. You have many friends there. I don't think people will allow that to happen. This drama has been too much for everybody. Hopefully, we can start fresh and move towards better future together.