Really goodbye this time
The latest Steem hardfork that is designed to steal the funds of many users who helped build it up is the last straw. I was posting and commenting here to milk a bit of Steem and taunt Steemit, but the rewards are getting flagged away by their official curation account.
I may vote for Hive users who still post here, but I need to focus my efforts where they are more deserved.
If they change the power down time I may be able to extract my Steem quicker and then Steem is dead to me.
Goodbye.
Do I give a shit what you think? No.
Hi Steve - I live mainly on Mastodon (where I heard about this fracas via Dick Turpin) and I haven't visited Steem in ages.
I find this all rather sad you were (are) a great resource, posting regularly, with interesting content, constantly helping others and an advocate and evangelist for the Steem platform.
But now, it seems you're migrating to something called 'Hive'. Now I know nothing about Hive but after your recent negative experience, I'm a little surprised you're not using your own platform to host all your content and decouple all dependencies on third party providers.
Recent events have ably demonstrated, that a third party simply can not be trusted - with your data, your words, or your 'money'.
All the best - hope you continue to have a presence somewhere.
Ah - researching Hive, things become a little clearer. It appears to be a community led Steem spinoff. By the community for the community so the fact that you are involved is fairly, err, obvious. Good luck with it.
You know I'm into communitising the community. I just don't have time to get into Mastodon as well.
You may want to extract your $40 of Steem whilst it still has some value. I may be able to help with that. It now takes 4 weeks to power down the SP. @dickturpin started doing this, but the Ionomy exchange is not taking Steem any more.
Hey. Good to hear from you.
Hive is a fork of the Steem blockchain that excluded the Steemit stake as that was being a abused by a new owner. You can log in with the same keys you use on Steem https://peakd.com/
Steem is not what it was. One guy, Justin Sun, basically controls it and most of the good people moved to Hive.
I've run my own blogs before, but it's hard to get much engagement. Hive is much more social, even if some people are just after rewards. For what I make it has to be fun. I still think a blockchain based social platform has potential. The fork shows the community can survive a hostile takeover.
Cheers.
I've create autoposts to drain their downvote power. You can schedule them well in advance if you're on steempeak.
I cannot be bothered anymore. I see they wipe out your posts too. Why add value to this junk?
I'm going to look at the script that can change all your posts to link to Hive.
I did that a while back, but then saw I was still getting automatic upvotes over here, so decided to put up some easy stuff just to earn more STEEM to turn into HIVE while the powerdown was in process. Now that I could change my powerdown to only 4 weeks (which I just did) it isn't worth bothering. Just made my last post, teaching people how to use HIVE. See you over there, brother.
The latest incompetence by Steemit is hilarious. They managed to lose the 23m Steem they stole from people!
See you on Hive.