It's All Ruined
I'm so sad as I write this. I've put four years of work into this place, created content, competitions, tried to encourage user engagement, and now I feel it's all ruined.
One of my main points about Steemit was the amount of confusion that a new (non crypto) user felt upon discovering Steemit and its various clones. Because I know that when people are confused, they don't buy into what ever is confusing them.
Now we have Hive as well, which in itself is really confusing, it has just as many clones and to top it off is named after an already popular site, so when you google Hive, or Hive blog, something entirely different pops up.
Confusion, confusion, and more
CONFUSION!
I just feel like everything's ruined now, I'm so depressed, I had high hopes for Steemit, but ever since Dan was forced out, things started to go downhill, and now we're at the bottom.
I can't even be bothered to write (apart from this of course), I've had two articles sitting there waiting to be finished for weeks now. But I just can't be bothered.
They say it's all about the community, but I feel like the community has broken, through greed and manipulation.
Both sides in this lame war have not covered themselves with glory, quite the opposite in fact.
Maybe I'll feel differently after some time, but I don't know...
Anyway, this isn't a rage quit, it's just me expressing sadness for the way things have turned out. Maybe Justin and the former top witnesses are happy, those two groups have what they want, total control over the respective blockchains, leaving us to fight over the scraps.
Hopefully I'm wrong, but I can't see how the two sites can survive...
I guess just, watch this space.
See you around.
Maybe.
Hive will be what Steem could have been and more distributed and therefor more decentralized. It is the continuation of the original spirit of Steem.
That is why I am selling all my Steem and have moved to Hive. Im only hear to upvote hard working dedicated people like yourself so they can earn more Steem and sell more Steem.
It's a shame to see the community fall out. Steem was never perfect and Hive won't be either, but Steemit have really lost the plot, along with their developers. I put a lot of effort onto recruiting people to Steem and now have to explain that they should use Hive instead. Some will not bother. There is always hope as long as we have people creating content and apps, but it will take time to recover from the disruption. That's very frustrating, but we still have a good community who moved to Hive and I enjoy hanging out with them. For many of us it's not just about the rewards.
Obviously those who did not get Hive tokens will feel aggrieved and call people names. I just wonder how they can stand by Justin when his company has done what he criticised others for. Let's not pretend that Steemit don't control what the new witnesses do.
They say it's all about the community, but I feel like the community has broken, through greed and manipulation.
Oligarchical PR to keep the minions typing. It was never about community, apart from those in the community.
Those in the community, were offered bait (decentralized? lmfao) and the majority bought it, hook line and sinker.
Oligarchical structures, are gonna oligarch...
It's nice knowing I never gave a shit
lol - I did!!!!!!! (back in the day before I grasped it).
Then I didn't, (in regards to rewards).
Paradoxically, I then started to make profit from the steem! (using my steem money off platform and doing other things with it).
Agreed friend 😔
Yes, it's shit.
I am grateful for your support of my posts. Hopefully, you can join us in Whaleshares where the true vision of Steemit as we wish it to be without the circle-jerking greed is being kindled by its community.